Jakarta – The Setara Institute announced on Monday that this year's elections had reduced the number of violations against religious minorities, as people channeled their religious prej

Dina Manafe, Jakarta – The number of violations of religious freedom in Indonesia has decreased dramatically in the first half of the year, a watchdog said on Monday, adding however tha

Jakarta – The Indonesian Baha'i Society thanked the government on Thursday for officially recognizing the monotheistic faith as a religion, after Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim

Josua Gantan, Jakarta – The US State Department's 2013 Report on International Religious Freedom accuses the Indonesian government of having failed to ensure religious freedom in the na

Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi defended on Monday the recent move by local authorities to prohibit hundreds of internally displaced Shia from returning to their home

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Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Sleman regency administration in Yogyakarta province has brokered a peace agreement between the heads of the El Shaddai Pentecostal Church and Muslim

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Hundreds of Muslims from grassroots and marginalized communities joined breaking of the fast events held recently at two separate churches in Bandung, West Java, as

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Indonesian Ahmadi Congregation (JAI) on Friday unsealed Nur Khilafat Mosque in Ciamis, West Java, which was had been closed by the regency's Public Order Agency

Jakarta – The National Police replaced on Friday Yogyakarta Police chief Brig. Gen. Haka Astana Mantika Widya with Brig. Gen.

The closure of an Ahmadiyya place of worship by local authorities in West Java is a disturbing and arbitrary move, and just the latest example of ongoing repression of religious minorit

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Ciamis regency administration in West Java banned members of the Ahmadiyah community from undertaking religious activities at Nur Khilafat Mosque in Ciamis on T

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – While the Prabowo Subianto-Hatta Rajasa ticket is embracing firebrand groups in its coalition, the Joko "Jokowi" Widodo-Jusuf Kalla ticket says it will enfor

Jakarta – Jakarta Acting Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama said that he supported the removal of religion status from Indonesia's national identity card, or KTP, after a member of Indones

SP/Carlos Paath, Jakarta – The campaign team of presidential candidate Joko Widodo said that Joko would remove the designation of religion on the national identity card to prevent discr

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Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – Yogyakarta Police have named the pastor of the beleaguered El Shaddai Pentacostal Church a suspect over an alleged building permit violation after an angry

Bambang Muryanto – One hard-line group allegedly involved in violent acts in Yogyakarta is the Islamic Jihad Front (FJI).

Sri Wahyuni and Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Yogyakarta's reputation as a city of tolerance for people of all religions is slipping.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Bishops Conference (KWI) has called on the next government to step up efforts to safeguard religious freedom through legal means.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The government bears responsibility for the rise of religious intolerance across the archipelago over the past few years, according to Christian Solidarit

Sri Wahyuni and Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Muslim leaders and activists in Yogyakarta have expressed regret over the preaching of cleric Ja'far Umar Thalib on Sunday that focused on

Bambang Muryanto and Sri Wahyuni, Yogyakarta – Preacher Ja'far Umar Thalib whose followers have been linked to alleged religion-based conflict, told Muslims in a Yogyakarta mosque on Su

Jakarta – Pluralism in the country is in danger of being eroded as intolerant groups flex their political muscle ahead of the presidential election.

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – Religious intolerance is an ongoing problem in Central Java, as the province saw several cases of religious-based violence in the first six months of 2014, said

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Rights activists have slammed National Police chief Gen.

Josua Gantan – Church officials in Cianjur, West Java, have reported local authorities to the national human rights commission for forcing shut seven churches there, the latest targets

Bambang Muryanto and Arya Dipa, Yogyakarta/Bandung – The Yogyakarta police have been blamed for the rise in sectarian violence in the province due to their failure to treat the incident

Jakarta – Members of various church congregations from Cianjur, West Java, have filed their complaints with the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) following a series of fo

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – On the anniversary of the introduction of the state ideology Pancasila on June 1, an act of intolerance occurred in Yogyakarta as residents and members of

Jakarta – The Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) says the attack on a Catholic group in a house in Sleman regency, Yogyakarta on Thursday, was related more to political issues rather than rel

Bambang Muryanto and Yuliasri Perdani, Yogyakarta/Jakarta – Yogyakarta has long been known as a province of peace, but increasing intolerance directed at religious minorities in recent

Jakarta – The Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras), a non-governmental organization advocating human rights issues, wants President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Camelia Pasandaran & SP/Mikael Niman, Jakarta – The municipal government of Bekasi, West Java on Friday resealed a mosque belonging to members of the beleaguered Ahmadiyah religious

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Members of the Yogyakarta Anti Violence Community (Makaryo) have called on law enforcers in Gunungkidul regency, Yogyakarta, to prosecute perpetrators of

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West java – Ahmadis in Ciamis, West Java, are observing their religious activities as usual at the Nur Khilafat Mosque, despite a call from the local Indonesian Ulem

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – An Ahmadiyah community in West Java has lashed out at a call for a ban on its activities by the country's highest clerical council, which only days earlier

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The National Police are reluctant to act against the alleged hate speech made at an anti-Shia declaration, an event attended by more than 1,000 people in Ban

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Jakarta – The congregation of the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin urged recently inaugurated Bogor Mayor Bima Arya Sugiarto to act on his promise to reopen their church before

Arya Dipa, Bandung – More than 1,000 people attended an anti-Shia declaration on Sunday at the Al Fajr mosque in the West Java capital of Bandung, in what appeared to be the first organ

Arya Dipa, Bandung, West Java – Shia followers in Bandung, West Java, have filed a protest with local authorities over a planned declaration by the Anti-Shia National Alliance, schedule

Yuli Krisna, Bandung – A planned declaration in Bandung to denounce the Shiite community turned into a fiery call for jihad, or holy war, against the much-maligned minority group.

Haeril Halim and Arya Dipa, Jakarta/Bandung – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has yet to clearly state its stance over the upcoming declaration by the National Anti-Shia Alliance at

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – A hard-line Sunni Islamic group says it will host an anti-Shiite declaration in Bandung on Sunday, to be attended by the West Java governor, in the latest

Panca Nugraha and Ainur Rahmah, Semarang/Mataram – Halimah, 42, arrived early at the polling station (TPS) with her 6-year-old daughter, Natasha Januari Saputri, near their shelter in M

Jakarta – Several non-governmental organizations (NGOs), led by The Wahid Institute, have supported the efforts of the congregation of the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin in Bo

Jakarta – Over 100 members of the Islamic Peoples Forum (FUI) staged a protest in front of the construction site of the St.

Camelia Pasandaran, Jakarta – A West Java court threw out a Bekasi government-issued building permit for a Catholic church on Thursday, ruling that the church congregation failed to ope

Jakarta – The Surabaya District Court sentenced 10 men to six months in prison over their roles in a violent rampage in Jember, East Java, that left a popular Islamic boarding school an