Lenny Tristia Tambun & Camelia Pasandaran – A protest by members of a religious forum that has called on the government to shut down a Catholic church in Tambora, West Jakarta, was

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Three churches in Makassar, South Sulawesi, became on Thursday the latest targets of violent attacks, which were committed by unidentified persons who threw

Camelia Pasandaran – Indonesia's beleaguered Ahmadiyah sect suffered another blow on Thursday as Bekasi's mayor announced plans to shutdown a Pondok Gede mosque as part of a city-wide c

Rebecca Lake, Sandra Siagian & Abdul Qowi Bastian – The wife of a church minister who was jailed two weeks ago for allegedly conducting a service without a permit also faces arrest

Farouk Arnaz – Police in Makassar, South Sulawesi, are standing guard outside churches after would-be arsonists hit two more churches in a second wave of attacks early Thursday morning.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono won praise from worldwide leaders of the Seventh Day Adventist church who thanked him for providing "wonderful religious l

Farouk Arnaz – The attempted firebombing of two Makassar churches was likely part of an attempt to spark religious tensions in South Sulawesi, the National Police said on Tuesday.

Mikael Niman – A Christian congregation in Bekasi district has become the latest in West Java province to face opposition from local hard-line Muslims on the grounds that it lacks the n

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar – Religious intolerance continues to cast its dark shadow over the country as two churches in Makassar, South Sulawesi, were attacked with Molotov cocktails on

Farouk Arnaz – Police are investigating a Sunday morning arson attempt on a church in Makassar, South Sulawesi, after three people hurled molotov cocktails at the facade in a botched at

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A member of the Islamic Defenders Front has received a three-and-a-half-month prison sentence for vandalizing a mosque run by Ahmadiyah devotees in Bandung, on the eve of Idul Adha last

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Cases of religious and ethnic intolerance across West Java are due to a lack of religious awareness, with such cases intensifying due to negligence on the part of t

Daniella White & Eileen McInnes – The year 2012 was a turbulent time for minority rights in Indonesia.

Yuliasri Perdani, Jakarta – The National Police have downplayed a report claiming them to be complicit in attacks against religious minorities in the country, adding that they have take

Jakarta – In the latest damning assessment of religious freedom in Indonesia, the New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) highlighted the government's failure to protect religious

Indonesia's growing regional prominence is being held back by the government's failure to confront intolerance of the country's diverse political and religious views.

Arya Dipa, Bandung – Around 200 members of the Banua Niho Keriso Protestan (BNKP) or the Nias Protestan Church in Bandung, West Java, were unable to conduct Sunday service following loc

Fitri, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Advocates of ethnic and religious tolerance have demanded that police immediately bring to justice those responsible for instigating an attack on Tu

Ina Parlina and Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono again called for religious tolerance in the country, a demand that will ring hollow among members of the S

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Representatives of displaced Shia adherents from Sampang, East Java, met with presidential advisor on human rights Albert Hasibuan on Wednesday to convey the

Yoseph Kelen, Kupang – Police in the East Nusa Tenggara island district of Lembata are closely monitoring a group who have syncretized various religions and are suspected of spreading d

Tasikmalaya – Thirty six followers of Ahmadiyah "converted" to Sunni Islam during a ceremony conducted at Agung grand mosque in Tasikmalaya, West Java, on Thursday.

Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The displaced Shiite community in East Java continues to face pressure to convert to "true" Islam if they wish to return to their homes in Sampang district

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Bhimanto Suwastoyo – Activists and experts on Wednesday said that the national government, including its officials and laws, were to blame for rising intolerance in the country.

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International is calling on the Indonesian government to end its discrimination against the Shiite Muslim minority in Madura, East Java, and guarantee the

ID/Novy Lumanauw & Arientha Primanita – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called for the nation not to ignore the voice of minorities in what he insisted was a multicultural de

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Jakarta – The Indonesian Minister of Religious Affairs, Suryadharma Ali, has stated that Indonesia has become a model of tolerance in religious and national diversity for the world.

Jakarta, Indonesia – The congregation of beleaguered Filadelfia Christian Protestant Church (HKBP) failed to conduct a New Year's Eve service as hundreds of local residents, police and

Jakarta – The increasing religious intolerance across the nation is more than enough to show the government's failure to defend freedom of religion, according to the Wahid Institute.

Jakarta – Members of two Christian congregations in Greater Jakarta who faced intimidation when trying to worship in their churches during Christmas have again lamented the police's fai

Jakarta – Members of two Christian congregations whose churches have been forcibly closed down by local governments held a Christmas service in front of the Presidential Palace in Centr

More than 200 Indonesian Muslims threw rotten eggs at Christians wanting to hold a Christmas mass near land outside Jakarta where they plan to build a church, police and a witness said.

Vento Saudale – Dozens of members from the GKI Yasmin congregation were denied entry into their church in Bogor on Tuesday morning to hold a Christmas service, after local residents blo

Bayu Marhaenjati, Rachmat & Ronna Nirmala – Jakarta/Makassar – A heavy police presence at churches across the capital helped ensure that Christians in Jakarta were able to celebrate

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Rabby Pramudatama, Jakarta – Conservative Muslim leaders are not stopping with edicts forbidding Muslims from wishing Christians a Merry Christmas.

Markus Junianto Sihaloho – A seminar on agnostics and ancestral beliefs revealed that agnostics and followers of unofficial religions are often denied civil rights in Indonesia because

Bambang Muryanto – The Sleman administration sealed Elshaddai Pentecostal Church on Jl. Pringgodiningrat in Tridadi village, Sleman, on Wednesday afternoon due to a permit issue.

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Dessy Sagita – For another year running, Islamic clerics have raised a ruckus about the question of whether Muslims can wish others a "Merry Christmas" or celebrate the holiday.

Ezra Sihite – For all his rhetoric on the importance of religious pluralism, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has failed to take meaningful action to maintain tolerance in the country

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Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – As the world commemorated Human Rights Day on Dec.

Sampang, Indonesia – Condemned as heretics, a community of around 200 Shiite Muslims have for months lived as pariahs in a sports hall, driven from their Indonesian village after a dead

Robert Isidorus, Jayapura – A legal aid activist in Papua has said the recent unrest in Manokwari, West Papua, is a clear indication of efforts to destabilize the region to prompt a nee

Rossie Indira and Andre Vltchek – Indonesia's Shi'ite minority is under heavy attack. Men, women, and children have been assaulted, schools damaged, and villages burned to the ground.

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