Thursday, August 04, 2011

Police in Sumatra arrest four civil servants for not fasting, including a non-Muslim...

Police in Bengkulu city in Sumatra have arrested four civil servants, including one non-Muslim, for not fasting.

According to Bengkulu Police head Khairul Saleh, the four people were found eating in a restaurant during a sweep by authorities on Thursday.

“For the time being they were given a written reprimand. It would be up their offices concerned to follow it up,” Khairul said.

The sweep was carried out on the orders of Bengkulu Mayor Ahmad Kanedi, who said on the first day of Ramadan that city employees who did not fast during the holy month would be dismissed from their jobs.

He also offered a Rp 1 million ($118) bounty to citizens to help catch administration officials eating in public. More...

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