Indonesian Buddhist Woman Imprisoned for Complaining Mosque Too Loud

Indonesian Buddhist Woman Imprisoned for Complaining Mosque Too Loud
A worker paints the top of a mosque in Indonesia in a file photo. Reuters/Beawiharta
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JAKARTA—An Indonesian court sentenced a Buddhist woman to 18 months in prison for blasphemy on Aug. 21, after she was accused of insulting Islam for complaining that neighborhood mosque was too loud.

Meiliana, a 44-year old ethnic Chinese Buddhist had complained the Muslim call to prayer, repeated five times a day, was being played too loudly at the mosque near her house in North Sumatra.