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-----Original Message----- From: item abu <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:04:11 To: [email protected]<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [proletar] Hard-Line Group Occupies Yasmin Church Sidewalk + Debate Over Indonesian Religion Bill Heats Up Dulu katanya GP Ansor mau melindungi gereja2, ternyata cuma sekedar kaing2 aja. Tp yg penting kan kaing2nya, makin keras makin baik. >________________________________ >From: Sunny <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 4:31 AM >Subject: [proletar] Hard-Line Group Occupies Yasmin Church Sidewalk + Debate >Over Indonesian Religion Bill Heats Up > > > >http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/hard-line-group-occupies-yasmin-church-sidewalk/472067 > >Hard-Line Group Occupies Yasmin Church Sidewalk >Vento Saudale | October 17, 2011 > >Youth leaders and politicians in support of the controversy-plagued GKI Yasmin >church in Bogor, which was obstructed again over the weekend. From 5 a.m. on >Sunday, Oct. 3, 2011 police were on standby at the church, having roped off >the sidewalk where worshipers had been forced to pray in recent weeks since >the city sealed the building. (JG Photo) > >Bogor. Hundreds of men from a local Muslim hard-line group occupied the >roadway in front of the GKI Yasmin church on Sunday, forcing congregation >members to hold their service a kilometer away from their sealed building. > >The churchgoers have been staging prayers on the sidewalk outside their church >for more than a year now, after the Bogor city government sealed off the >building. However, on Sunday police had blocked access to the church by 7 a.m. > >“[The congregation members] were not permitted to come any closer for security >reasons. We are afraid they will clash with members of Forkami,” said Bogor >Police Chief Adj. Comr. Hilman, referring to the Indonesian Muslim >Communication Forum. > >Since dawn on Sunday, some 200 Forkami members had been occupying the pavement >in front of the GKI Yasmin where churchgoers usually staged their prayers. The >men, dressed in white robes and skullcaps, shouted praises to Allah and were >on the lookout for GKI congregation members. > >“We are grateful that no GKI Yasmin people dared to show their faces here,” >Forkami chairman Ahmad Iman told his members in the oration. > >“We want this church building to be gone next week. If it still stands, then >we will personally bring it down.” > >Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto has stood in defiance of a Supreme Court order to >reopen the church after the court ruled that its closure was illegal. > >The Ombudsman commission has also written to President Susilo Bambang >Yudhoyono saying that Diani had violated the court order. > >“This is just a recommendation for the president and the legislature, so there >is no problem for the Bogor city government [in not abiding by the ruling] >because any institution has the right to issue such recommendations,” the >mayor said. > >The Bogor administration initially issued a building permit for GKI Yasmin in >2006, but it revoked it two years later, alleging that the church had >falsified the signatures required by law to obtain it. > >Since the closure decision was annulled by the court in December, Diani issued >another letter ordering the church to be relocated, saying that GKI Yasmin had >been built on a street with an Islamic name. > >“The city government has been given the authority by the central government to >resolve the dispute, so we did, by issuing a decision letter on March 11,” >Diani said, adding that the surrounding neighborhood had been opposed to the >church’s construction. > >“GKI is welcome to use the land provided by the city government on Jalan >Siliwangi and all expenses will be compensated.” > >GKI Yasmin spokesman Bona Sigalingging said that by rejecting the court’s >decision, the mayor was blatantly refusing to abide by the law. > >“We see that the central government has remained silent and showed no >commitment in executing the Supreme Court decision and Ombudsman >recommendation,” he said. “When can we pray in our legally built church?” > >The chairman of the Bogor Communion of Churches (BKGS), Henky Benaya, said the >city government has discriminated against the construction of new churches as >well. “We see that acquiring building permits for churches in Bogor is >difficult and can take years,” he said. > >Henky added that the BKGS, as the representative of some 84 churches in Bogor, >had never been consulted in the city’s decision to seal off or relocate the >GKI Yasmin. > >“We just hope that the matter will be resolved soon, and we all are praying >for it,” he said. > >+++++ > >www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/debate-over-indonesian-religion-bill-heats-up/473591 > >Debate Over Indonesian Religion Bill Heats Up > >Ulma Haryanto & Anita Rachman | October 24, 2011 > >Rahmat Rahmadijaya, an Ahmadiyah leader living in Jatibening, Bekasi, has been >anxious for a few weeks now. > >At first he didn’t want to talk, but he later changed his mind. “If I speak >out, maybe I can get people to support us, to pray for us,” he told the >Jakarta Globe in a recent interview. > >He is anxious because of a decree signed by Bekasi’s acting mayor, Rahmat >Effendi, that bans the Muslim minority group from conducting activities that >may be interpreted as an effort to spread its beliefs. > >The ban went into effect on Oct. 13. Since then, Rahmat and other members of >the Ahmadiyah community in his neighborhood have started holding Friday >prayers under tight security from Bekasi Police. > >“Our second Friday prayers went relatively normally, about 60 people joined >in,” said another resident, Abdul Rohim. > >“We don’t know about next week, though.” > >In Need of a Law? > >The fear appears to be justified. Several violent incidents have targeted >Ahmadiyah communities throughout the country. > >One of the worst — an attack in February by a mob