Jakarta – An alliance providing legal advocacy on religion freedom is to hold a national symposium in December to discuss common social and human rights problems in Central and Eastern Indonesia.

Hermandari, chairwoman of the symposium's steering committee, said the National Alliance for the Diversity in Unity (ANBTI) organized the symposium as all sides have similar concerns over common problems and similar concepts on how to resolve them.

She said delegates from 17 provinces, including Bali and Kalimantan, would attend the event and the committee had made an inventory of the problems to be discussed.

"The issuance of sectarian bylaws is a serious threat to democracy and is contrary to the Constitution and Pancasila state ideology," she said.