【こぼれ話】聖なる山で裸で「ハカ」　カナダ人俳優を強制送還へ　バリ島

【デンパサールＡＦＰ＝時事】インドネシアのバリ島で、聖なる山の山頂で裸で踊ったカナダ人俳優で自称「ウェルネスグル」の男が強制送還されることになった。（資料写真）
　ジェフリー・クレイゲンさんは、神聖とされるバトゥール山の山頂で、ニュージーランドの先住民マオリの戦いの舞「ハカ」を裸で踊る様子を撮影し、ソーシャルメディアに投稿した。
　動画を見た人から、バリ島の宗教的価値観を侮辱しているとの非難が殺到。当局は２５日、クレイゲンさんを拘束し事情を聞いた。
　クレイゲンさんは現在、強制送還を待っているところだが、新型コロナウイルスのワクチン接種を受けていないため、航空会社に搭乗を断られているという。
　クレイゲンさんは、当分の間、バリ島の入国禁止者リストに入れられる。
　地元入国管理局によると、クレイゲンさんは２０１９年末から観光と骨粗しょう症の代替療法を学ぶため、インドネシアに滞在していた。
　クレイゲンさんは、バトゥール山が神聖な場所だとは知らなかったと話している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2022/04/28-10:13）

A Canadian actor and self-proclaimed wellness guru is facing deportation from Indonesia's Bali island after a video of him dancing naked at a sacred mountain went viral.
Jeffrey Craigen posted a video of himself doing the Haka -- a ceremonial dance in New Zealand's Maori culture -- while nude on top of Mount Batur, a volcano considered holy by many Balinese.
He was detained and questioned on Monday following a deluge of complaints from social media users accusing him of disrespecting Balinese religious values.
Craigen is currently awaiting deportation -- but authorities say airlines are reluctant to help because he is not vaccinated against Covid-19.
Airlines have not agreed (to transport him), the head of Denpasar immigration office Tedy Riyandi told AFP Tuesday.
He will be put on a blacklist preventing him from entering Bali for the foreseeable future, officials said.
Craigen has been in Indonesia since late 2019 as a tourist and to study alternative treatments for osteoporosis, the head of Bali's immigration office Jamaruli Manihuruk said.
He has claimed he did not know the mountain was a holy site.
To all foreigners who visit Bali, please act accordingly by respecting our law and Balinese cultural values, Manihuruk said.
Bali is no stranger to badly behaved tourists. Last year almost 200 people were deported from the island, some of them for violating Covid-19 protocols.
In 2019, a Czech couple were widely condemned after a video showed the woman laughing at a Balinese temple while her partner splashed her backside with holy water.
They were required to take part in a purification ritual led by a Hindu priest.
Tourism in Bali had been crippled by the pandemic over the last two years.
But it has begun to bounce back after the island scrapped quarantines for vaccinated tourists and reintroduced visas on arrival for nationals of several dozen countries.