Despite a dark past of intolerance, several cities like Tual and Ambon are among the most tolerant regions in the country, according to the rights group, Setara Institute. The institute released its first tolerant city index on Monday, with Tual and Ambon, both in Maluku province, snatching the top two highest scores in the list of 10 most tolerant cities ... Read More »
Bogor municipality ranks the worst in religious tolerance in Indonesia, according to a recent study by human rights advocacy group Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace. Setara carried out a study from Aug. 3 to Nov. 13, ranking 94 municipalities from the most religiously tolerant to the least. Setara Institute deputy chairman Bonar Tigor Naipospos said there had been cases ... Read More »
Survey of Perception of State High School Students in Jakarta and Bandung on tolerance consisted of 171 high schools as its population with 114 high schools as sample. There were 76 high schools located in Jakarta and 38 high schools located in Bandung by using simple random sampling method. From each schools, 6 students both male and female were taken as respondent with total respondent ... Read More »
The KPK on Friday gave the green light for the ministry to resurrect the e-KTP program By Adelia Putri Anjani & Robertus Wardhi Read More »
A survey published by the Setara Institute, a democracy watchdog, has found that the public wants the creation of a separate court to handle local election disputes and remove authority from the Constitutional Court. Ismail Hasani, a researcher at the institute, said that based on the survey, the Attorney General’s Office (AGO) should handle local election disputes by establishing an ... Read More »
Jakarta. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has been asked to set up an ad hoc human rights court related to alleged rights violations, missing persons and abductions of activists. A presidential advisory board member said setting up the court was necessary to resolving the cases. “I promise that in line with my expertise, I will give it consideration and will report it ... Read More »
None of the rulings passed in cases overseen by Akil Mochtar, the disgraced former chief justice of the Constitutional Court, passed muster, according to a survey of 200 experts looking back at the now corruption suspect’s record on the bench. “There was not a single satisfactory score for the quality of verdicts made under Akil Mochtar’s leadership,” Hendardi, the chairman ... Read More »
The government refuses to kowtow to hardliners who have been calling for a ban on the Ahmadiyah sect. Vowing to uphold tolerance and civil rights, the Indonesian government has firmly stood its ground, rejecting demands from some Muslim groups including the Islamic Defenders’ Forum (FPI) to disband the Ahmadiyah sect. “The position of the central government remains guided by the 1945 ... Read More »
Outraged Miss World organizers and human rights activists have condemned the Indonesian government for its lack of support for the event, saying the last-minute decision to keep the entire pageant in Bali is yet another example of authorities bowing to religious extremists. On Monday, the MNC Group, the country’s largest media company and the main organizer of Miss World 2013, ... Read More »
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