Saturday, August 06, 2005

Indonesia is lenient (with its friends)

Indonesia's Supreme Court has rejected a final appeal from the radical cleric linked to the Bali bombings, upholding his original 30-month sentence. Abu Bakar Ba'asyir was found guilty in March of conspiracy over the 2002 attacks, in which 202 people died.

Thirty years wouldn’t have been enough, but fair is fair:

Corby was sentenced to 20 years in prison in May for smuggling 4.2 kilograms of marijuana onto the Indonesian resort island of Bali.

After all, what else can you expect:

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Indonesia's top Islamic council issued a religious edict on Friday forbidding any liberal interpretation of Islam in the world's most populous Muslim nation. "Religious liberalism is haram (forbidden)," said a fatwa, or doctrine, issued by the Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) and seen by Reuters.

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