Jakarta Globe, April 23, 2013
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Five high
school students in Tolitoli, Central Sulawesi, who recorded themselves dancing
to a Maroon 5 song and praying, have been expelled from school and face time in
juvenile detention for “tainting religion” after the video surfaced on the
Internet.
The five
girls were trying to kill time between an hours-long break from classes in the
afternoon of March 9 when they made the video.
In a long
explanation sent to Detik.com, the headmaster of the school, Muallimin, said he
decided to report the students to the police after consulting with the
Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) and Islamic Defenders Front (FPI).
“The
students were performing Sholat [prayer] movement with dancing while
alternately reciting [the] Koran and turning on ‘One More Night’ music,”
Muallimin said, referring to the Maroon 5 song. “The activity was recorded with
a mobile phone of one of the students and they forced other student to hold the
phone for a duration of five to six minutes.”
The
students have been expelled from school and were forbidden from taking last
week’s high school national exam, which counts for 60 percent of a student’s final
mark to determine whether they will graduate from high school. The expulsion
was approved by the FPI Tolitoli branch head, local Youth and Sports Agency,
Tolitoli Religious Affairs Ministry and the MUI.
The
students were questioned for the first time by police on April 3.
Adj. Comr.
Alhajat, the Tolitoli Police chief of detectives, said that the five students
were charged with blasphemy against religion under article 156 of the Criminal
Code.
“Temporarily
we use this law, but there’s a possibility that we’ll charge them with other
articles during the process,” Alhajat said, as quoted by JPNN.com.
Tolitoli Police
chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Rudy
Mulyanto said that the five have not been detained because they are children,
but the legal proceeding would continue.
Minister of
Education Muhammad Nuh said that the school had reacted disproportionately to
the student’s video.
“Even
students in [juvenile detention] were allowed to join national exam,” Nuh said
on Tuesday, as quoted by Detik.com.
On March
29, a man told his wife, a teacher at the school, the he saw people watching
the video at a market. She later reported the case to the school.
It was not
clear who uploaded the video to YouTube.
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