Lake Toba’s tourist industry has struggled since the 1997 Asian financial crisis. But when its provincial governor proposed making the area friendlier to Muslim tourists by regulating its practice of slaughtering pigs in public, critics erupted in anger.
, including the conviction last year of a Buddhist woman in North Sumatra who complained the call to prayer at her neighborhood mosque was too loud.
Stories also abound of churches being shuttered for spurious reasons such as a lack of proper permitting. Then on Aug. 22, Rahmayadi finished his midday prayer and held an impromptu news conference where he was asked about Lake Toba’s cleanliness. Zuhra said the issue was conflated with Christian outrage at the time over a national story about a prominent Muslim preacher, Abdul Somad, who likened the cross to the sign of the devil. Abdul is a close ally of Rahmayadi, a former army general who was elected governor in 2018 with broad Muslim support.and referred all questions to his chief of tourism and culture.“We need proper amenities first,” she said, suppressing a chuckle when asked if Lake Toba had any five-star accommodations .
The central government set a target of 1 million visitors to Lake Toba last year. It got about 25,000. He remembers seeing Western backpackers on the island for the first time in the early 1970s. The locals were initially spooked, thinking the foreigners were ghosts of former Dutch colonists, and tried to drive them away.
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