Ulma Haryanto – The Constitutional Court should now consider the consequences of upholding the 1965 Blasphemy Law, a top human rights watchdog has said, arguing that it should go, based

Farouk Arnaz – The National Police on Friday backtracked on earlier comments that a member of the Ahmadiyah sect had been named a suspect for his alleged role in the religious violence

Rahmat & Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Makassar – The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) is threatening to disband Ahmadiyah, regardless of the risks, if the government does not take action

Elisabeth Oktofani & Ulin Yusron – About 500 people at an anti-Ahmadiyah rally led by the Islamic Defenders' Front (FPI) at the Hotel Indonesia traffic circle on Friday demanded the

The Indonesian Council of Ulema says it has no intention of backing down from its position outlined in a 2005 fatwa issued against the Ahmadiyah sect.

Ulma Haryanto – Akbar Ramanda, a 17-year-old standing trial for taking part in an October attack against an Ahmadiyah community in Bogor, showed no regrets when he acknowledged his acti

Farouk Arnaz, Fitri & Antara – The lawyer for two alleged assailants in a bloody attack against the Ahmadiyah in Banten that claimed three lives said on Wednesday that the crime sho

Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Dessy Sagita, Amir Tejo & Camelia Pasandaran – The religious affairs minister and the police said on Wednesday that an attack on an East Java Islamic board

Jakarta – Ahmadiyah spokesman Ahmad Mubarik says authorities must not force Ahmadis to leave Islam because they are part of the religion.

Elisabeth Oktofani – In a fiery speech in court that moved some to tears, a suspended Islamic Defenders Front leader on trial for inciting attacks against a Christian group in Bekasi co

Amir Tejo, Surabaya – Police on Tuesday arrested three people in connection with an attack by an angry mob on an Islamic boarding school in East Java.

People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Chairman Taufik Kiemas says he will meet with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to discuss the recent spate of religious-based violence.

Farouk Arnaz – Moving swiftly in the face of mounting concerns over religious violence, the Central Java Police have identified the alleged ringleaders of last week's riot and burning o

Farouk Arnaz & Zaky Pawas – A nongovernmental organization has accused the National Police of being complicit in a deadly attack on members of the Ahmadiyah Islamic sect, saying the

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Speeches by religious leaders that spread messages of hatred are believed to play a role in the increase in religious violence across the country as many lea

Hans David Tampubolon, Jakarta – The public outcry over the attack against Ahmadis in Pandeglang, Banten, and the burning of churches in Temanggung, Central Java, reached a feverish pit

Eras Poke, Kupang – Hundreds of students and church leaders took part in a peace rally on Thursday night in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, to urge a return to peace and interfaith harmony

Apriadi Gunawan and Yemris Fointuna, Medan/Kupang – University students and religious leaders in some regions have called for the spirit of tolerance to be revived among people of diffe

Anita Rachman & Markus Junianto Sihaloho – The deadly attack on an Ahmadiyah community last Sunday has prompted lawmakers and the government to speed up work on a religious harmony

Tom Allard, Lombok – The killing of three followers of the Ahmadiyah faith by a frenzied group of Islamists this week has left Indonesia reflecting on how closely it lives up to its nat

Heru Andriyanto, Markus Junianto Sihaloho, Anita Rachman & Farouk Arnaz – While officials and analysts debated the merits of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's call to disband vio

Markus Junianto Sihaloho & Farouk Arnaz – With the recent rise in religion-related violence and people seeking ways to curb the worrying trend, rights activists claim all that is ne

Ulma Haryanto – In a fresh case of religious friction, some 50 people rallied on Wednesday outside an unfinished church in Bekasi, where a heavy police presence prevented any violence.

Anita Rachman – Deputy House Speaker Priyo Budi Santoso says followers of an Islamic sect deemed heretic by mainstream Indonesian Muslims should declare a new religion.

Dessy Sagita – The 2008 joint ministerial decree forbidding Ahmadiyah followers from promoting their activities is not to blame for the discrimination suffered by the minority sect's fo

Yuli Tri Suwarni and Wahyoe Boediwardhana, Bandung/Malang – A group claiming to represent the hard-line Islam Defenders Front (FPI) in Tasikmalaya, West Java, vowed on Wednesday to laun

Nurfika Osman & Obey Wibinnov Sianipar – From private citizens to organizations both local and international, the growing sense of frustration was palpable.

Mobs screaming "God is greatest" as they stone people to death; mobs calling for death to blasphemers and vandalizing churches; mobs beating liberals in the capital's thoroughfares: the

Peter Alford – Civil and religious rights group have demanded the dismissal of Indonesia's Religious Affairs Minister.

A United States government watchdog called Monday on Indonesia to take action against extremists and reform its laws after a mob beat and stoned to death three members of a minority Mus

Mariel Grazella, Jakarta – The fatal Sunday attack on Ahmadis in Banten has captured the concern of not only local, but also international human rights organizations, including Amnesty

Nivell Rayda & Dessy Sagita – Footage of the mob violence and apparent killing of an Ahmadiyah member in Cikeusik, Banten, on Sunday was too brutal for the country's national televi

As the National Human Rights Commission launched a team on Monday to probe the violent attack on the Ahmadiyah community in Banten, police and authorities in Java and Lombok stepped up

The death toll in the horrifying attack on members of the Ahmadiyah community in Banten province on Sunday has increased to four after a victim succumbed to his injuries on Tuesday.

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Nivell Rayda & Ulin Yusron – Ahmad Masihudi has bruises on his right jaw, a swollen eye and cuts all over his body, but he considers himself a lucky man.

Scenes from a video reportedly filmed in secret during the bloody attack on members of the Ahmadiyah sect in Banten on Sunday have begun circulating.

Antara & Jakarta Globe – A disheartening irony occurred on Sunday.

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Rights bodies are demanding authorities take stern measures against the perpetrators of an attack on members of the Ahmadiyah faith, while President Susilo B

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Dozens of prominent figures gathered Monday with NGO representatives to condemn the fatal Sunday attack on Ahamdiyah followers in Banten, which claimed 3 liv

Dessy Sagita – National Commission on Human Rights chairman Ifdhal Kasim said that they have formed a team to investigate the fatal attack on an Ahmadiyah community in Banten that left

Anita Rachman – The House of Representatives says it will summon the national police chief and minister of religious affairs following the religious violence that three members of the m

How many Ahmadiyah have to die at the hands of mobs before the police step in.

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Jakarta – A machete-wielding mob of Muslims on Sunday attacked the home of a minority sect leader in central Indonesia, killing three and wounding six others, police and witnesses said.

Jakarta – Human Rights Watch (HRW) condemned the National Police for "tolerating" hate crimes in South Sulawesi during the attack on an Ahmadiyah congregation recently.

Arya Dipa, Bandung – The Alliance of Religious People's Harmony in West Java objected to Tuesday's mobilization of Sirnamiskin Muslim boarding school (pesantren) students against the co

Andi Hajramurni, Makassar, South Sulawesi – South Sulawesi Police used force to evacuate around 40 Ahmadiyah followers from their mosque on Jl.

Rahmat, Makassar – Dozens of protesters from the Islamic Defenders Front surrounded an Ahmadiyah center in Makassar on Friday, demanding that the sect disband.