5 students expelled and forbidden to take exams for dancing to Maroon 5 song
Published: 2013 April 23 18:38:59 (3273 Views)
Five high school students in Indonesia who recorded themselves praying and dancing to a Maroon 5 song, have been expelled.
They also face time in juvenile detention for "tainting religion" after the video surfaced on the Internet.
The five girls were trying to kill time between an hour long break from classes in the afternoon of March 9 when they made the video.
The headmaster of the school, Muallimin, said he decided to report the students to the police after consulting with the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) and Islamic Defenders Front (FPI).
"The students were performing Sholat [prayer] movement with dancing while alternately reciting [the] Koran and turning on 'One More Night' music," Muallimin said, referring to the Maroon 5 song.
"The activity was recorded with a mobile phone of one of the students and they forced other student to hold the phone for a duration of five to six minutes."
The students have been expelled from school and were forbidden from taking the high school national exam.
The exam counts for 60 percent of a student's final mark to determine whether they will graduate from high school or not.
The expulsion was approved by the FPI Tolitoli branch head, local Youth and Sports Agency, Tolitoli Religious Affairs Ministry and the MUI.
The students were questioned for the first time by police on April 3.
Adj. Comr. Alhajat, the Tolitoli Police chief of detectives, said that the five students were charged with blasphemy against religion under article 156 of the Criminal Code.
"Temporarily we use this law, but there's a possibility that we'll charge them with other articles during the process," Alhajat said, as quoted by JPNN.com.
Tolitoli Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Rudy Mulyanto said that the five have not been detained because they are children, but the legal proceeding would continue.
Minister of Education Muhammad Nuh said that the school had reacted disproportionately to the student's video.
"Even students in [juvenile detention] were allowed to join national exam," Nuh said on Tuesday, as quoted by Detik.com.
On March 29, a man told his wife, a teacher at the school, the he saw people watching the video at a market. She later reported the case to the school.
It was not clear who uploaded the video to YouTube.
- Detik News
They also face time in juvenile detention for "tainting religion" after the video surfaced on the Internet.
The five girls were trying to kill time between an hour long break from classes in the afternoon of March 9 when they made the video.
The headmaster of the school, Muallimin, said he decided to report the students to the police after consulting with the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) and Islamic Defenders Front (FPI).
"The students were performing Sholat [prayer] movement with dancing while alternately reciting [the] Koran and turning on 'One More Night' music," Muallimin said, referring to the Maroon 5 song.
"The activity was recorded with a mobile phone of one of the students and they forced other student to hold the phone for a duration of five to six minutes."
The students have been expelled from school and were forbidden from taking the high school national exam.
The exam counts for 60 percent of a student's final mark to determine whether they will graduate from high school or not.
The expulsion was approved by the FPI Tolitoli branch head, local Youth and Sports Agency, Tolitoli Religious Affairs Ministry and the MUI.
The students were questioned for the first time by police on April 3.
Adj. Comr. Alhajat, the Tolitoli Police chief of detectives, said that the five students were charged with blasphemy against religion under article 156 of the Criminal Code.
"Temporarily we use this law, but there's a possibility that we'll charge them with other articles during the process," Alhajat said, as quoted by JPNN.com.
Tolitoli Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Rudy Mulyanto said that the five have not been detained because they are children, but the legal proceeding would continue.
Minister of Education Muhammad Nuh said that the school had reacted disproportionately to the student's video.
"Even students in [juvenile detention] were allowed to join national exam," Nuh said on Tuesday, as quoted by Detik.com.
On March 29, a man told his wife, a teacher at the school, the he saw people watching the video at a market. She later reported the case to the school.
It was not clear who uploaded the video to YouTube.
- Detik News
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