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Indonesian rights body to release anti-sectarian guidelines ahead of elections

July 23, 2018 Indonesia Ahok, Elections, Human rights, Indonesia, Islamic extremism, Java, Joko Widodo

Young people join protests against the former Christian Jakarta governor Ahok who was convicted of blasphemy in May last year. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

Many young people joined the 2017 protests against former Jakarta governor Ahok, who was later jailed for blasphemy against Islam. During the trial, Ahok, a Christian and ethnic Chinese, said...

Indonesia: Ahok refuses parole, as he hopes for early release

July 16, 2018 Indonesia Ahok, Blasphemy, Indonesia, Islamic extremism, Jakarta

Jakarta’s former governor 'Ahok' is scheduled to be released from prison on 24 January. (Photo: Open Doors International)

Jakarta’s former governor ‘Ahok’ might be released from prison in August. (Photo: Open Doors International) The Christian former governor of the Indonesian capital Jakarta, known as “Ahok”, has refused parole...

Indonesia: How women and children became agents of terror

June 7, 2018 Indonesia Ahok, Children, Indonesia, Islamic extremism, Islamic State, JAD, Jakarta, Muhammadiyah, Surabaya, Women

Women pray in Blue Mosque in Indonesia's capital Jakarta. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...Indonesian government revealed that a growing number of students hold Islamist views. Young people joined protests against the former Christian Jakarta governor Ahok, convicted of blasphemy in May last year....

Ahok to stay in jail, Indonesian Supreme Court rules

March 28, 2018 Indonesia Ahok, Blasphemy, Indonesia, Islamic extremism, Jakarta, Quran

Ahok will now serve out his full two-year prison sentence. (Open Doors International) Indonesia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by the Christian former governor of Jakarta to review his...

Ahok ‘victim of cyber jihad against Indonesian government’

March 13, 2018 Indonesia Ahok, Blasphemy, Islamic extremism, Jakarta, Nahdlatul Ulama, Southeast Asia

Jakarta's governor arrives in court for his verdict and sentence in his blasphemy trial. Photo: Getty Images

...Getty Images Protestors show their support for Ahok at last month’s hearing Ahok, a Christian politician of Chinese descent, was sentenced to two years in prison last May following a...

Indonesia: Ahok’s appeal ‘last chance’ to clear name

February 26, 2018 Indonesia Ahok, Blasphemy, Indonesia, Jakarta, Java

appeal hearing is taking place on Monday (26 February). (Photo: Agoes Rudianto /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

...against Ahok who, at that time, was running for re-election. Embed from Getty Images Ahok’s supporters shout slogans outside the North Jakarta District Court, where the first appeal hearing took...

Indonesia: Ahok asks Supreme Court to review his blasphemy sentence

February 21, 2018 Indonesia Ahok, Blasphemy, Indonesia, Islamic Defenders Front, Java

...time, was running for re-election. Prosecutors in the case against Yani had hoped to present Ahok as a witness against him, but one of Ahok’s lawyers, Rolas Sitinjak, said the...

Indonesia church attacker acted alone, police say

February 15, 2018 Indonesia Ahok, Bogor, Churches, GKI Yasmin, Human rights, Indonesia, Islamic extremism, Java, Joko Widodo, Nahdlatul Ulama, Protestants, Religious freedom, Sulawesi, Yogyakarta

Altar of the Stasi Kinali Catholic Church, West-Sumatra, Indonesia, which was attacked in May 2014. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...The radicalisation of Indonesian youth was highlighted during the 2017 blasphemy trial of Jakarta’s former Governor, Ahok, a Christian and ethnic Chinese. In November, World Watch Monitor reported that a...

Indonesia’s president tells Catholic students to work for ‘harmony’

January 25, 2018 Indonesia Catholics, Indonesia, Joko Widodo, Religious freedom, Sumatra, Youth

Catholic students meet in Palmbang, Sumatra, this week. (Photo: Matters India)

Young men joining the protest march against Jakarta’s former Governor, Ahok, in December 2016. (Photo: World Watch Monitor) Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo, opened the 30th Catholic students congress in Palembang,...

Indonesia sees reduction in religious freedom violations

January 24, 2018 Indonesia Ahok, Churches, Indonesia, Indonesian Ulema Council, Islamic Defenders Front, Jakarta, Java, Pentecostals, Religious freedom

In 2010, Bogor’s GKI Yasmin church was sealed and padlocked by order of the mayor and city government. They still hold Sunday services outside the church, and stage monthly services outside Indonesia’s Presidential Palace.. (Photo: World Watch Monitor)

...by the institute last year. The blasphemy trial of Jakarta’s former governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (better known as “Ahok”), a Christian and ethnic Chinese, was reported internationally in 2016 and...

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