>Miss World drama fueled by host country Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Beauty queens and backstage drama may seem inevitable, but at this year's Miss World competition, something more serious than hair-pulling and name-calling has come from host...
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View ArticleActivists: Minister Suryadharma Flouts Constitution
By Jakarta Globe on 8:26 am November 22, 2013. Category Featured, Law & Order, News Tags: Indonesia intolerance, Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali, religious freedom A sign by the Bekasi...
View ArticleIndonesia: Religious Minorities Targets of Rising Violence (HRW - Human...
(Source: HRW - Human Rights Watch) (Jakarta) - The Indonesian government is failing to protect the country's religious minorities from growing religious intolerance and violence, Human Rights Watch...
View ArticleLocal Leader Serves as Role Model For a Peaceful, Pluralistic Indonesia
Ibrahim Soulisa (a pseudonym) is neither a famous Muslim leader, a televised Islamic preacher, nor a celebrated religious commentator. Soulisa is just a village chief in the lonely, predominantly...
View ArticleIn Religious Freedom Debate, Nonbelievers Must Not Be Ignored
by Billy Ford, Senior Program Associate, International Religious Freedom and Cyrus Rassool, Program Associate, Regional Programs According to a 2012 Win-Gallup poll of some 50,000 individuals from 57...
View ArticlePursuing a Freedom Agenda Amidst Rising Global Islamism (The Heritage...
(Source: The Heritage Foundation) The rapidly changing political landscapes in several important Muslim-majority countries are challenging U.S. policymakers to develop coherent and consistent policy...
View ArticleSRI LANKA: Religious integration�"Inclusion not intrusion
Wednesday, 10 April 2013, 11:13 am Article: Asian Human Rights Commission SRI LANKA: Inter-religious integration�"Inclusion not intrusion A Reflection by Bishop Duleep de Chickera April 9, 2013 Over...
View ArticleMuslim officials condemn abductions of girls
The abduction three weeks ago of hundreds of schoolgirls in Nigeria by the Muslim extremist group Boko Haram is now generating worldwide attention and condemnation. Muslim leaders in various countries...
View ArticleReligious intolerance is growing in Indonesia
Indonesia has the biggest Muslim population in the world and is often described as a country where people live peacefully side by side, tolerating difference. Now, however, religious minorities are...
View ArticleThai University Honors Suryadharma for Religious Tolerance
By Dessy Sagita on 8:10 am September 26, 2013. Category News Tags: Indonesia intolerance, Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali. (JG Photo/Fajrin...
View ArticleCondemn Injustice, Not Islam
In her recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, atheist and anti-Islam activist Ayan Hirsi Ali finally admits, "In the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and the Woolwich murder, it was good to hear...
View ArticleCeritalah: High Stakes in Maluku
By Karim Raslan on 3:46 pm November 21, 2013. Category Columns, Opinion Tags: Ceritalah, Indonesia Constitutional Court, Maluku On Thursday, in the middle of a Constitutional Court session, a group of...
View ArticleNU Shows Face of Tolerance, Harmony
The world's largest Muslim organization, with some 40 million followers, marked its 87th anniversary with a musical ensemble and a wayang performance featuring a Javanese saint last week. The choice of...
View ArticleReligious Award Sparks Indonesia Protest
JAKARTA — Leading religious figures in Indonesia have come out against a U.S.-based interfaith group's plan to award President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's support for religious freedom. They said it...
View ArticleIndonesia: Religious Minorities Targets of Rising Violence
(Jakarta) – The Indonesian government is failing to protect the country’s religious minorities from growing religious intolerance and violence, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today....
View ArticleIndonesia shrugs at rising religious violence: report
Members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) in 2008 after a march to celebrate religious freedom was disrupted by hardline Muslims. Photo: Reuters JAKARTA: Indonesia has experienced a "sharp uptick"...
