Apriadi Gunawan – As many as 300 former members of the Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar) in North Sumatra have returned to their communities in various regions throughout the province, ready to re

Jakarta – Discrimination against religious minority groups remains rampant across Indonesia, according to the National Commission of Human Rights, or Komnas HAM, in its first quarterly report relea

Jakarta – Indonesian officials and security forces have been complicit in the violent forced eviction of more than 7,000 members of the Gafatar religious community from their homes on Kalimantan is

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-025-2016

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Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Religious intolerance is still rife in Yogyakarta, with three cases reported in the first three months of this year in a city once regarded as a paragon of tolerance.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Despite a recent survey by the Religious Affairs Ministry confirming improved religious harmony in diverse neighborhoods, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), known for its c

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – After years of being labeled heretical following an edict on Shia issued by the East Java branch of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) in 2012, the headquarters of the Islam

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has revealed that Indonesia's democratic credentials remained on the same level between 2009 and 2014, with three pr

Jakarta – Mass media must put more focus on issues pertaining to minority groups to help them voice their aspirations.

Bekasi – Around a thousand protesters calling themselves the Bekasi Islamic Forum converged on the Bekasi city government offices west of Jakarta on Monday (07/03), to protest against the construct

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Fedina S.

Panca Nugraha, Mataram – Over 110 followers of the Ahmadiyah Muslim minority group who have been living at the Wisma Transito shelter in Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), for a decade are still de

Jakarta – Investigators of the general crimes directorate at the National Police Criminal Investigation Corps (Bareskrim) are looking to establish legal grounds on which to ascertain whether leader

New York – Local Indonesian authorities have banned the activities of the Ahmadiyah religious community in the town of Subang in West Java province, Human Rights Watch said today.

Jakarta – International human rights advocacy group Human Rights Watch urged President Joko Widodo's administration to lift a ban on the Ahmadiyah religious community placed by local authorities in

Jakarta – An Ahmadi group in Srimenanti, Bangka, has reportedly been discriminated against by the local administration, including being evicted.

Ahmad Junaidi, Jakarta – Women and children of the Ahmadiyah religious sect in a district in Bangka regency, Bangka Belitung province, were evacuated on Friday evening to save them from the wrath o

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Coordinating Human Development and Culture Minister Puan Maharani said on Thursday that the government should take legal action to follow up the recent Indonesian Ulema Coun

Safrin La Batu, Jakarta – Members of the former Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar) at the Bina Insan Rehabilitation Center in Cipayung, East Jakarta, are facing uncertain futures as they have nowhe

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has issued a fatwa against the Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar), declaring it a heretical organization that spreads deviant re

A member of the Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar), accompanied by human rights activists visited the headquarters of the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) on Monday to report the go

Nani Afrida, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) is calling on the government to protect Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar) members, following a plan to disband the group

Human-rights activists have slammed an investigation into the leader of the controversial Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar) by the Attorney General's Office (AGO), labeling it a violation of his r

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Muhammadiyah has advised the government against banning the controversial Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar), warning that doing so could backfire and lead the group's thous

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – The government should adhere to the 1945 Constitution in handling the Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar), an organization allegedly involved in recent missing pers

Jewel Topsfield and Karuni Rompies, Jakarta – A minority Muslim group has been ordered to convert to Sunni Islam or be expelled from Bangka island, off the coast of Sumatra, in the latest religious

Jakarta – As many as 118 Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar) members from West Kalimantan currently housed in Jakarta would undergo five days of "reeducation," Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama

Jewel Topsfield and Amilia Rosa, Kalimantan, Indonesia – A so-called "deviant sect" living in a remote farming community are besieged by a mob who burn their settlement to the ground.

Jakarta – The government is responsible for the eviction of over 500 former Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar) members from their homes and agricultural areas in West Kalimantan by locals because t

Suherdjoko, Semarang – About 1,500 members of the illegal Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar) will be housed in Semarang for re-education before they are sent back to their hometowns, officials have

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo has not delivered on his promise to protect religious freedom, according to human rights advocacy group the Setara Institute.

Jakarta – Rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) is calling on the government to immediately intervene to protect members of the Ahmadiyah religious community from intimidation and threats of expuls

New York – The Indonesian government should immediately intervene to protect members of the Ahmadiyah religious community from intimidation and threats of expulsion by local authorities on Bangka I

Yogyakarta – An inter-religion community of young disabled members and a number of non-governmental groups in Yogyakarta have sent a petition to President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo and religious organiz

Jakarta – The National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) has said it is concerned that the outlawed Fajar Nusantara Movement's (Gafatar) activities might trigger social friction, which could lead to v

Erika Anindita, Jakarta – As the members of the Gereja Kristen Indonesia (GKI) Taman Yasmin church in Bogor and the Batak Protestant Church (HKBP) Filadelfia from Bekasi were assembled

Jakarta – Unable to celebrate at their own premises, hundreds of members of two sealed church buildings in West Java have held their Christmas service in Jakarta for the fourth time.

Syamsul Hadi M.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Threats from a radical group have disrupted plans by an interfaith community to hold an event celebrating the births of both Prophet Muhammad and Jesus Ch

Jakarta – The government needs to push all educational institutions to actively promote values of tolerance and diversity because education plays an important role in encouraging the ba

Jakarta – The Bogor City administration's plan to relocate a church belonging to the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin congregation faces strong opposition from congregation memb

Jakarta – The central government is continuing to ignore religious-based discrimination and violence, with many cases going unresolved, human rights watchdogs have said.

Jakarta – Islamic hard-liners in Indonesia's least tolerant city have declared a national anti-Shiite movement, in a clear-cut case of hate speech that the police have blatantly chosen

Jakarta – Activists in the Jakarta satellite city of Bogor have filed suit against Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto for banning public celebrations of the Shiite holy day of Ashura last month.

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Leaders of the country's two largest Muslim organizations have condemned a plan from the so-called Anti-Shia National Alliance (Annas) to declare an anti-Shia movement on Sunda

Arya Dipa and Lita Aruperes, Bandung/Manado – The Purwakarta regional administration in West Java has issued a circular that guarantees the freedom of local residents to express their religious bel

Erika Anindita, Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has backed a proposal to expand the functions of a building to be constructed by the Christian Yasmin Church in Bogor,

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) on Thursday announced a plan to recruit 50,000 preachers and dispatch them across the country to promote moderate teachings of Islam.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Home Minister Tjahjo Kumulo said on Wednesday that his office would propose to revise a joint ministerial decree regulating the establishment of houses of worship, a regulat

Semarang – A house of worship of traditional Javanese belief-system, Sapta Darma, standing in Blando hamlet, Plawangan village, Rembang regency, Central Java, was burned down on Tuesday by a Muslim