Arientha Primanita & Camelia Pasandaran – The Bogor church at the center of a major dispute that has highlighted growing discrimination against religious minorities in Indonesia, on Wednesday labeled Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi a "liar."

Speaking at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, Gamawan claimed that a decision on whether the embattled GKI Yasmin congregation would be allowed to hold Christmas Day celebrations in its sealed church would be decided after a meeting on Wednesday.

"If the [West Java] provincial police say that it is safe based on the information gathered by police, they [GKI Yasmin] will celebrate [in the church]," Gamawan said. "But if the police advise to hold it in another place, they will hold it in other place."

Church spokesman Bona Sigalingging, however, told the Jakarta Globe that no such meeting had taken place or even been scheduled.

He said a meeting was planned for Thursday but had nothing to do with where the congregation would be allowed to hold Christmas celebrations. "The meeting is about church security during Christmas celebrations – It means that he [Gamawan] lied again."

He said the congregation was determined to mark Christmas in its own church.