Far East and Oceania Muslim Indonesian TikTok Personality Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Pork Video

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A woman has been sentenced to two years in prison over a viral TikTok video she filmed herself eating pork while traveling in Bali, Indonesia. Lina Lutfiawati, who goes by the name Lina Mukherjee, had recited an Islamic phrase before eating crispy pork skin on camera. Eating pork is strictly forbidden in Islam and Islam is the dominant religion in Indonesia. The 33-year-old, who identifies as Muslim, has more than 2 million followers on the social media platform.

Mukherjee said she tried pork out of curiosity, according to the BBC, which also reported she was traveling in Bali at the time the video was filmed. While Indonesia is a Muslim-majority country, the majority of the population on the popular holiday island of Bali identify as Hindu. In the video Mukherjee can be heard saying “Bismillah,” which means “in the name of God” in Arabic.

This week, a court in the South Sumatra city of Palembang sentenced her to two years prison after she was found guilty of “spreading information aimed at inciting hatred against religious individuals and specific groups,” AFP reported. She was also fined $16,269.22, and if it is not paid her jail term could be extended by three months. Mukherjee was reported over the video in March and was charged by police in May.

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[Crimson Fucker]

Not eating pork is just a hold over tradition from when pigs ate literal shit and garbage off the streets and would give you parasites and other diseases no matter how well you cook it. Hence why they added it to the scripture in the first place, even back then they knew. Nowadays pork is a lot cleaner so that dietary restriction isn't as necessary in some places, but it's still followed by tradition because they still see them as dirty. To be fair in a lot of 3rd world countries that have pork it can still be unsafe so depending on you location it would be better safe than sorry or perfectly fine to eat. Also there are exceptions like being tricked or simply not knowing and out of desperation since self preservation comes before dietary restrictions, because according to the koran Allah wants his followers to live even if they have to eat pork to do it.