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UN Condemns Indonesia's Increasing Violence Against Shiites
November 13, 2012

 UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay, also known as Navi 
Pillay, speaks during a press conference in Jakarta on Nov. 13, 2012. The UN 
human rights chief said she was 'distressed' by ongoing violence and 
discrimination against Christians and Muslim minorities in Indonesia, the 
world's biggest Muslim-majority nation. (AFP Photo/Adek Berry)
The UN human rights chief on Tuesday condemned violence and discrimination 
against Christians and Muslim minorities like Shiites in Indonesia, the world’s 
biggest Muslim-majority nation.

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay said she had met with leaders 
of Christian communities, as well as Islamic minority Shiite and Ahmadiyah 
sects, all of which have been targeted by hard-liners in recent years.

“I was distressed to hear accounts of violent attacks, forced displacement, 
denial of identification cards and other forms of discrimination and harassment 
against them,” she told reporters in Jakarta.

She warned Indonesia risked losing its culture of diversity and tolerance “if 
firm action is not taken to address increasing levels of violence and hatred 
towards minorities and narrow and extremist interpretations of Islam.”

Indonesia’s constitution guarantees freedom of religion but rights groups say 
violence against minorities has been escalating since 2008 in the nation of 240 
million people, nearly 90 percent of whom identify as Muslims, the vast 
majority Sunni.

Pillay recommended Indonesia repeal its blasphemy law from 1965, under which a 
Shiite cleric was jailed for two years in July for saying the Koran was not an 
authentic text and that the hajj pilgrimage was not obligatory.

She also called for the revocation of a 2008 ministerial decree that deemed 
Ahmadiyah “deviant” for believing in a prophet after Mohammed and banned 
Ahmadis from proselytizing.

In May, a mob of 600 Islamic hard-liners threw plastic bags filled with urine 
at an Indonesian church congregation marking the ascension of Christ.

In August 2011, an Indonesian court handed jail sentences of just a few months 
to 12 hardliners who clubbed to death three Ahmadiyah men as police looked on.

Shiite Muslims have become common targets for hard-liners. A mob of around 500 
Sunni Muslims wielding machetes and sickles attacked a Shiite community in 
August, killing two and torching dozens of homes in eastern Java.

Pillay also expressed concern over Shariah law in Aceh province — where canings 
are common and a law on stoning was passed in 2009 — saying enforcement was 
“arbitrary” and “discriminatory” against women, creating “an environment of 
intimidation and fear.”

Agence France-Presse

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