Indonesia minister says immorality causes disasters

by Babel-Fish | November 28, 2009 at 09:41 pm

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Okay here we have a guy belong to PKS party The party is Islamist in the sense that it calls for a central role for Islam in public life. Well he in fact is the parties leader.

He believes that God is spend wraigth on Indonesia because of immorality.

A government minister has blamed Indonesia's recent string of natural disasters on people's immorality.

Communication and Information Minister Tifatul Sembiring said that there were many television programmes that destroyed morals.

Therefore, the minister said, natural disasters would continue to occur.

His comments came as he addressed a prayer meeting on Friday in Padang, Sumatra, which was hit by a powerful earthquake in late September.

He also hit out at rising decadence - proven, he said, by the availability of Indonesia-made pornographic DVDs in local markets - and called for tougher laws.

According to the Jakarta Globe, his comments sparked an angry reaction on the internet, particularly among those who followed him on social networking site Twitter.