A 70-year-old Indonesian, who declared himself a prophet and claimed to have visited heaven twice, has been convicted under the country’s blasphemy law and sentenced to jail.
Bakri Abdullah, who was arrested in October last year and charged under the country’s blasphemy law, was on Thursday sentenced by a local court to one year in jail.
The convict reportedly told his small group of followers that he had ascended from a mountain into heaven in 1975 and again in 1997, according to Detik.com Website.
His claims eventually angered his neighbours on the Muslim island of Lombok, who reported him to police.
Last year, a Facebook user invited the wrath of the Indonesian Council of Ulema after claiming in an online posting that he is a prophet.
Islam teaches that Muhammad was the final prophet and any such claim by any one amounts to blasphemy.
