Jakarta – A mob ransacked and torched a church in the south of Indonesia's Sumatra island, a report said Wednesday.

About a dozen men attacked the small church at Kampung Tanjung in Lampung province early Monday, the Media Indonesia daily said. They ransacked it and stole clothes and jewels belonging to the churchwarden before setting it alight, the paper said. Local police could not immediately be reached for confirmation. The paper said the motive for the attack was being investigated. The attackers were believed to have come from the area.

Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim-populated nation with over 80 percent of its more than 210 million people following Islam.

The state, however, provides equal footing for the five religions it recognizes – Islam, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, Buddhism and Hinduism.

In September, 23 houses and at least one church were torched in an attack by a 200-strong mob on a village in Indonesia's West Java province.