Law No. 1/PNPS/1965 does not prohibit Ahmadis from professing and practicing their beliefs.
RI must tell the truth at Geneva rights summit: HRWG
Margareth S. Aritonang, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta :
Rights group have urged the Indonesian government not to deny the true state of the country’s human rights record when it presents a report before the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) later this week.
The Indonesian delegation, comprising government officials and representatives of a number of rights groups, is scheduled to present a report on the condition of the country’s human rights at the UNHRC’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 23.
“Of course, there is progress, but we also have to admit that Indonesia has seen major threats against religious minorities and people of different sexual orientation. I believe that the international community has also witnessed this and for this reason, we challenge the government to acknowledge this at the forum because we have not seen this in the report submitted to the UNHRC,” Human Rights Working Group (HRWG) executive director Rafendi Djamin said over the weekend.
Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Indonesia, Religious persecution
There are laws in place to protect rights and freedom of minorities in Indonesia however the government officials including police and justice department themselves do not take appropriate and timely actions when it is needed. There should be a system to make sure that law enforcing authorities them selves abide by the law with out any discrimination.
Hope for the best.
Solution is simple, enforce the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and make some laws against hate crimes and enforce them.
Let Ahmadi Muslim scholars explain to them that how the best case can be made the Holy Quran and Hadith for religious freedoms. For starters read two books by Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahamd:
Murder in the name of Allah
Islam’s response to Contemporary Issues
Another wonderful resource will be Sir Zafrulla Khan’s book Human Rights. While the Indonesian Government is on a reading spree, they may as well read one of my articles:
An invitation to other religions: demonstrating human rights and Universal Brotherhood from your scriptures