On World Tolerance Day, November 16, 2024, the Ahmadiyah congregation is still discriminated against. Cornered by the MUI fatwa and the Joint Decree of three ministers.
November 16, 2024
Key points
- Ahmadiyah followers have repeatedly been subjected to intimidation and physical persecution.
- Setara Institute proposes the revocation of discriminatory legal products.
- There are efforts by the Ministry of Religion to revise the Joint Decree of the three ministers which contains a ban on Ahmadiyah.
TA look of wariness was visible in the eyes of a number of women sitting on the terrace of their house in Nyalindung Hamlet in Ngamplang Village, Garut Regency, West Java, when Tempo journalists visited there on November 7, 2024.
The member of the Indonesian Ahmadiyah Congregation (JAI) kept an eye on Tempo as he approached the 9 x 10 square meter mosque that looked unfinished. “If I were here, nothing would happen. Don’t worry, bro,” said Sudrajat, a Ngamplang Village official who accompanied Tempo to Nyalindung Village.
Nyalindung Village is right under the Garut-Tasikmalaya Highway. There are 80 families of Ahmadiyah followers here. They are spread across two neighborhood associations (RT). They no longer remember that Indonesia has religious tolerance and the world celebrates Tolerance Day every November 16, 2024.
The head of the local Community Association, Ali Nugraha, said that the psychological condition of his residents who are members of the Ahmadiyah congregation has been quite depressed since the sealing of their mosque on July 2, 2024. The local government sealed it on the grounds that it was unlicensed. “The Ahmadiyah residents below are screaming. They have no property, and their mosque is about to be confiscated. Their psychology is depressed,” said Ali, Thursday, November 7, 2024.
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The sealing of the Ahmadiyah mosque in Nyalindung Village has occurred repeatedly. The first sealing was in 2021. At that time, the Garut Regency Coordination Team for Supervision of Beliefs and Religious Sects in Society (Pakem) sealed it. This coordination team consists of several agencies, including the Garut District Attorney’s Office, Garut Police, 0611/Garut Military District Command, Ministry of Religion, Garut Government National Unity and Politics Agency, Civil Service Police Unit, Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), and the Interfaith Harmony Forum (FKUB).
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Ahmadiyah congregation carrying out activities at the Al Hidayah Mosque, which was sealed by the Depok City Government in Sawangan Depok, West Java, October 22, 2021. TEMPO/Subekti.
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