Police said the man was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to cause misconduct in a public office, contrary to Section 1 of the Criminal Law Act 1977.
The UMCF press release claims that the film is part of a conspiracy involving "media terrorism" to cause war between Muslims and Christians and its content should not be protected as free speech.
" Another SCMP story concluded with this conjecture about the spreading violence: "The popular explanation for the cause of the ... growing unrest across Indonesia's eastern islands remains the conspiracy theory.