As i mentioned on another post lombok is slowing sliding backwards socially and eventually economically. Whether it is last years burning of a few bars, the US person who could not handle the excessive noise of the mosque or this victim they all share a common thread. I live in Palu for a number of years and about a month after signing my rental contract the mosque appropriated a larger speaker and it really became an qaulity of life issue, In addition during the holy month of ramadan children with drums would start walking the streets every morning at 0400 hours and stop outside my place and chinese owned houses and continue with the drumming. Sadly there is nothing that can be done about these issues except leave and move to bali, which i did

'hundreds of residents had attacked and wrecked a villa belonging to a German national and torched his motorcycle for blaspheming Islam'


A Second Villa Trashed in Lombok after Alleged Insult to Islam | The Jakarta Globe