Refl:  Semua oknom anggota pemerintahan NKRI bersekolah tinggi dan mempunyai 
gelar seperti Dr, MA, SH, Ir etc. Presiden NKRI bukan saja mempunyai gelar Dr, 
tetapi juga MA dan  juga adalah mantan jenderal TNI. Jadi mereka inii bukan 
komplotan orang udik nan bodoh lagi butahuruf, tetapi sebaliknya  mereka adalah 
oknom-oknom berilmu pandai.  Jadi mereka  mengetahui tugas dan kewajiban yang 
harus dilakukan. Jika  toleransi antara umat beragama bertambah buruk bukan 
masalah aneh karena hal ddemikian adalah pernyataan penerapan politik yang 
mereka jalankan. Policynya ini adalah policy harga mati kepada korban.



http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/12/26/govt-must-act-intolerance-or-things-will-get-worse.html

‘Govt must act on intolerance or things will get worse’
Tifa Asrianti, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Mon, 12/26/2011 11:49 PM 

The constant harassment of members of the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) 
Taman Yasmin is evidence of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s failure to 
protect minority groups in the country. 

The harassment reached its peak on Sunday with locals preventing the 
congregation from performing Christmas mass. 

Pluralism activists warned that the government’s inaction toward religious 
intolerance during the year could incite more violence in 2012. 

“If the central government, especially the President, does not take action 
against the perpetrators, there will be more of the same in the future,” the 
deputy chairman of human rights watchdog Setara Institute, Bonar Tigor 
Naipospos, told The Jakarta Post on Sunday.

Muslim activist Muhammad Guntur Romli said the government should take firm 
action simply because community members were prone to intolerance.

“There’s always a tendency for intolerance within society and it is incumbent 
upon the government to protect its people from all forms of violence,” he told 
the Post.

Members of the GKI Yasmin congregation had to perform their Christmas mass at a 
private home on Sunday, after their place of worship was cordoned off and 
heavily guarded by the Bogor Police. 

A handful of protesters gathered outside the sealed church, taunting members of 
the congregation and preventing them from entering Jl. H. Abdullah Bin Nuh 
where the church is located.

This is the second time members of GKI Yasmin’s congregation have failed to 
perform their Christmas service inside their church. Last year, the 
congregation was denied entry in spite of a Supreme Court ruling, which upheld 
the church’s legality.

The harassment of GKI Yasmin’s congregation is only one of many episodes of 
religious tension witnessed throughout 2011.

In February, three members of the Islamic Ahmadiyah sect were killed by locals 
in Cikeusik, Banten.

The Serang District Court sentenced 10 men and two minors to between three and 
six months’ imprisonment for their involvement in the killings of three Ahmadis 
during the brutal attack.

Also in February, three churches were destroyed by angry mobs who were angered 
by a judge’s verdict during a blasphemy trial.

In October, the local administration in Bekasi, West Java, issued an ordinance 
banning members of Ahmadiyah from publicly practicing their faith.

The ordinance prompted Muslim firebrands to harass Ahmadis living in the 
municipality.

Ahmad Suaedy, executive director of the Wahid Institute, said the central 
government should take action to protect minority groups, especially as some 
local governments had in fact been responsible for issuing discriminatory 
policies.

“In the case of GKI Yasmin, it is very clear that the Bogor mayor does not want 
to carry out the Supreme Court’s ruling. So, this case is no longer the 
responsibility of the local administration. It is the responsibility of the 
central government,” he said. 

Guntur said the public could be forgiven for thinking that the central 
government was trying to hide something by allowing the oppression against 
religious minorities to proceed unchecked. 

“The only reason was probably to divert public attention from corruption cases, 
like the cases of Nunun Nurbaeti and the former Democratic Party treasurer 
Nazaruddin,” he said.


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