Jakarta – Dozens of residents held a demonstration in front of the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin on Friday in Bogor, West Java, to express support for Bogor Mayor Diani Budia

Anita Rachman – Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto was criticized by lawmakers on Thursday for employing "misleading" and "sick" logic in his continued defiance of a Supreme Court ruling on the

Bagus BT Saragih, Jakarta – Most Indonesians insist on rejecting any form of religiously motivated violence and are worried that recent violent incidents against certain minority religi

Vento Saudale – Human Rights Watch visited the GKI Yasmin church in Bogor on Sunday to make first-hand observations of the congregation conducting its service on the sidewalk due to the

Jakarta – Members of the executive board of the Islamic Student Association (PB HMI) submitted on Saturday a document detailing the dispute between the GKI Yasmin church and the Bogor a

Ronna Nirmala – Most Indonesians oppose the use of violence against the minority Muslim sect Ahmadiyah and think its followers here are their compatriots and should not be facing oppres

Chrestella Tan – For months Deden Sujana had to be treated in a Jakarta hospital.

Andreas Harsono – On Sunday morning, February 6, 2011, about 1,500 men approached a house in Cikeusik village in West Java, about a seven-hour drive from Jakarta, the capital of Indones

Elisabeth Oktofani & Fitri – Not all Muslims celebrated Idul Fitri with jubilance and excitement.

Makassar – The South Sulawesi administration says it forbids members of the Ahmadiyah Muslim community to conduct religious activities during the upcoming Idul Fitri holiday.

Fitri, Mataram, West Nusa Tenggara – Nothing has changed at the Transito shelter in the five and a half years that it has served as home to 138 members of the beleaguered Ahmadiyah Isla

Jakarta – More than 50 percent of Indonesian journalists agreed that the religious sect Ahmadiyah and Playboy magazine should be banned, while sharia and anti-pornography laws should be

Nivell Rayda – The Ahmadiyah community in Cianjur, West Java, is airing fears of violence and retaliation after a court in Banten recently jailed 12 men for an attack there that left th

Camelia Pasandaran – Bogor's controversial mayor says he has a new reason not to allow the GKI Yasmin church to open – the name of the street on which it is built has an Islamic name.

Jakarta – The Indonesian Ahmadiyah Congregation (JAI) says it will not seek further legal action against the hard-liners given lenient sentences for instigating a riot in which three Ah

Ulma Haryanto – For Firdaus Mubarik, an Indonesian Ahmadiyah activist, Independence Day provides no cause for celebration.

A man wounded when Islamic hard-liners launched a deadly attack on his minority sect questioned Indonesia's commitment to religious freedom after he was sentenced to six months in jail

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Heru Andriyanto – A senior Amadiyah member was sentenced to six months imprisonment at the Serang District Court on Monday in relation to the violent mob attack that killed three other

Kupang – A reverend and several residents from Batuplat sub-district in Kupang have complained about the intimidation they received following their opposition to the construction of a m

Niniek Karmini, Cikeusik, Indonesia – When Dani bin Misra was released from prison last week after serving just three months for smashing in the skull of a member of a Muslim sect, this

Elisabeth Oktofani – The lenient sentences handed down to the killers of three Ahmadiyah followers were the result of "manipulated" legal proceedings, which began when police launched t

Vento Saudale, Bogor – The Bogor police will continue deploying personnel to safeguard a controversial church and a nearby street where the congregation has held Sunday services since t

Zubaidah Nazeer – Indonesia's two largest Muslim groups count a third of the country's population as followers, but appear to be losing ground in shaping the national conversation about

Presi Mandari – Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa on Friday defended the country's judicial system after a court sentenced Muslim radicals to a few months in jail for killing

Rizal Harahap and Yemris Fointuna, Pekanbaru/Kupang – Angry mobs set fire to three houses believed to be used illegally as churches in Logas Tanah Darat district in Riau's Kuantan Sengi

Ulma Haryanto & Markus Junianto Sihalolo – Adding insult to injury, prosecutors at the Serang District Court on Tuesday recommended nine months in jail for an Ahmadi man critically

Ulma Haryanto – As Indonesia's Muslim majority prepares for Ramadan and Idul Fitri, the minority Ahmadiyah Islamic sect is bracing itself for more persecution.

Hundreds of conservative Muslims have held a noisy but peaceful rally in Indonesia's capital to demand the government outlaw an Islamic sect they consider heretical.

Ismira Lutfia – Indonesian Islamic scholars had mixed reactions to criticism launched by Western nations of the apparent light sentences handed down to Islamist extremists who killed me

Christian Solidarity Worldwide has expressed renewed concern about continuing violations of religious freedom in Indonesia following the sentencing of the perpetrators of violence again

Hong Kong – Three to six months in prison was the shocking sentence given to the perpetrators of the mob killing of three Ahmadiyahs earlier this year.

Heru Andriyanto & Ulma Haryanto, Serang, Banten – A wave of condemnation greeted the lenient sentences handed down on Thursday to 12 men found guilty of attacking members of the min

Indonesia on Friday dismissed expressions of outrage and disbelief over the perceived light sentences handed down to Islamic extremists who killed three minority sect members in a mob f

Ali Kotarumalos, Jakarta, Indonesia – Foreign governments and human rights groups say the relatively light sentences given to 12 men who participated in the brutal killings of three min

The United States Embassy in Indonesia has expressed "disappointment" in response to the light verdicts handed down in relation to the bloody attacks on members of the Ahmadiyah sect in

Jakarta – An NGO and representatives from the EU expressed concerns at the rulings in trials over attacks on religious minorities in Cikeusik, Banten, saying they expected the governmen

Indonesian authorities should be making all-out efforts to bring to justice those who kill people because of their religious beliefs.

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A prominent rights organization said on Thursday that the light sentences handed down to 12 men involved in the deadly February attack on an Ahmadiyah community were a result of frustra

Arya Dipa, Bandung – West Java Governor Ahmad Heryawan has told Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto to settle once and for all a protracted local religious dispute about an under-construction Ta

Chrestella Tan – The Bogor administration has been given 60 days to reopen the embattled GKI Yasmin Church, after a government oversight body declared the mayor guilty of "maladministra

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Elisabeth Oktofani – A protest in Bogor that had been expected to turn violent remained civil on Sunday as a group of people in the mostly Muslim community voiced opposition to the Yasm

Elisabeth Oktofani & Chrestella Tan – Rights activists expressed outrage on Thursday over the light jail terms sought for suspects in the deadly attack on Ahmadiyah followers in Ban

The European Parliament has chimed in on incidents of religious persecution in Indonesia with a resolution that expresses "grave concern" over the recent string of attacks against Chris

Jakarta – A court case centered around a fatal attack on members of a religious minority group, Ahmadiyah, continued Thursday at Serang District Court in Banten, with the court set to h

Mariel Grazella, Jakarta – International human rights group Amnesty International has once again drawn the plight of the Taman Yasmin Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) into the spotligh

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Vento Saulade, Bogor – Community leaders in West Bogor subdistrict warned on Sunday of anarchy if the GKI Yasmin congregation continued to hold weekly services outside of their sealed-o