JAKARTA: A Muslim preacher has been arrested on charges that include blasphemy and hate speech after his Islamic boarding school provoked protests for allowing women to preach and pray beside men, police said on Wednesday.

The Al-Zaytun boarding school in West Java, Muslim-majority Indonesia's most populous province, has faced backlash from conservative groups that have accused it of following a version of Islam that is incompatible with the Quran.

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