On July 17, the family of Fitria Indah Lestari was in a festive mood. Welcoming her secondborn, a healthy baby boy, her family held an aqiqah, an Islamic ritual where people offer a sacrifice as an expression of gratitude following the birth of a child. She invited friends and relatives to her house in Tangerang, Banten. The 21-day-old baby was sleeping in Fitria’s bedroom when visitors asked the mother to bring him out to be presented for a blessing. The blessing, in which people chanted prayers and cut the baby’s hair, went on for no longer than five minutes. Fitria’s heart was filled with happiness, she recalled. But at the same time she was uncomfortable with the presence of three men smoking inside the house during the event. The joy faded two days later when her son started to cough and suffer breathing difficulties. She and her husband took the baby to a...