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The Jakarta Globe;
The Indonesian government has been accused by an American watchdog of violating its citizens’ right to religious freedom, according to a recent report.
A member of Ahmadiyah Islamic sect, Mohammad Iqbal, stands behind a door at Al Misbah mosque in Bekasi on April 9. A group of minority Ahmadiyah Muslims have been holed up in a mosque since authorities shuttered it in April, in a stand-off that starkly illustrates the growing religious intolerance sweeping the country.
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent federal advisory body created by the International Religious Freedom Act to monitor religious freedom abuses abroad, in a report on Tuesday highlighted the status of religious freedom globally and identified the governments that are the most egregious violators.
“The state of international religious freedom is increasingly dire due to the presence of forces that fuel instability. These forces include the rise of violent religious extremism coupled with the actions and inactions of governments,” Katrina Lantos Swett, USCIRF’s chair, said in a USCIRF statement obtained in Jakarta on Thursday.