The Jakarta Globe: A 75-year-old man in Aceh has filed a controversial lawsuit against local religious officials alleging that the noise from a nearby mosque’s six loudspeakers has negatively impacted […]
The Jakarta Globe: Just days before a provincial election, West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan has signed a deal with the hardline Islamic Defenders Front in which he has reportedly agreed […]
STORY SUMMARY A new survey by the Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace identifies which Indonesian provinces have the most instances of religious intolerance, demonstrating that the issue is unfortunately a real problem in the country. Many people initially find it hard to believe that in Indonesia, home to the […]
The Jakarta Globe: Indonesia will host a conference of Asian Muslim and Christian leaders from Feb. 26 to March 1, a report said on Wednesday. Under the theme “Bringing a […]
We still have a long-running debate on how to best to protect human rights and promote religious tolerance. Existing social diversity, income disparities and educational inequalities complicate matters further. The Jakarta Post: Our experience has taught us the wisdom of moderation: Optimism needs to be tempered by a sense of […]
The Jakarta Legal Aid Institute (LBH) released a statement on Friday saying that the Bekasi administration had violated the law in forbidding the Ahmadis from worshipping in their mosque. The […]
AFP: Attackers threw petrol bombs at three churches in central Indonesia Thursday, in the latest assault on religious minorities in the world’s biggest Muslim-populated nation. Police in the south of […]
The Jakarta Globe: Indonesia’s beleaguered Ahmadiyah sect suffered another blow on Thursday as Bekasi’s mayor announced plans to shutdown a Pondok Gede mosque as part of a city-wide crackdown on […]
Agence France-PresseFebruary 7, 2013 The speaker of Indonesia’s parliament sought Thursday to play down comments he made about all men wanting to be polygamous but being afraid of their wives, saying the remarks were just meant as a joke. House of representatives speaker Marzuki Alie was quoted by the Jakarta […]
The Jakarta Post, Religious intolerance continues to cast its dark shadow over the country as two churches in Makassar, South Sulawesi, were attacked with Molotov cocktails on Sunday morning, only […]
Source: The Jakarta Post Editor: Actual headline reads, “Journalists tested on knowledge of Islam” A survey conducted by Pantau Foundation in 2012 reveals that religious intolerance among Indonesian journalists remains […]
Following Editorial has been written in response to the following news: Accused witch tortured, burned alive in Papua, New Guinea Time for leaders to condemn sorcery killings Papua New Guineans […]
The Jakarta Post: Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo It would be a rough comparison and some people might object to it, but it is interesting to match the gun control debate in […]
The Obama from Java The Guardian: Like a lot of people in the autumn of 2012, I watched the TV debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It was the […]
The Jakarta Post The Ahmadiyah Indonesia Congregation (JAI) is calling on the government to restore the rights of its members, who have been living in a shelter for the past […]
The Heads of State and Government will meet on the 6th & 7th of February 2013 to discuss political matters of importance to the Muslim World, on top of […]
Rabwah Times: Five members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community who are witnesses in the “Ahmadiyya Mosque Vandalism” case have asked the Indonesian Legal Aid Foundation (LBH) in Bandung for protection. […]
Indonesia: Confront Intolerance in 2013 Phelim Kine, deputy Asia director Indonesia’s growing regional prominence is being held back by the government’s failure to confront intolerance of the country’s diverse political […]
Hijab for a day: Non-Muslim women who try the headscarf Source: BBC World Hijab Day calls on non-Muslim women to try out life under the traditional head scarf. Can it […]
Religious affairs office tells schools to close for refusing to provide Islamic teaching to their Muslim children Blitar, NU Online: The Religious Affairs Ministry’s office in Blitar, East Java, has […]