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Malaysia prides itself on being a multiethnic democracy where numerous religions coexist. But its reputation as a moderate Muslim-majority nation has been called into question by a monthlong controversy over whether a Muslim mother of two, Kartika Sari Dewi, should be whipped for a peculiar crime: drinking a beer in public. On Aug. 24, Kartika was due to become the first woman in Malaysia to be caned, after an Islamic court sentenced her in July to six lashes. But Islamic officials suddenly delayed the corporal punishment just hours before she was to endure the lashing...
...Kartika, 32, had steeled herself to her punishment after having pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol while at a resort in 2007. On Monday morning, she donned an Islamic headscarf, planted a kiss on the cheek of her 5-year-old daughter and got into a van to make the 270-km journey to a women's prison outside the capital of Kuala Lumpur. Instead, the van pulled over after just 200 m while officials from the Prisons Department, the Attorney General's chambers and the Islamic courts argued over the case. In the end, a decision was made to defer...
...moon of the lunar month of Kartika marks Diwali, the Indian festival of lights, when Hindus across the country worship the goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. But divinities know full well the laws that govern finance, and Lakshmi may now be a little tight-fisted about circulating her riches amid the ongoing global credit crunch...
...Djakarta's latest luxury hotel, the Kartika Plaza, is owned by an army cooperative. As far as the army is concerned, this is legitimate, although civilians are troubled by the practice...
...that smear about me in Japanese weeklies, I haven't had a day of repose," complained Dewi, disclosing that she had filed suit against the publisher of a novel about a former nightclub hostess who marries an Asian President. For consolation, Dewi has packed up six-month-old Kartika Sari and flown off to New York City and the hospitality of Cindy Adams, wife of a nightclub comedian and author of an as-told-to autobiography of Sukarno...