Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – In the early morning of Monday, local residents in Bantul, Yogyakarta, and Purworejo, Central Java, managed to foil attempts by unidentified persons to burn down two

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Andreyka Natalegawa, Jakarta – Members of the Ahmadiyah community in Indonesia continue to be discriminated against and religious leaders say a comprehensive, multi-pronged approach is needed to ad

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Bantul Police in Yogyakarta on Tuesday managed to prevent a local Muslim group from forcibly shutting down an Indonesian Baptist Church in Sewon district after ex

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Basuki Tjahaja Purnama on Wednesday did something no other Indonesian leader has done since the late Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid was president: the Jakarta governor

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Around 30 members of the Islamic Jihad Front (FJI) have attempted to close down the Indonesian Baptist Church in Bantul, Yogyakarta, on grounds that the church had no

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – At least five churches and a religious tourism site in Yogyakarta are on the edge of being forced into closure this year following pressure from local Muslim groups,

Bambang Muryanto, Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta – A group of people representing the Gunungkidul Muslim Youth Forum, the Yogyakarta Islamic Congregation Forum (FUI) and local residents have urged the Gun

Jakarta – Members of an Indonesian minority Islamic sect protested on Thursday against the forced closure of one of their mosques amid concerns over rising religious intolerance in a country which

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Erwin Sihombing, Jakarta – The Indonesian police are reluctant to crack down on hate speech, including by hard-line Islamic groups, because there are no "rewards" for doing so and they fear a backl

Andreyka Natalegawa, Jakarta – Government institutions on all levels still have plenty of work to do if they want to end religious intolerance in Indonesia, observers say in response to a new repor

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Islamic Jihad Front (FJI), with police backing, has broken up a camping event of 1,500 Christian elementary and junior high school students at the Wonogondang cam

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has published more than 60,000 secret documents from Saudi Arabia and said that it had more than half a million additional documents that it will be releasing in t

Jakarta – A coalition of rights groups are urging President Joko Widodo to stay true to his campaign promises to protect minority groups and ensure the safe return of a Shiite community to their ho

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – A week after being blocked from their Friday prayers in the An Nur Mosque in Bukit Duri Tanjakan, Tebet, South Jakarta, around 50 members of the Bukit Duri Ahmadi congregat

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) says the current regulation on building houses of worship contributes to religious conflict.

Jakarta – Conservative politicians and clerics have lashed out at Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin over his seemingly benign call for mutual respect and understanding between Musli

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) was sticking to its stance that Ahmadiyah and Shia believers were deviant from mainstream Islam but nonetheless prosecuting them for follo

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo has echoed Vice President Jusuf Kalla's claim that Indonesia's brand of Islam is a peaceful one, on the same weekend that hard-liners in Ja

Jakarta – A hard-line Islamic group infamous for its violent brand of intolerance says it will continue efforts to expel Ahmadiyah Muslims practicing in Tebet, South Jakarta.

Jakarta – Dozens of people blocked a group of Ahmadis from performing their Friday prayers at their own An Nur Mosque in Bukit Duri Tanjakan, Tebet, South Jakarta, on Friday.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has issued a fatwa, or religious edict, stating that only government-recognized Islamic organizations, such as itself, should be able to call any people

Jakarta – The drafted bill on the protection of religious communities does not protect minorities that are under increasing persecution; the government is not showing progress in upholding religiou

Jakarta – Representatives from churches in Papua say the central government has not done enough to protect the rights of indigenous people there, despite President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's recent vis

Jakarta – The chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest Muslim organization, Said Aqil Siradj, has said that Indonesia was founded on values of peace and tolerance, and not exclusivel

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) issued a report on Tuesday demanding the government issue better laws on tolerance and properly enforce existing laws on religious dis

Hizbul Ridho, Jakarta – A state university in South Kalimantan has drawn the ire of one of Indonesia's Islamic political parties for its decision to ban female students from attending class in a ni

Bambang Muryanto, Magelang, Central Java – Muslim and Buddhist leaders from South and Southeast Asia have issued the Yogyakarta Statement, which refuses the use of Islam and Buddha in the politics

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Experts have warned that implementation of the Blasphemy Law could lead to the radicalization of Muslims.

Fedina S. Sundaryani, Jakarta – Religious leaders are urging Muslims nationwide to take the lead in promoting religious tolerance in multicultural Indonesia.

Jakarta – The Ministry of Religious Affairs has almost completed drafting a bill on protecting freedom of religion in Indonesia, saying a new law is necessary to keep the peace in society by, for i

Slamet Susanto, Yogyakarta – Around a thousand Muslim intellectuals, clerics and representatives from various Islamic organizations are currently gathering in Yogyakarta to discuss Islam and other

Corry Elyda, Jakarta – The continuing saga of the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin has yet to see any light at the end of the tunnel as the latest discussions among stakeholders, facilitate

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Jakarta – Indonesia's largest Muslim organization, the Nahdlatul Ulama, says it is ready to mediate talks between the Bogor administration and the GKI Yamin congregation over the sealing of a churc

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta, previously dubbed the city of tolerance, has been ranked second for intolerance and violations of religious freedom by the Wahid Institute in its 2014 ann

Kennial Caroline Laia, Jakarta – The absence of major cases of violence stemming from religious intolerance in Indonesia this year by no means indicates that the issue has been resolved

Bambang Muryanto and Suherjoko, Yogyakarta/Semarang – Christians across Indonesia celebrated Christmas on Thursday in different ways, although some could not conduct celebrations in the

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Jakarta – Vice President Jusuf Kalla has declared Indonesia the most tolerant Muslim-majority country in the world, in a Christmas Day message that came as authorities in Bogor, south o

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Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) says it received 67 reports of instances of religious intolerance in Indonesia this year, nearly double the figure from la

Vento Saudale, Bogor, West Java – The row over a ban on a church congregation from holding a service on Christmas Day continued on Tuesday as Bogor Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto said the GKI

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Jakarta – The congregation of an illegally sealed-off church in Bogor have called on President Joko Widodo and the city's mayor, Bima Arya Sugiarto, to keep their campaign promises to r

Farouk Arnaz, Jakarta – Indonesia's National Police have pledged to crack down on violence against religious minorities.