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Padang stall accused of secretly selling pork satay to Muslims

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Jakarta Post - January 30, 2019

Jakarta – The owners of a satay restaurant in Padang, West Sumatra, are under investigation following reports that they have been secretly serving Muslim customers pork satay.

Officials from the Padang Trade Agency have conducted an inspection and confirmed that the satay restaurant had been using pork without notifying their customers.

"We arrested the sellers for allegedly selling satay made from pork," agency head Endrizal said on Tuesday as quoted by antaranews.com.

The agency has confiscated hundred pieces of satay and 2 kilograms of frozen pork from the sellers as evidence.

The sellers, identified as Devi and Bustami, claimed they did not know they were selling pork, saying they had obtained what they thought was beef from Kusti Gani. She had purchased 10 kilograms of pork from Kusti at Rp 95,000 per kilogram (US$6).

"I didn't know that it was pork. As first, [Kusti] offered the meat to me and was willing to directly deliver it to me. I thought that made things easier so I accepted," she claimed.

The agency said the three would be taken to the police to face prosecution.

Muslims are prohibited from consuming pork, which is considered haram. Non-Muslims, however, can easily find pork in the country despite the large Muslim population. (foy)

Source: https://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2019/01/30/padang-stall-accused-of-secretly-selling-pork-satay-to-muslims.html

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