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The wife of non-active Jakarta governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, Veronica Tan, has read out a letter hand-written by her husband behind bars that explains why he has withdrawn his appeal against a court verdict in which he was sentenced to two years in prison.
Legal experts are showing differences of opinion over the need to revoke the blasphemy articles in Indonesia’s penal code in a debate that has erupted after non-active Jakarta governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama was imprisoned recently for blasphemy.
Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama was surely not born under a lucky star, as less than a month after losing the election he is being forced to become an inmate of the Cipinang detention center in East Jakarta after a court sentenced him to two years in prison for blasphemy.
The now suspended Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama, who was found guilty of blasphemy by the North Jakarta District Court and sentenced to two years imprisonment, is yet another victim of the problematic 1965 Blasphemy Law that has been abused to criminalize people, the Institute for Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR) has said.
