Users Decry Curb on Free Speech as 'Radical' Sites Are Banned

... among some members of Indonesia’s Muslim community, who ... If the sites are teaching intolerance and declaring people with different ... would review [the ban].” Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Hakim ... Minister Rudiantara told BBC Indonesia that in response to ...

Islamic Textbooks Spark Concern Among Teachers

... books, which they say teach religious intolerance and radicalism. Iwan Hermawan, vice ... how extremism and intolerance flourishes and spreads in Indonesia, particularly among school ... agreed with the view that Indonesia’s five founding principles of ...

Free Speech a Possible Casualty in Purge of IS Supporters

... attack ever attempted in Indonesia. Exposure to chlorine gas ... have recently returned to Indonesia after having joined ... months before returning to Indonesia." During their stay ... containing messages of hate, religious intolerance and radicalism. Rudiantara said ...

Amnesty International Presents Jokowi With Lengthy To-Do List

... activists and attacks against religious minorities. Joko assumed the ... In the section on Indonesia, Amnesty mentioned a number ... Shiite minority groups in Indonesia. Amnesty in its report ... Vietnam and Laos, rising religious intolerance and the refugee crisis that ...

Religious Freedom Protection Bill Close to Completion

... for public comment, especially from religious leaders and human rights activists ... religion, including protection of minority religious groups. Earlier, in July, Lukman ... government to address intolerance cases in many areas in Indonesia. Although there ...

Indonesia’s Minorities Hope for a Safer Future Under Jokowi

... leader is committed to tackling religious intolerance. Indonesia, the world’s most populous ... still being drafted, will guarantee religious minorities protection from persecution, the ... soft approach to perpetrators of religious violence, with the accused often ...

Examining Luhut's Role in Presidential Working Unit

... doing its utmost to strengthen Indonesia's economic foundations and thus ... . The fourth expectation is that Indonesia needs to maintain its international ... as on Papua, economic disparities, religious intolerance, and more. The fifth and ...