Suzethe made headlines earlier this year after she made a fuss at a mosque in Sentul, Bogor regency, believing that her husband was marrying another woman inside the mosque. She entered the mosque while wearing shoes and accompanied by her pet dog. The incident shocked members of the mosque congregation and netizens who found out about the incident through an amateur video that went viral on social media.

The local police were quick to charge Suzethe with blasphemy following public outcry, despite a preliminary diagnosis that the woman was suffering from schizophrenia.

Firdaus submitted to the panel of judges documents that confirmed the diagnosis, including records of outpatient treatment from psychiatrists at two different hospitals; Marzuki Mahdi Hospital and Bogor Siloam Bogor.

“A month prior to the incident or around May this year, Suzethe kept asking me, ‘you’re planning to marry Eli, aren’t you?’” Firdaus said.

The question came out of the blue, he added, because neither of them knew anyone called Eli in their circle of friends.

He believed that Eli was a figment of Suzethe’s imagination created by her condition.

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