JAKARTA: An Indonesian was jailed for five years Monday for a Facebook post deemed offensive to Islam, his lawyer said, the latest conviction under the country's controversial electronic information law. Alnoldy Bahari, 39, was found guilty of spreading hate speech for a post in which he claimed to have experienced God's presence and questioned the faith of other Muslims. The verdict will fuel fears that Indonesia's moderate brand of Islam is coming under threat from increasingly influential radicals. Bahari, from the town of Pandeglang in West Java province, was charged with blasphemy and hate speech in December 2017, after a local leader of the militant Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) complained to police. "This Alnoldy case proves that people who only express their thoughts about a regular situation on Facebook... can be punished by the law.

Source: New Strait Times April 30, 2018 12:22 UTC