[Straits Times] AN INDONESIAN court has jailed a 70-year-old man who claimed to have been to heaven twice and declared himself a prophet, a report said on Friday. That judge is gonna be real sorry when he turns into a pillar of salt.
Bakri Abdullah was arrested in October last year and charged under the country's blasphemy law.
He reportedly told his small group of followers that he had ascended from a mountain into heaven in 1975 and again in 1997, according to Detikcom news website.
His claims eventually angered his neighbours on the Muslim island of Lombok, who reported him to police.
The sentence handed down on Thursday of one year in jail was six months lighter than prosecutors had requested.