Foreword Assalamualaikum, wr.wb Greetings for us all. Dear readers, SETARA Institute is a national research and policy advocacy organization with a concern for advancing the human rights condition and the elimination or minimalization of discrimination and intolerance based on religion, ethnicity, skin color, gender, and other social classes in Indonesia. SETARA Institute believes that a democratic society will advance if ... Read More »
COVID-19 has already infected Indonesia, with Jakarta being the epicenter of the spread (Taher, 2020). As of this writing, the number of positive cases in the country has reached 1.046, with 87 patients died and 46 patients recovered. Aside from these numbers, there are people categorized as monitored persons (Orang dalam Pemantauan/ODP) and monitored patients (Pasien dalam Pengawasan/PDP). Unfortunately, COVID-19 has ... Read More »
Introduction In celebrating International Tolerance Day, which is commemorate in every November 16, SETARA Institute studied and indexed 94 cities all around Indonesia in order to promote and practice tolerance. The indexing aims to promote the cities which were considered succeed in building and developing tolerance, so it should be affecting the other cities to follow. Report on Tolerant City ... 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 Bekasi district court on Thursday sentenced a man who threatened a Batak Protestant Congregation (HKBP) church pastor Palti Panjaitan, to two months in jail and six months probation. Abdul Aziz bin Naimun was charged with unpleasant conduct after demonstrations outside the HKBP Filadelfia church in Bekasi. “The defendant has been proven validly and convincingly guilty of a crime under ... Read More »
Democracy and human rights watchdog organization Setara Institute, recorded an increase in the violation of religious freedom. Based on the Institution’s observation, the number of province with cases of religious intolerance increased from 13 in 2012, to 20 in 2013. “Violation happened in regions where there was no violation before,” Setara Institute Deputy Head Bonar Tigor Naipospos, said in Jakarta ... Read More »
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The recent arrest of the Constitutional Court’s chief justice has sent ripples across the country, tarnishing the reputation of the judicial institution — an institution often held up as a rare example of corruption-free power. Indonesia’s anti-graft institution has arrested Chief Justice Akil Mochtar who allegedly accepted a bribe to fix the court’s ruling on a contested election in central ... Read More »
Selamat pagi, Pak Tony Abbott (Good morning, Mr Tony Abbott). Welcome to Indonesia. We hope you like our country – we certainly do. Have you noticed that your refugees almost never come from Indonesia? They come through Indonesia. You worry about boats coming to Australia but these people use Indonesia as a stepping stone to get to you. Officially, there ... Read More »
Jakarta’s official ideology of tolerance is a myth, as persecuted Shias and Christians can well attest. According to its guiding political philosophy, Pancasila, Indonesia is a land of religious tolerance. The country’s six recognized religions–Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Buddhism and Hinduism–supposedly enjoy equal protection under the law and equal right of worship in the Muslim-majority nation. Pancasila is Indonesia’s official ideology: ... Read More »
INTRODUCTION On December 10, 2012, citizens of the world will celebrate the International Day of Human Rights. 64 years ago, December 10, 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) became reference script for every country in the world to treat people with dignity, respecting the self integrity and a set of attached rights. In order to commemorate International Human Rights ... Read More »
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