of at least a thousand on an >Ahmadi group in Cikeusik that left three members of the sect dead — spurred a >discussion over a long-delayed bill on religious harmony. > >At the time, the bill was presented by lawmakers as a long-term solution to >the religious conflicts plaguing the country and to give a stronger legal >basis to joint ministerial decrees that regulate religious matters in the >country today. > >Last week, Coordinating Minister for People’s Welfare Agung Laksono, Religious >Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali and Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi >reiterated their endorsement of the bill. > >“We need a regulation that contains both conflict prevention and solutions to >the problems obstructing religious harmony,” Agung said. > >The current draft of the bill regulates various religious rights and >obligations such as proselytizing, celebrating religious holidays, >constructing places of worship, funerals and religious education. > >“The original version of the draft, written by the staff of the Religious >Affairs Ministry, dated back to 2003,” said Ismail Hasani, a researcher at >Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy. “The current draft is more or less >the same.” > >The bill is part of the 2011 National Legislation Program (Prolegnas), or the >list of priority bills for the year, but it has been delayed as the House of >Representatives has turned its attention to other bills. > >Will It Help? > >Setara deputy chairman Bonar Tigor Naipospos, an advocate of pluralism, isn’t >looking forward to the religious harmony bill being passed into law. > >He said it would only legitimize existing discriminatory regulations within >the 1965 Anti-Blasphemy Law and a 2006 joint ministerial decree on places of >worship, which has contributed to a number of conflicts. > >In Bogor, for instance, Mayor Diani Budiarto has used the ministerial decree >to continue to defy a Supreme Court ruling ordering the reopening of the GKI >Yasmin Church. > >The 2006 joint ministerial decree requires 60 signatures from local residents >in support of the construction of a place of worship, but the mayor has >claimed that GKI Yasmin forged the signatures. > >The tension in Bogor came to a head two weeks ago, when churchgoers and public >order officers (Satpol PP) clashed in front of the sealed building. > >West Java Police are now investigating complaints filed by both camps against >each other. A Satpol PP chief is accusing GKI Yasmin churchgoers of hitting >him in the jaw and knocking him unconscious, while the church is countersuing >Satpol PP for disrupting its service. > >Bonar said the bill would be unhelpful to the cause of the Ahmadiyah as well. >“The spirit of the law that condemns their belief, the 1965 Anti-Blasphemy >Law, is still incorporated in the bill,” he said. > >Fears and Worries > >Abdul Kadir Karding, chairman of House Commission VIII, which oversees social >affairs, urged the public to think positively about what the lawmakers in the >commission were doing. > >He said the House wanted to give protection to minorities. > >“For instance, when there is a non-Muslim person living in a Muslim community, >he or she has the right to use the same public cemetery like the majority,” he >said. “In the Cikeusik case, we want this future law to ensure that the guilty >will get punished.” > >Activists were outraged that most of the 12 people convicted in the Cikeusik >attack were sentenced to just six months in jail — the same sentence given to >one of the Ahmadi victims convicted of violent assault and disobeying police >officers who had ordered him and about a dozen other Ahmadis to evacuate ahead >of the attack. > >Karding acknowledges that unless the bill is carefully constructed, it risks >becoming a tool for “hard-line groups to limit freedom of religion.” > >Fajar Riza Ul Haq, executive director of the Maarif Institute, asked the House >to be more open in the drafting and deliberation. > >He said it should learn from the recently passed Intelligence Law, when both >the House and government ignored public criticism. > >One critical point, he said, was how the House would define “harmony” in the >bill. “They should have drafted a religious freedom bill instead of this one.” > >Harmony vs Freedom > >Harmony, for instance, could be used to justify the recently issued Bekasi ban >on the Ahmadiyah’s activities, which states the ban is needed to “preserve and >maintain the stability of conduciveness and security, peace and order in >Bekasi.” > >Bonar views the religious harmony bill as the “middle way” after the >Constitutional Court rejected a judicial review of the 1965 Anti-Blasphemy >Law. > >“Because even though the court rejected the request because the law itself is >not unconstitutional, it stated in its ruling that a revision or an update of >the law was needed,” Bonar said. > >“Principally, we can’t agree with the law since it reflects the fact that this >government thinks religious harmony is something that should be engineered, >rather than grow naturally.” > >If the government really wanted “harmony,” Fajar said it should start >addressing the prevalence of hate speech. > >In Jatibening, just before the ban on the Ahmadiyah was issued, members of the >notorious hard-line group Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) were in the area. > >“They came to Jatibening and intimidated people, telling us to shut down our >mosque about three weeks ago,” Rahmat said. > >Additional reporting by Vento Saudale >Related articles > >Hard-Line Group Occupies Yasmin Church Sidewalk 8:42am Oct 17, 2011 > >New Religion Law Will Help: Minister 11:00pm Oct 14, 2011 > >Anti-Terror Chief Calls For More Legal Authority 10:34am Oct 6, 2011 > >Dead Solo Suspect May Have Played Part in Cirebon Bombing: Source 12:28am Sep >26, 2011 > >Update: Hospital Confirms 1 Dead, 28 injured in Solo Blast 12:19am Sep 26, 2011 > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! 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