In June 2008, the Yudhoyono administration issued a decree requiring the Ahmadiyah sect to “stop spreading interpretations and activities that deviate from the principal teachings of Islam.” The government said the decree was necessary to prevent violence against the sect, but local governments used the decree to write even stricter […]
Agus Triyono | May 22, 2012 THE JAKARTA GLOBE Trying to counter the growing intolerance in Indonesia, the country’s two largest Muslim organizations have expressed support for the protection of people’s constitutional rights to religious freedom amid several incidences of unilateral church foreclosures in the country. “By law, the government […]
Source: NY Times By ANDREAS HARSONO Published: May 21, 2012 (Andreas Harsono is a researcher for the Asia division at Human Rights Watch) IT is fashionable these days for Western leaders to praise Indonesia as a model Muslim democracy. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has declared, “If you want to […]
When vigilantes are morality police By: Endy Bayuni Posted: 1:00 AM Source: Winnipeg Free Press. JAKARTA, Indonesia — The stage was already set for battle between the 52,000 Indonesian fans of Lady Gaga, who bought and paid for tickets to see her perform, and the 30,000-strong Islamic Defenders Front, who […]
Ahmadiyah at the Bottom of Govt List for e-KTP Registration May 22, 2012 Source:Jakarta Globe. Mataram. The West Nusa Tenggara government put dozens of Ahamdiyah Muslims at the bottom of its list to register for an electronic identity card, known as e-KTP. Lalu Sajim Sastrawan, head of the province’s administration […]
The NewYork Times- The opinion pages JAKARTA — Just a few days after Lady Gaga’s concert in Indonesia was canceled after protests by Islamic groups, I flew 1,370 kilometers from Jakarta to Padang, West Sumatra, and drove a further 130 kilometers, a four-hour journey along rough, winding roads, to Sijunjung, […]
Law No. 1/PNPS/1965 does not prohibit Ahmadis from professing and practicing their beliefs. RI must tell the truth at Geneva rights summit: HRWG Margareth S. Aritonang, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta : Rights group have urged the Indonesian government not to deny the true state of the country’s human […]
Jakarta Post: Temple epitomizes tolerance A Balinese woman of Chinese descent offers her prayers at the kongco inside the Ulun Danu Batur temple in Kintamani. An ancient temple in Batur is the living epitome of religious and cultural tolerance, a value often associated with Balinese culture. A beautiful kongco (Chinese […]
Jakarta Globe: Every Thursday afternoon without fail, they turn up outside the front gates of the State Palace in Central Jakarta, a group of just over a dozen elderly people. …………….. …………………… No repercussions In the past four years, at least 30 Ahmadiyah mosques have been forced to close […]
……. Over the past four years violence against religious minorities, especially the Ahmadiyah, has dramatically increased. ——-While the 2008 Ahmadi decree does not expressly forbid worship, local decrees enacted following the national decree go further in banning Ahmadiyah worship. Approximately 30 Ahmadi mosques have been closed by the authorities. Human […]
Jakarta Globe: Illiterate Farmer Faces 10-Year Sentence after Taking Piece of Wood (He) should have stolen a few million dollars or killed an Ahmadiyah instead…. what a screwed place this is becoming- Says DrDez An illiterate farmer never imagined he would have to spend months in a police detention center […]
Asianews: by Mathias Hariyadi It’s called Banser and is a branch of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), a movement established in 1926 which aims to protect all minorities in the country. Recently, they foiled an attack by Islamic fundamentalists against a Canadian writer. According to members of NU “Muslims and Christians […]
The Jakarta Post: Amika Wardana, Colchester, UK In a show of force, members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) broke up a book launch and discussion featuring Canadian Muslim feminist Irshad Manji at the Salihara Cultural Center in Jakarta on May 5. It was said that the FPI accused Manji […]
Hindustan Times: When Alex Aan picked up a copy of Karen Armstrong’s Holy War from his local library in west Sumatra in 2005, he had little inkling of his own religious battle to come. But after posting “God doesn’t exist” on Facebook, the soft-spoken civil servant, 30, faces up to […]
Independent: Mist hung low over the jungle surrounding the Borobudur temple in Indonesia as thousands of the country’s Buddhists celebrated the annual Vesak festival. Known to some as the “Buddha’s […]
The Jakarta Post:Cosmopolitan tolerance is now at a crossroad, as seen in the violent acts against minority groups represented exclusively by Ahmadiyah. The public then may ask: Why has violence frequently been targeted at the Ahmadis in a collective level? Why do the Ahmadis tend to be publicly perceived as […]
The Jakarta Globe: Michael Victor Sianipar | Efforts by the government to insert itself more prominently into religious matters, coupled with its unclear stance on the role of religion in the state, will only exacerbate interreligious tensions in the country, leading rights activists warn. Veteran human rights activist Todung Mulya […]
The Jakarta Post: No individuals or organizations — or even old age — can stop Muslim scholar Dawam Rahardjo from spreading the spirit of pluralism. The figure who struggles for the rights of minorities in the world’s most populous Muslim country continues to dedicate himself to the cause and dares […]
Jakarta Post: Nasaruddin Umar : Last Friday an unidentified group attacked an Ahmadiyah congregation in Tasikmalaya, West Java, the latest of hundreds of incidents against the minority group. Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma […]
Source/Credit: Ahmadiyya Times / Metro News Banjar: Municipal Government (City Government) of Banjar, West Java, again sealed the Ahmadiyya Masjid Al Istiqomah on Wednesday (25/4) in Kampung Tanjungsukur, District Patamuran. […]