Opinions

As of September this year, at least 26 regencies and municipalities have passed bylaws restricting or banning the Ahmadiyah sect, 11 of them in West Java alone, according to a list from the National Commission on Violence Against Women. [baca]

Since the Papua Peace Conference concluded in Jayapura in July, a whirlwind of events in Papua has raised questions that need answers. [baca]

In every action the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) often perform anarchist actions that infuriated society. Public resentment against this organization quite reached the point of fury. [baca]

The present tepid leadership hasn't done enough to halt the rise of militant Islam. Four men, traumatized, terrorized and stigmatized, sat in a Jakarta apartment and described to me how they were almost killed by a Muslim mob earlier this year. [baca]

In Indonesia, the local English-language press frequently covers stories of houses of worship being forcibly closed, members of minority religions being harassed, and government ministers lunching with radical groups or calling for minority religions to be outlawed. [baca]