"He was not the only victim of Indonesia's blasphemy law, he will likely not be the last one either if the Indonesian government continues to yield to radical Islamists' requests instead of honoring religious freedom for all citizens."
Source/Credit: Baptist Press
By Diana Chandler | January 29, 2019
JAKARTA, Indonesia (BP) -- International religious liberty advocates are praising the early prison release of a former Christian governor in Indonesia, but decrying unjust blasphemy laws that enabled his conviction.
Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, sentenced to two years' imprisonment in May, 2017, was released Jan. 24 from a prison in Depok, West Java, after two remissions reduced his sentence. The ethnic Chinese Christian had been convicted of blasphemy for comments he made during a 2016 reelection campaign for governor, comparable to a U.S. mayoral post.
International Christian Concern (ICC), Human Rights Watch and United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) are among those reacting to his release and calling for the repeal of blasphemy laws in the majority Muslim country.
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