Getting rid of black magic

The news report that Indonesia is regulating a law to put 'black magic' practitioners behind bar, really makes my day.

I wonder if Malaysia should emulate such a move, especially those shamans and 'bomoh tipu' who go around cheating people for big money.

Oopsss... not forgetting the 'black magic' among some politicians. Some really sought the help of 'bomoh' to ensure the rakyat support them all the way. Remember Mona Fandey case?

I believe many would go to 'bomoh' before the general election. Read this:

Australian travellers to Indonesia beware: smuggling drugs will still earn you jail time but, if an official draft of the country's new criminal code becomes law, witches and people practising "black magic", even adulterers and those living together outside wedlock, may also be locked away.

The new draft law is meant to modernise Indonesia's 1918 Criminal Code, which was last updated in 1958, but some of its proposals constitute a big step back to the Middle Ages.
 In a country where many people earnestly believe that they could be killed, injured or robbed by a sorcerer using black magic, that crime will, for the first time, become part of the criminal law.
News portal Detik.com reported late on Thursday that people guilty of using black magic to cause "someone's illness, death, mental or physical suffering", face up to five years in jail or 300 million rupiah ($A31,000) in fines.
Even claiming to have the power to cast dark spells would become a criminal offence, and if the magic was performed for financial gain, the penalty would increase by one-third. "White" magic would remain legal.
Commentators quoted in the Jakarta Globe newspaper agreed it may be difficult to gather hard evidence for these offences.