Mikael Niman & Camelia Pasandaran, Bekasi – The Bekasi district court on Thursday sentenced a man who threatened a Batak Protestant Congregation (HKBP) church pastor Palti Panjaitan
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September 13, 2013
September 6, 2013
Jakarta – The Makassar Legal Aid Institute (LBH) has lambasted the acquittal of Nur Ansari, the suspect in the firebombing of five churches in the city, on all charges saying that the v
September 5, 2013
Arientha Primanita – The government has no plans to disband the Ahmadiyah congregation in Bekasi, despite a request from the municipality.
September 3, 2013
Phelim Kine – My preparation for a news conference in February launching a Human Rights Watch report on Indonesia's rising religious intolerance included an emergency escape drill.
September 2, 2013
Worshipers from displaced church congregations took their anger to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's door on Sunday, calling for him to take a leaf out of Jakarta Governor Joko Widod
August 29, 2013
Sita W.
August 28, 2013
Jakarta – Around 100 people staged a protest in front of the Lenteng Agung sub-district office in Jagakarsa, South Jakarta, on Wednesday, demanding the dismissal of a newly installed Ch
August 27, 2013
Margareth S.
August 26, 2013
Index: ASA 21/029/2013
Anushka Shahjahan – Displaced Shia residents from the trouble-plagued East Java island of Madura must be allowed to return home safely, voluntarily and with dignity, Amnesty Internation
August 25, 2013
Jakarta – The new head of Lenteng Agung subdistrict in South Jakarta, Susan Jasmine Zulkifli, 43, whose replacement on sectarian grounds was demanded on Monday, has won the support of m
August 22, 2013
An Open Letter from the Asian Human Rights Commission to the Chief of the Indonesian Police, Gen. Timur Pradopo.
Lenny Tristia Tambun – The Jakarta administration says it will not bow to pressure from a group of South Jakarta residents requesting the dismissal of their local ward chief for being a
August 20, 2013
Sita W.
Phelim Kine – In early June, the Indonesian government erected a 16-foot gleaming white statue of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, on Washington's Embassy Row.
August 18, 2013
Ina Parlina and Margareth S.
August 16, 2013
Ezra Sihite – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono sought on Friday to defend Indonesia against accusations that the republic was descending into greater religious intolerance.
August 15, 2013
Andreas Harsono – The plight of the Al-Mujahadah Foundation madrassa in southern Aceh illustrates the perils of rising religious intolerance for Indonesia's religious minorities.
August 14, 2013
Margareth S.
Ezra Sihite – Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi said he did not believe recent reports that Shia Muslims in Sampang district, East Java, were subjected to forced conversions by local
August 13, 2013
Margareth S.
Camelia Pasandaran – Many Shiite Muslims returning to Madura for Idul Fitri last week were given an ultimatum that forced them to convert to Sunnism or leave the troubled East Java isla
August 12, 2013
Margareth S.
Camelia Pasandaran – As millions of Muslims flocked to mosques across Indonesia on the morning of Idul Fitri last Thursday, a small group braved the early morning chill, considerable di
August 10, 2013
Jakarta – Din Syamsuddin, the chairman of Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah, said on Saturday that there should not have been any forced belief in the process
August 9, 2013
Margareth Aritonang, Jakarta – Former vice president Jusuf Kalla warned that forced conversion imposed on members of the Shia community in Sampang, East Java during the reconciliation p
August 8, 2013
Margareth Aritonang, Jakarta – Home Minister Gamawan Fauzi rejected accusations centering on the government's alleged ultimatum to the displaced Sampang Shiites – convert to the "true"
July 31, 2013
Margareth S.
July 30, 2013
Margareth S.
July 29, 2013
Jakarta – "I don't want my friends to turn away from me when I tell them who I am," said 13-year-old Ardan, not his real name, on Saturday during a story-telling event at the Jakarta Le
July 28, 2013
Arientha Primanita – Sampang's persecuted Shiite Muslim minority, fearful of another round of forced conversions by Sunni Muslims, called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to ensure
July 26, 2013
Corry Elyda, Jakarta – Prosecutors sought on Thursday a suspended sentence for Abdul Azis, the defendant of a harassment case in last year's attack against the Congregation of Batak Pro
Camelia Pasandaran – Two Ahmadiyah teachers and a school attendant have left a state elementary school in Cianjur following pressure from local residents.
July 25, 2013
SP/Mikael Niman – Prosecutors demanded a three-month sentence for a man who threatened to kill the pastor of Bekasi's embattled HKBP Filadelfia church during a tense Easter protest by h
July 24, 2013
A central government plan to allow Madura Island's persecuted Shiites to return home from exile in Sidoarjo, East Java, hinges on the proposal's acceptance by local religious leaders –
July 19, 2013
Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – The government has denied making any promises to the displaced Shia community from Sampang, Madura, that they would return home soon.
July 18, 2013
Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia's Religious Affairs Minister, in an apparent attempt to downplay the nation's rising tide of religious intolerance, suggested that inter-faith strife is "
July 16, 2013
Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has endorsed the decision by the East Java administration to relocate 235 Shiites from Sampang, Madura Island, to Sidaoarj
July 15, 2013
Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Sidoarjo, East Java – For the first time in his life, Jawi, 42, a Shiite who was evicted from his hometown in Bluuran village in Sampang regency, Madura, East Java
July 11, 2013
Panca Nugraha, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – The National Commission of Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has detected strong indications of human rights violations behind the settlement of Ahm
Ina Parlina, Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali, in response to criticism from local and foreign institutions that say the country turns a blind eye to religious perse
Index: ASA 21/024/2013
July 10, 2013
Panca Nugraha, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – While almost everybody else is welcoming Ramadhan with happiness and smiles, for 116 Ahmadis who are now living at the Transito house in Mat
July 9, 2013
Stephanie Hendarta – Violence between Sunni and Shiite Muslims on East Java's Madura Island and an attack on an Ahmadiyah community in West Java are among the 282 cases of religious vio
July 2, 2013
Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has formed a team to help members of the Sampang Shia community, violently evicted from their homes.
Stephanie Hendarta – Human rights observers have called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to step in to support a persecuted group of Shiites in East Java, and by so doing fulfill a
June 30, 2013
Permitting local authorities to act as the de facto agents of religious extremists sends a dangerous and destabilizing message that majority communities can do whatever they want agains
June 28, 2013
The Indonesian government denied accusations of a conspiracy to oust Shiite Muslims from the conflict-prone district of Sampang, Madura Island, following the forced relocation of 162 Sh
June 24, 2013
Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – Rights activists have called on the New York-based interfaith organization the Appeal of Conscience Foundation (ACF) to reconsider its decision to grant Pres
June 21, 2013
Further information on UA: 336/12 Index: ASA 21/022/2013 Indonesia Date: 21 June 2013