- Dewi Mustika became a widow in January 2016 when ISIS terrorist shot husband
- Muslim Indonesian woman decided to shun her hijab during period of grieving
- Angered by terror, she declared wearing a hijab doesn’t make someone good
- She let friends set her up on a date with an Australian carpenter in the Pilbara
A devout Muslim woman stopped wearing the hijab after an ISIS terrorist shot dead her husband in an horrific attack outside a Starbucks cafe in Jakarta.
Dewi Mustika became a widow in January 2016 when her Canadian-Algerian husband Taher Amir Oali was on the way to the American chain cafe for a business meeting.
After an ISIS-inspired suicide bomber blew up the cafe, he stood among a crowd of people outside watching the black smoke when another terrorist shot him dead.
Dewi Mustika stopped wearing the hijab after a terrorist killed her husband Taher Amir Oali
In the months after that tragedy, Dewi dedicated her time to fitting hearing aids to poor Indonesians to honour her dead husband’s work with the needy.
During her grieving, she also decided to remove her hijab, which she had worn permanently since 2015, out of anger with the terrorists using Islam as the basis for their murderous attack.
‘I realised that wearing the hijab doesn’t make you a good person,’ she told the Sunday Telegraph.
‘Praying five times a day doesn’t necessarily make you a good person. You are a good person because of your actions.’
Dewi Mustika no longer wears the hijab and is dating an Australian carpenter Ralf Eggebrett
Her friends also urged to find another man and convinced her to meet an acquaintance of theirs in Australia.
That’s when she communicated several times a day on WhatsApp with 47-year-old carpenter Ralf Eggebrett, who moved to Australia from Germany in 2000 before setting at Port Headland, in Western Australia’s remote Pilbara region.
Dewi’s family is happy she’s found love with a man who isn’t a Muslim.
‘He is a kind man, a caring man,’ she said. ‘I love him.’
He has visited her in Indonesia while she has met him in Western Australia.