JAKARTA, Dec 29 (NNN-ANTARA) – An Indonesian court, last night, sentenced former Indonesian Youth and Sports Minister, Roy Suryo, to nine months in jail, for spreading hate speech, through his social media account.
Suryo was tried after he re-posted a picture of a Buddhist statue, edited to resemble the face of the country’s president, Joko Widodo.
A Buddhist community protested and reported him to the police, for alleged blasphemy, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, but the former minister was instead convicted of spreading hate speech by the court.
Suryo has apologised to the Buddhist community and said that, he is not the person who doctored the picture.
