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Business Favours: Muslim-Majority Nation and Police Plan

business favours: However, local media quoted the deputy national police chief, Syafruddin, as saying on Thursday that there appeared to be no criminal offence involved and the case should be dropped, according to The Chronicle Herald. The nearly three-minute video entitled Ask Daddy for a Project a reference to children of politicians who seek business favours includes criticism of Indonesians who during recent sectarian tensions in the Muslim-majority nation declared they would refuse funeral rites for those who supported non-Muslims as leaders. Police plan to summon Kaesang Pangarep for questioning after receiving a complaint about a video uploaded to You Tube in May, Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono said Thursday. Rights groups have frequently called for Indonesia's draconian blasphemy law to be repealed. The former governor of Jakarta, a minority Christian, is serving a two-year prison sentence for blasphemy after being sentenced in May following months of protests against him by Islamic hardliners. It allows for sentences of up to five years in prison and is often used to attack minorities and political foes. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.