JAKARTA — An Indonesian court has sentenced environmental activist Daniel Frits Maurits Tangkilisan to seven months in jail for his on-line criticism of unlawful shrimp farms within a marine national park off Java Island. The Jepara Superior Court docket in Indonesia’s Central Java province also fined Daniel 5 million rupiah ($315) in its April 4 ruling. It identified the activist responsible of “spreading hate” underneath a controversial 2008 regulation on on the internet speech, above a Facebook write-up in which he denounced the shrimp farms running within Karimunjawa Nationwide Park, an ostensibly safeguarded location. Decide Parlin Mangatas Bona Tua explained Daniel’s publish had “created unrest” among the community users in Karimunjawa. The sentence handed down was much less than the 10 months sought by prosecutors. Daniel Frits Maurits Tangkilisan, an environmental activist, is photographed in law enforcement custody immediately after becoming arrested for criticizing the presence of unlawful shrimp farms in a guarded place. Graphic courtesy of Lingkar Juang Karimunjawa. Indonesian setting ministry officials examine an unlawful shrimp farm in Karimunjawa Nationwide Park. Picture courtesy of the Indonesian Ministry of Surroundings and Forestry. A coalition of 21 environmental and human rights teams has lambasted the court’s final decision. In a push statement issued following the ruling, it explained the conclusion established a adverse precedent that anybody could be punished thanks to “a subjective notion of other people,” irrespective of the truth of the matter. “This final decision provides a bad image for Indonesian courts,” the statement reported. “The impact of this conclusion is very undesirable for environmental defense efforts in Karimunjawa.” Daniel is…This write-up was at first released on Mongabay