Indonesia Launches "Heresy App" to Help Muslims Lodge Blasphemy Complaints

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This article is a couple of months old, but still relevant as we have some right here in this group who evidently agree that atheists should watch what they say, and be arrested for crime of incitement if they offend religious people, by drawing a cartoon, for instance.

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/12/08/indonesia-launches-heresy-app-to-help-muslims-lodge-blasphemy-complaints/

In Indonesia, which has the world’s largest population of Muslims and a history of discriminating against atheists, the government has a unique approach to blasphemy: a free “heresy app” to encourage reports.

It’s not all that surprising that this would happen in Indonesia. As we reported earlier this year, some non-believers in the country have admitted to hiding their atheism out of fear of reprisal.

Perhaps that’s why the government needed to take additional steps to locate those who commit the so-called crime of blasphemy.

...“The objective… is to provide easier access to information about the spread of beliefs in Indonesia, to educate the public and to prevent them from following doctrines from an individual or a group that are not in line with the regulations,” Nirwan Nawawi, a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office, told AFP in a statement.