Yogyakarta – Indonesian Islamic Front (FUI) members asked dozens of Afghan asylum seekers placed at Ambarbinangun Youth Hall in Bantul, Yogyakarta, to leave the country because of their Shia belief

Jakarta – At least 30 asylum seekers hailing mainly from Afghanistan had to be relocated from their temporary shelter in Yogyakarta after an anti-Shiite mob stormed into their compound on Monday ev

Nethy Dharma Somba, Jayapura – Hundreds of Indonesian Military personnel have been dispatched to extinguish spot fires across southern Papua that have caused thick smoke and disrupted flights at Mo

National – Indonesia's second largest Islamic organization, Muhammadiyah, has rejected the government's plan to declare Oct.

The joint ministerial decree on the building of houses of worship needs to be revised to avoid religious intolerance, said Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo on Tuesday.

Aceh Singkil – Authorities in Aceh province on Monday began tearing down several small Christian churches after hard-line Muslims demanded their closure, citing a lack of building permits, and foll

Jakarta – Indonesian Ulema Coucil (MUI) chairman Din Syamsuddin said that President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's plan to name Oct. 22 a national santri (Islamic students) day was ill-advised.

Surabaya – A Muslim organization has reported a local footwear manufacturer to the East Java Police for sacrilege for producing sandals embossed with the word Allah.

Djemi Amnifu, Kupang – East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) authorities have officially banned Islamic group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) from conducting any activities in the province arguing that the organi

Jakarta – Muslims in Tolikara, Papua, who clashed with a local church congregation in July, celebrated a peaceful Idul Adha holiday on Thursday.

Jakarta – Wahid Institute director Yenny Wahid called on Indonesians to spread more peaceful messages during the opening of the International Peace Day at City Hall in Jakarta on Sunday.

Jakarta – Hundreds of supporters of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) Muslim organization staged a rally in front of Madrasah Aliyah Negeri (MAN) 2 state Islamic senior high school in Purwokerto, Central Ja

Bogor – A prolonged spat over the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin in Bogor, West Java, has once more drawn attention from abroad, with a US rights body witnessing in situ the situation fac

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The National Meeting of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) in Surabaya, East Java on Thursday elected senior cleric Ma'ruf Amin as chairman of the organization for the 2015-

Jakarta – A state elementary school in Banyuasin, South Sumatra, has banned its students from wearing veils while at school.

Djemi Amnifu, Kupang – Kupang has initiated the development of "Kampung Toleransi Beragama" (religious tolerance village) in the Transad area, Naibonat subdistrict, Kupang Regency, East Nusa Tengga

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Bekasi – The Bekasi administration has decided to halt the construction of Santa Clara Catholic Church in Bekasi, West Java, despite no flaws being found in the administrative documents, following

Deti Mega Purnamasari, Jakarta – Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama has once again come to the defense of a religious minority congregation targeted by Islamic hard-liners, this time siding wi

Djemi Amnifu, Kupang – The Indonesian Ulema Council's (MUI) East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) chapter has rejected the plan by Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) to hold a halal bihalal (Idul Fitri friendship me

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Persatuan Islam (Persis) Muslim group, which has a stronghold in West Java, has assured the safety of churches in the province following the Tolikara tragedy in Papua.

Nethy Dharma Somba and Ina Parlina, Jayapura/Jakarta – Muslim and Christian communities in Tolikara, Papua, reached a peace agreement on Wednesday following last week's riot in which angered masses

Bambang Muryanto and Suherdjoko – The Bantul regency administration in Yogyakarta has requested members of an Indonesian Baptist Church (GBI) congregation in Saman hamlet, Sewon district, to tempor

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The Home Ministry is planning to curb discriminatory bylaws that have become the source of conflict in regions throughout the archipelago.

Jakarta – Among a line of empty houses on Jl.

Andreyka Natalegawa, Jakarta – Members of the Ahmadiyah community in Indonesia continue to be discriminated against and religious leaders say a comprehensive, multi-pronged approach is needed to ad

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – In the early morning of Monday, local residents in Bantul, Yogyakarta, and Purworejo, Central Java, managed to foil attempts by unidentified persons to burn down two

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Bantul Police in Yogyakarta on Tuesday managed to prevent a local Muslim group from forcibly shutting down an Indonesian Baptist Church in Sewon district after ex

Lenny Tristia Tambun, Jakarta – Basuki Tjahaja Purnama on Wednesday did something no other Indonesian leader has done since the late Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid was president: the Jakarta governor

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Around 30 members of the Islamic Jihad Front (FJI) have attempted to close down the Indonesian Baptist Church in Bantul, Yogyakarta, on grounds that the church had no

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – At least five churches and a religious tourism site in Yogyakarta are on the edge of being forced into closure this year following pressure from local Muslim groups,

Bambang Muryanto, Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta – A group of people representing the Gunungkidul Muslim Youth Forum, the Yogyakarta Islamic Congregation Forum (FUI) and local residents have urged the Gun

Jakarta – Members of an Indonesian minority Islamic sect protested on Thursday against the forced closure of one of their mosques amid concerns over rising religious intolerance in a country which

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Erwin Sihombing, Jakarta – The Indonesian police are reluctant to crack down on hate speech, including by hard-line Islamic groups, because there are no "rewards" for doing so and they fear a backl

Andreyka Natalegawa, Jakarta – Government institutions on all levels still have plenty of work to do if they want to end religious intolerance in Indonesia, observers say in response to a new repor

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The Islamic Jihad Front (FJI), with police backing, has broken up a camping event of 1,500 Christian elementary and junior high school students at the Wonogondang cam

Whistle-blowing website Wikileaks has published more than 60,000 secret documents from Saudi Arabia and said that it had more than half a million additional documents that it will be releasing in t

Jakarta – A coalition of rights groups are urging President Joko Widodo to stay true to his campaign promises to protect minority groups and ensure the safe return of a Shiite community to their ho

Indra Budiari, Jakarta – A week after being blocked from their Friday prayers in the An Nur Mosque in Bukit Duri Tanjakan, Tebet, South Jakarta, around 50 members of the Bukit Duri Ahmadi congregat

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) says the current regulation on building houses of worship contributes to religious conflict.

Jakarta – Conservative politicians and clerics have lashed out at Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim Saifuddin over his seemingly benign call for mutual respect and understanding between Musli

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) was sticking to its stance that Ahmadiyah and Shia believers were deviant from mainstream Islam but nonetheless prosecuting them for follo

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Jakarta – President Joko Widodo has echoed Vice President Jusuf Kalla's claim that Indonesia's brand of Islam is a peaceful one, on the same weekend that hard-liners in Ja

Jakarta – A hard-line Islamic group infamous for its violent brand of intolerance says it will continue efforts to expel Ahmadiyah Muslims practicing in Tebet, South Jakarta.

Jakarta – Dozens of people blocked a group of Ahmadis from performing their Friday prayers at their own An Nur Mosque in Bukit Duri Tanjakan, Tebet, South Jakarta, on Friday.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has issued a fatwa, or religious edict, stating that only government-recognized Islamic organizations, such as itself, should be able to call any people

Jakarta – The drafted bill on the protection of religious communities does not protect minorities that are under increasing persecution; the government is not showing progress in upholding religiou

Jakarta – Representatives from churches in Papua say the central government has not done enough to protect the rights of indigenous people there, despite President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo's recent vis

Jakarta – The chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest Muslim organization, Said Aqil Siradj, has said that Indonesia was founded on values of peace and tolerance, and not exclusivel