The Jakarta Globe:
After spending years living in Wisma Transito displacement camp without ID cards, dozens of West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Ahmadis may finally be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel after a group of local officials visited them and promised they would soon be given the cards.
However, the ID cards would say nothing of the Ahmadis’ religion.
“A group of officials led by Sautma Sihombing from the Home Ministry has stated they want to issue ID cards for us, but with one condition that the religion column is left empty,” Ahmadiyah displacement coordinator Syahidin said on Friday……..
To date, as many as 117 Ahmadis, comprised of 30 households, still live at Wisma Transito in Mataram after a group of hard-liners vandalized their village seven years ago.
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I wrote to the President of Indonesia on twitter:
Rafiq A. TSCHANNEN @MuslimPoly
@SBYudhoyono Ahmadi-Muslims in Lombok to get ID cards. Thank you Mr. President. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/07/26/displaced-ntb-ahmadis-get-id-cards-with-no-religious-preference.html … and: when can they go home?
Alhamdulillah, the column of religion be left empty is no big deal as in Indonesia it is noted and known of “Islam as in only IC” as some are not even Islam or do not know how to even recite the Islamic Kalimah. Religion is what we believe NOT what being told by others.