View ArticleReligious leaders must practise what they preach
Ultra nationalist groups and religious extremists, by themselves, are bad enough, but when brought together by a common agenda, you have the most potent brew possible. These elements always fight in...
View ArticleIndonesian leader Yudhoyono receives religious ‘statesman’ award
Indonesia’s president has accepted a statesmanship award from a US interfaith foundation that says it hopes to encourage him to promote freedom of worship and tolerance in the world’s most populous...
View ArticleFull text of Najib's speech at UN General Assembly
The full text of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib’s speech at the 68th United Nations General Assembly in New York tonight. Mr President, Excellencies, Ladies and gentlemen, Allow me to begin by...
View ArticleReligion Living Dangerously
By Doug Bandow on 6.6.13 @ 6:08AM Religious intolerance in law and in practice in Islamic Indonesia. Indonesia has much to celebrate. The world’s most populous Islamic nation surmounted the Suharto...
View ArticleClerics take to street for religious freedom
Paper Edition | Page: 9 Around 200 clerics in Greater Jakarta took to the street on Monday to vent their criticism against the government’s negligence over the ongoing cases on religious intolerance....
View Article'Violence is not the Islamic way'
THREE years ago, I stood before you and called for a Global Movement of Moderates. It was a call to reject extremism in all its forms. Because the real divide is not between East and West, or between...
View ArticleIndonesia must be serious in mediating Mideast Conflict
Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Resolving the relentless conflict in the Middle East through violence will only result in the killing of innocent citizens, and therefore Indonesia has been called on to be...
View ArticleThe Pakistanisation of Indonesia
The marble minaret of Jakarta’s largest mosque, the Istiqlal, and the cast iron steeples of the city’s Catholic Cathedral, jointly punctuate the city-centre’s skyline. The adjacent location of these...
View ArticleIndonesian Muslims Try to Counter Islamic State's Appeal
Brian Padden JAKARTA— In the last decade, Indonesia’s strategy to combat terrorism through police action and criminal prosecution, not military means, has successfully curbed the local terrorist...
View ArticleIndonesian leader gets religious 'statesman' award
Indonesia's president has accepted a statesmanship award from a U.S. interfaith foundation that says it hopes to encourage him to promote freedom of worship and tolerance in the world's most populous...
View ArticleInterfaith Dialogue Is Not Enough
From Tuesday until Friday, Indonesia is hosting an interfaith conference of Asian Christian and Muslim leaders, jointly held by the Indonesian-based International Conference of Islamic Scholars (ICIS),...
View ArticleHuman Rights Watch Urges Indonesia to Tackle Religious Violence
Failures in government leadership and law enforcement are fueling a surge of religious violence in Indonesia and have rendered religious minorities vulnerable to attack, an international rights group...
View ArticleReligious violence rising in Indonesia: report
Indonesia’s government, security forces and courts must do more to protect religious minorities from growing episodes of intolerance and violence, an international rights group said in a report...
View ArticleEditorial: It’s Time for Moderate Muslims to Speak Up
By Jakarta Globe on 9:57 am January 10, 2014. Category Editorial, Opinion Tags: Indonesia religious intolerance, Islam, Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali To fix something, we must first admit...
View ArticleIs Indonesia still a model of religious tolerance?
Despite a rise religiously-motivated violence at home, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono addressed a wealthy crowd at New York’s Pierre hotel on Thursday night and accepted an award from an...
View ArticleReport: Religious violence rising in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Indonesia's government, security forces and courts must do more to protect religious minorities from growing episodes of intolerance and violence, an international rights group...
View ArticleReligious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Doubts Claims of Intolerance in Indonesia
By Josua Gandan on 5:24 pm January 9, 2014. Category Featured, News Tags: Indonesia religious intolerance, Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali claimed...
View ArticleReligious Inclusivity Must Be Applauded
Moderate Muslims who have remained silent on the issue must condemn any act of violence. It is necessary to show the world that the groups who perform such acts of violence do not constitute the...
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