The new bill will allow all religious groups to perform religious teachings in public.

Fresh from allowing citizens to leave the religion column on their ID cards blank, the government has announced the drafting of a new bill that would serve as the legal grounds to provide protection to adherents of all religions in the country.

Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin said on Monday that the drafted regulation, called the protection of religious communities bill, will allow all religious groups to perform religious teachings in public.

Lukman said that the bill, which was expected to be submitted to the House of Representatives for approval by April next year, is an elaboration of the Constitution’s guarantee of freedom for all followers of religious communities to observe their faiths.

“For each of us, whether or not the state recognizes [the faith], there will be a guarantee for the protection of whichever faiths the people want to embrace and how they perform [them],” Lukman told the press at his office on Monday.

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