Jakarta – Increasing religious intolerance as documented in a recent survey should be blamed on official indecisiveness in confronting hostile radical groups, an activist has said.

Jakarta – A recent study from one of Indonesia's rights watchdogs shows that Christians face the most religious rights violations.

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-087-2012

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Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-086-2012

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Arientha Primanita – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali refuted claims that the Indonesian government had poor record protecting minorities on Wednesday, calling Indonesia "the

Mataram – The West Nusa Tenggara government put dozens of Ahamdiyah Muslims at the bottom of its list to register for an electronic identity card, known as e-KTP.

The Asian Human Rights Commission called on Bekasi district Chief Neneng Hasanah Yasin to safeguard religious freedom and to enforce the law following several cases of assault, violence

Agus Triyono – Trying to counter the growing intolerance in Indonesia, the country's two largest Muslim organizations have expressed support for the protection of people's constitutiona

AHRC-OLT-009-2012

Dr. Hj. Neneng Hasanah Yasin
Regent of Bekasi
Komp. Perkantoran Pemerintah Bekasi
Desa Sukamahi, Kec. Cikarang Pusat
INDONESIA

Jakarta – An angry mob once again assaulted the members of the Congregation of Batak Protestant Churches (HKBP) Filadelfia on Sunday morning as the parishioners were trying to attend th

Ronna Nirmala – "Why would they build a church here when most of the residents are Muslim?" Taupik says. "What reason could they have unless it was to convert us all?"

Margareth S. Aritonang, Jakarta – The House of Representatives plans to summon National Police chief Gen.

Jakarta – The Congregation of Batak Protestant Churches (HKBP) Filadelfia branch will file a report to the National Police headquarters in Jakarta following Thursday's mob attack agains

Sita W. Dewi and Novia D.

Camelia Pasandaran – A mob of Islamic hard-liners threw stones and bags of urine at the HKBP Filadelphia congreagation of the Batak Christian Protestant Church in Bekasi, on the outskir

Jakarta – Because of his refusal to obey the ruling from the Supreme Court, together with his defiance of various recommendations from the National Resilience Council (Wantannas) and th

Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – Another Christian house of worship has been sealed off in Aceh Singkil district, bringing the total since last week to 17 and marking a new low for religious

Kupang – A local Interreligious Harmony Forum (FKUB) is questioning the construction of two mosques in Timor Tengah Utara, East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) that allegedly lack the required endo

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-071-2012

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Nurdin Hasan, Banda Aceh – The Aceh administration has shut down at least 16 Christian places of worship since May 2, alleging they were being run without permits and had been drawing c

Theresia Sufa and Lutfi Rakhmawati, Bogor – Hopes for significant progress in the protracted dispute over the sealed Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin appeared to be fading again

Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – A journalist says he is avoiding local police and has filed a complaint with the National Police claiming that the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) disrupted se

Jakarta – Worshippers from the Filadelfia Batak Protestant Union (HKBP) church in Bekasi regency, West Java, again were stopped from performing Sunday services by a mob of local residen

Dicky Christanto, Jakarta – A rights activist from the Association of Journalists for Diversity (Sejuk), Tantowi Anwari, was stripped and beaten by dozens of members of the notorious Is

Theresia Sufa, Bogor – The congregation of the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin in Taman Yasmin, Bogor, West Java, demanded on Friday that the city administration abide by the l

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung – Clerics from various Islamic organizations in West Java affiliated with the Indonesian Ulema and Ummah Forum (FUUI) have called on the public to be wary of S

Jakarta – Human rights activists and political observers have criticized the outcome of a recent meeting between the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin in Bogor, West Java, and th

Jakarta – The government will monitor anti-Shiite groups in the regions of West Java and East Java "very seriously", Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Nasaruddin Umar has warned.

Camelia Pasandaran – Bogor's embattled GKI Yasmin church can reopen, as long as a mosque is built next door, Bogor mayor Diani Budiarto said in a letter to the Presidential Advisory Boa

Police in Tasikmalaya, West Java, said they were investigating whether an attack on a mosque belonging to the Ahmadiyah minority Islamic sect in Kotawaringin village actually occurred.

UA: 121/12 Index: ASA 21/018/2012 Indonesia Date: 30 April 2012

Michael Victor Sianipar – Efforts by the government to insert itself more prominently into religious matters, coupled with its unclear stance on the role of religion in the state, will

Wahyoe Boediwardhana and Indra Harsaputra, Surabaya – The East Java provincial administration may go ahead with its plan to issue a bylaw on the spread of religion regarded as capable o

Indra Harsaputra and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Jakarta – Sunni ulemas in Madura and other areas of East Java are asking the provincial administration to enact a regulation to limit the prop

Jakarta – A leader of the country's second-largest Muslim organization says the Ahmadiyah sect are members of Islamic society despite some of their beliefs differing from more mainstrea

Jakarta – Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Nasaruddin Umar has won support from interfaith activists with his call for the National Police to take seriously the attack on an Ahmadiyah

Indra Harsaputra, Sampang – Sampang Shiite cleric Tajul Muluk, who faced the first hearing of his trial on Tuesday at the Sampang District Court, has been accused of propagating religio

Jakarta – One of Indonesia's largest Islamic groups has condemned the recent attack on an Ahmadiyah mosque in Tasikmalaya, West Java, saying that it could act as mediator to solve the c

Jakarta – On the heels of repetitive attacks against minority groups across the country, a high-ranking official said on Tuesday that minority groups in Indonesia did not have any legal

Agus Triyono – The Supreme Court must move the blasphemy trial of a Shiite religious scholar off East Java's Madura Island to prevent fueling further violence there, a rights group said

Indra Harsaputra and Arya Dipa, Surabaya/Bandung – Police are currently investigating violent acts in two separate areas motivated by different views of practicing Islam, the country's

As junior high school students kicked off their final examinations in classrooms across Indonesia on Monday, Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Nasaruddin Umar said the government consid

Jakarta – Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Nasaruddin Umar has targeted police to resolve religious attacks against an Ahmadiyah mosque – taking a different stance on the issue than hi

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Vento Saudale – After being forced by officials and police to hold their church service in a house instead of their church, members of a congregation in K

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali has told Ahmadiyah followers to obey the law, despite the fact that both they and their properties came under atta

Arya Dipa and Sita W.

Yuli Tri Suwarni, Bandung, West Java – Hundreds of people attacked an Ahmadiyah mosque in Babakan Sindang village, Tasikmalaya, West Java, prior to a Friday prayer, showing further evid

A mob of 150 people ransacked a mosque belonging to the minority Ahmadiyah Muslim sect in Singaparna, West Java, on Friday, smashing windows and breaking equipment inside.

A conflict resolution meeting with the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin in Bogor, West Java, was marked by the absence of Bogor mayor Diano Budiarto, who suspended GKI Yasmin's

Conflict between members of a persecuted church in Bekasi and residents was captured on video and posted online on Thursday, showing the residents violently resisting attempts by the ch