Mob ransacks Ahmadiyah village

According to the spokesman, 29 buildings were damaged in the attack, including a mosque, a mushola (small mosque) and an elementary school.

The Jakarta Post:

….. Unknown assailants attacked an Ahmadhi hamlet in Tenjowaringin village in Tasikmalaya, West Java, early on Sunday morning.

“There were no fatalities. Only windows and doors were damaged,” Dodi Kurniawan, a spokesman for the Ahmadiyah community in Tenjowaringin, said over the telephone on Sunday.

Minority attacks majority———- Ahmadis are a majority in Wanasigra hamlet, where they comprise 95 percent of the local population. Tenjowaringin was 80 percent comprised of Ahmadhis

The attacks were apparently connected to a meeting of the local branch of the Indonesian Ahmadiyah Congregation (JAI) on Friday and Saturday that was attended by 2,700 Tenjowaringin residents, Dodi said.

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Tasikmalaya Police chief Adj. Sr. Comr. Wijonarko said that the meeting, which was conducted under guard by police, ended after ashar prayers in the late afternoon on Friday and resumed on Saturday.

“The activity stopped after dzuhur on Saturday, Wijonarko said, referring to noon prayers. “People who were against Ahmadiyah, however, got information saying that the activity was still going on.”

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Police met members of the mob, who descended on the hamlet from outside Tasikmalaya around 1 a.m. on Sunday to ensure that the meeting had ended, according to the police chief.

“We prevented the mob from vandalizing the village. When they found out that the gathering had indeed stopped, the mob responded by throwing stones,” Wijonarko said.

Dodi said the attack on the community had gone on for about 15 minutes. “But it seemed that there was someone giving the commands.”

The Ahmadhi spokesman said that police officers on scene did nothing to stop the rampage and that no one had been evacuated after the attack.

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