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Lombok Mob Targets ‘Deviant’ Sect Over Alcohol, Dress, Music
Fitri | December 06, 2011

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JohnnyCool
3:57pm Dec 16, 2011

Eko said, “we do not yet know for certain what teachings they abide by. Therefore we will question the leader to see whether or not the teaching deviates from Islam.”

The cops police religion? I'd forgotten that.

Isn't what people believe in their own business? Not in this country.

Not sure? You're not alone. Ask the new "Minister for Justice and Human Rights". He also doesn't know - I wonder why and what he's getting paid for?

no-lah
7:23am Dec 8, 2011

Why am I not surprised, locals do what they want. Lombok would like to become a major tourist destination, but with no or little control, complete disregard for law, intollerance, home made police laws and corruption there is little or no chance.


BilboBaggins
9:53am Dec 7, 2011

Intollerance is alive and well in Lombok.

ishtar
10:11pm Dec 6, 2011

When I read about the noise, I thought it was the loudspeakers. lol

@Weegie-Boy: get somewhere more distant if possible... being close the the loudspeakers can be stressing.

Weegie-Boy
1:33pm Dec 6, 2011

"included making loud noise"

Ah, so what was it that woke me up this morning at 3:45am then? Surely not a Mosque in Jakarta, surely not!! Bloody hypocrits... Is OK for them to do it but not anyone else!!


Mataram. Hundreds of villagers in East Lombok have attacked and set alight a hut used by a small group deemed to be a deviant sect, forcing police to evacuate and save the sect leader and 20 of his followers, police said on Monday.

The attack by villagers from Seruni Mumbul on Sunday destroyed the hut, which sat atop a local hill, Pringgabaya subdistrict Police chief Adj. Comr. Eko Mulyadi said.

“The leader of the group that is suspected of being a deviant sect, Khairrudin Ahmad, and 20 of his disciples, were detained for their own safety so that the angry mob does not attack them,” Eko said.

Villagers alleged that the group’s Koranic reading ritual included making loud noise, indecent dress and the consumption of alcoholic beverages.

But, Eko said, “we do not yet know for certain what teachings they abide by. Therefore we will question the leader to see whether or not the teaching deviates from Islam.”

Eko said that on Saturday night villagers demanded that the sect disband or leave the area, prompting an exchange of harsh words between the two sides.

At that time police were able to disband the crowd, but demonstraters returned the next day to destroy the empty hut.

Abu Agna, a resident of Pringgabaya, said that every Thursday evening the sect conducted a ritual where they engaged in Koranic reading while drinking alcohol and listening to flute and gong music.

“Another thing that deviates from Islam is that the women and the men who are not related by family ties mixed” and did not dress according to Islamic codes, Abu said.

He added that the group had conducted meetings over the past two months.

He said that when the group’s leader was taken by the police on Sunday, he was only in his underwear and was clearly drunk, forcing police to actually carry him to the police vehicle that later took him to the subdistrict police station.

Residents, he said, found a number of kris daggers as well as five bottles of fermented palm wine inside the hut before they set it aflame.

Saiful Muslim, head of the West Nusa Tenggara chapter of the Indonesian Council of Ulemas (MUI), said that even though the council could not yet say whether the sect was deviant, he deplored the violence.