Year in jail for tourist who wouldn't shut up on Bali's Day of Silence

Luzian Andrin Zgraggen filmed himself walking to a beach during Nyepi, called the tradition "crazy," and now faces a sentence from the Denpasar District Court.

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The Day of Silence is a sacred Balinese Hindu observance, and tourists are expected to honor it too. Luzian Andrin Zgraggen not only failed in this obligation, but insulted it, an infraction that now lands him in an Indonesian jail for a year.

The Denpasar District Court determined that he posted the messages …