Tanjung Balai – The Tanjungbalai municipal administration on Monday asked the Tri Ratna Temple Foundation board to immediately take down the Buddha statue that stands 6 meters tall on top of the te

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – Defying his parents' admonition that he should simply accept his position as a member of a minority community, a young Chinese-Indonesian man has bravely reported to the polic

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Ahmad Junaidi, Ambon, Maluku – Suhadi Cholil of Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University of Yogyakarta said students currently only study their own religions and learn very little about other faiths

Yogyakarta has been famous as the Javanese cultural capital and a center of excellence.

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – One day in the 2015 fasting month, the field commander of the Yogyakarta chapter of the Indonesian Islamic Front (FUI), Muhammad Fuad Andreago, led dozens of his men

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – The US-Indonesia Council on Religion and Pluralism will tackle intolerant movements within Indonesia, the council's co-chair has said.

Haeril Halim and Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta/Tanjung Balai – Life has suddenly gone downhill for Meliana, a woman of Chinese descent living in Tanjungbalai, North Sumatra, ever since she complained ab

Apriadi Gunawan, Medan – The Tanjungbalai Police's move to report a woman for blasphemy after she complained about the volume of loudspeakers at a mosque near her house, which led to the worst raci

Apriadi Gunawan, Tanjung Balai – The Tanjung Balai Police will proceed with the legal prosecution against two suspects, Budi Herianto and Rifai Zuharisyah, who allegedly incited racial unrest in th

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Hans Nicholas Jong, Jakarta – The National Police have declared a war against hate speech on social media by arresting two people in Jakarta and Banten for posting racist messages on the web relate

Haeril Halim and Apriadi Gunawan, Jakarta/Tanjung Balai – While social media has been influential in effecting positive changes in society, it can have the opposite effect, as witnessed by the comm

Jakarta – The country's second-biggest Muslim group, Muhammadiyah, has called for greater religious and racial tolerance in North Sumatra following the burning down and destruction on Saturday of s

Jakarta – Mosque and church caretakers say they always use the Idul Fitri holiday as an opportunity to strengthen interfaith friendship and cooperation.

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) plans to meet the new National Police chief, Comr. Gen.

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has demanded more involvement from the central government in addressing a surge in cases of intolerance across the country.

Jakarta – Denpasar, Bali and Sumedang, West Java, are among regions where its administrations have been criticized by the national rights body for their poor performance in resolving religious free

Manado – North Sulawesi is making a name for itself as one of the country's most religiously harmonious regions, with the latest example a recent breaking of the fast event involving Muslims and Je

Jakarta – West Java maintained its poor record as the most intolerant province in the country, according to findings by a national rights body revealed on Thursday.

Jakarta – The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has called on the government to immediately help members of Muslim minority groups Shia and Ahmadiyah return to their hometowns and li

Jakarta – The Ahmadiyah Indonesia Congregation (JAI) has called on the mass media to be balanced in its reporting of news related to minority groups in Indonesia.

Jakarta – Amid the growing Islamic radicalism that has influenced many countries, including Indonesia, the country has to look no further than local wisdom to teach children peace and tolerance.

Jakarta – The East Lombok Police criminal investigation division released eight Ahmadiyah followers from Bagik Manis village, East Lombok regency, West Nusa Tenggara, on Saturday after detaining th

Agnes Anya, Jakarta – Most of the time, mosques are seen as places restricted only for Muslims to pray and carry out other religious activities.

Jakarta – An inter-religious breaking-of-the-fast gathering, or iftar, attended by former first lady Sinta Nuriyah Abdurrahman Wahid on Thursday had to be relocated following protests from Islam De

Jakarta – The government should annul discriminative and intolerant bylaws, not only those seen to be hampering economic growth, rights watchdog Setara Institute has stated.

Anton Hermansyah, Jakarta – Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Indonesia's biggest Islamic organization, is of the opinion that making Indonesia a peaceful country with the world's largest population of Muslims

Ayomi Amindoni, Jakarta – The Mathla'ul Anwar Islamic organization has called on the government not to revoke sharia inspired bylaws that are in place in many regions across the country as it says

Arya Dipa, Bandung – In another show of intolerance toward minority faiths in Indonesia, mass organizations have extorted churches in Bandung, West Java, in the process of attaining building permit

Jewel Topsfield, Jakarta – Three former leaders of the disbanded Gafatar movement face life imprisonment after being arrested for blasphemy and treason in a case raising serious concerns about Indo

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Being gay in a religious neighborhood in Indonesia is certainly tough, but Hendro Yudistira faces even tougher odds.

Marguerite Afra Sapiie, Jakarta – A team of public attorneys from the Indonesian Legal Aid Institute have spoken out against the arrest of three former members of the controversial Fajar Nusantara

Jakarta – The Setara Institute, a human rights watchdog, released a report on the religious tolerance of high school students in Jakarta and Bandung, West Java on Tuesday.

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Jakarta – Unidentified people destroyed an Ahmadiyah mosque in Kendal regency, Central Java, in the early hours of Monday.

Jakarta – Pressure from intolerant people and the sealing-off of Ahmadis' Annur mosque in Bukit Duri, South Jakarta, by the local administration last year, have not discouraged the mosque's members

Representatives of Aceh Singkil Christian residents have filed a report with the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM), accusing their local government of discriminating against them in

Bambang Muryanto – Artists in Yogyakarta have used a creative way to protest the intolerance that continues to grow in a city that claims to be a dignified city of culture.

The East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) administration has announced that a civil servant from Lembata regency has been dismissed for joining the Fajar Nusantara (Gafatar) movement.

Arya Dipa – Supported by hard-line groups, residents of Jatisari village, Buahbatu district held a rally on Sunday to oppose the presence of the East Bandung Karo Batak Protestant Church (GBKP) in

Ryan Dagur, Jakarta – A leading Catholic Church official has joined calls for the repeal of a ministerial decree in Indonesia, which rights groups said would prevent a small religious minority from

Apriadi Gunawan – As many as 300 former members of the Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar) in North Sumatra have returned to their communities in various regions throughout the province, ready to re

Jakarta – Discrimination against religious minority groups remains rampant across Indonesia, according to the National Commission of Human Rights, or Komnas HAM, in its first quarterly report relea

Jakarta – Indonesian officials and security forces have been complicit in the violent forced eviction of more than 7,000 members of the Gafatar religious community from their homes on Kalimantan is

Urgent Appeal Case: AHRC-UAC-025-2016

Dear Friends,

Bambang Muryanto, Yogyakarta – Religious intolerance is still rife in Yogyakarta, with three cases reported in the first three months of this year in a city once regarded as a paragon of tolerance.

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – Despite a recent survey by the Religious Affairs Ministry confirming improved religious harmony in diverse neighborhoods, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), known for its c

Haeril Halim, Jakarta – After years of being labeled heretical following an edict on Shia issued by the East Java branch of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) in 2012, the headquarters of the Islam

Nurul Fitri Ramadhani, Jakarta – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has revealed that Indonesia's democratic credentials remained on the same level between 2009 and 2014, with three pr