https://sg.news.yahoo.com/death-forbidden-pet-dog-indonesia-113355429.html
An incident where a dog was left to die inside a cabbage crate in Indonesia has sparked a debate on the meaning of “halal tourism.”
On 23 October, a black canine named Canon had died after it was reportedly seized by local government officials from a resort in the Aceh province, off Sumatra island in a bid to comply with sharia law.
In a viral social media video, a group of police officers can be seen chasing away the dog using a piece of wood. Another officer was seen hitting the dog with a branch of a tree.
Ahmad Yani, the chief of Aceh province’s municipal police, denied that the dog died because of violence and claimed that the animal perished from stress while being transported to another location.
The dog had suffocated inside the crate before the owner located the animal.
After videos of the alleged cruelty against the dog went viral, #JusticeForCanon started trending on Indonesian Twitter.
An online petition calling for a thorough investigation into the incident has gained over 130,000 signatures to date.
Aceh, located in the northwest tip of the Sumatra island, used to be a region that faced civil strife. It is now, however, a popular tourist destination among Muslim travellers as it is the only province in the Muslim-majority country that abides by sharia law.
Slamming the inhuman treatment towards the dog, Indonesia’s minister of tourism and creative economy Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno said “all forms of violence against animals are not part of halal [permitted] tourism.”…
An incident where a dog was left to die inside a cabbage crate in Indonesia has sparked a debate on the meaning of “halal tourism.”
On 23 October, a black canine named Canon had died after it was reportedly seized by local government officials from a resort in the Aceh province, off Sumatra island in a bid to comply with sharia law.
In a viral social media video, a group of police officers can be seen chasing away the dog using a piece of wood. Another officer was seen hitting the dog with a branch of a tree.
Ahmad Yani, the chief of Aceh province’s municipal police, denied that the dog died because of violence and claimed that the animal perished from stress while being transported to another location.
The dog had suffocated inside the crate before the owner located the animal.
After videos of the alleged cruelty against the dog went viral, #JusticeForCanon started trending on Indonesian Twitter.
An online petition calling for a thorough investigation into the incident has gained over 130,000 signatures to date.
Aceh, located in the northwest tip of the Sumatra island, used to be a region that faced civil strife. It is now, however, a popular tourist destination among Muslim travellers as it is the only province in the Muslim-majority country that abides by sharia law.
Slamming the inhuman treatment towards the dog, Indonesia’s minister of tourism and creative economy Sandiaga Salahuddin Uno said “all forms of violence against animals are not part of halal [permitted] tourism.”…
