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

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

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

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

Bayu Marhaenjati & Tunggadewa Mattangkilang – Jakarta/Balikpapan.

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

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.

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

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

Ansyor Idrus, Palembang – Certain residents in Talang Kelapa subdistrict, Alang-alang Lebar district in Palembang, South Sumatra, were up in arms Thursday over the construction of a Hur

Jakarta – The Religious Affairs Ministry is considering the creation of a directorate general for Confucianism, a Chinese philosophy that was banned during the New Order era and was onl

Elaine Pearson – Exactly three years ago, on 6 February 2011, some 1,500 Islamist militants stormed the Ahmadiyah community in Cikeusik village in western Java.

President Yudhoyono is all talk and no action when faced with government officials and militant groups intent on curbing the rights of women and religious minorities.

Camelia Pasandaran, Jepara, Central Java – A new report by the Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy, a nongovernmental organization that conducts human rights and political freedom

Josua Gantan – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali claimed that Indonesia was a bastion of religious tolerance on Thursday, setting off a chorus of critics who accused the contro

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – A request by the Yogyakarta branch of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) to the police to monitor, freeze or disband institutions or organizations whose m

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Tens of thousands mosques in West Java were built without building permits, head of the West Java chapter of the Indonesian Mosque Council Zulkarnaen said in Bandun

Indah Setiwati and Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Tens of thousands of people are expected to attend the inaugural Religious Harmony Day at the National Monument (Monas) in Central Jakarta on S

Robertus Wardi – The National Mandate Party has called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to take concrete action toward building tolerance in the country and to not only engage in e

Vento Saudale, Bogor – The embattled GKI Yasmin congregation in Bogor, West Java celebrated yet another Christmas in a makeshift worship space this year, in exile from their own church,

Bambang Muryanto, Sleman, Yogyakarta – Sleman Regent Sri Purnomo has been criticized by activists of the Yogyakarta Anti Violence Community (Makaryo) for attending a discussion forum on

Ainur Rohmah, Semarang – There were at least six alleged violations of religious freedom and seven cases of religious intolerance committed across Central Java in the period of 2012 to

The Dayak people of Central Kalimantan have expressed their strong opposition to the establishment of an anti-corruption center by the local branch of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI)

Lenny Tristia Tambun – Jakarta Deputy Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has spoken out against the requirement for a religion to be noted on national identification cards.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Muslim intellectual Dawam Rahardjo won the 2013 Yap Thiam Hien human rights award for what the committee described as his "consistent fight to uphold religious e

Camelia Pasandaran – A beleaguered Ahmadiyah congregation in Bekasi was handed a hollow victory on Thursday when a court invalidated a municipal order to board up the group's mosque – t

Camelia Pasandaran – Two more Indonesian churches have been taken out of commission in Sulawesi and West Java over the last week as Christians and local governments once again locked ho

Camelia Pasandaran & Amir Tedjo – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's visit to Sampang, East Java, has done little to resolve long-simmering tensions between local Sunni and Shia M

Jakarta – Members of religious minority groups have again spoken of the misery they have suffered for years due to what they claim is state-sponsored persecution.

Camelia Pasandaran – Two Ahmadiyah Muslim families left their homes in Jambi after members of a local Islamic boarding school offered the families an ultimatum: convert to Sunni Islam o

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