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Sampang conflict settlement needs courage

Courage is required to settle a religious conflict in Sampang, Madura, East Java province, said Waluyo, a senior ...

Indonesia should apply international human rights standards: UN

The United Nations (UN) High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay, said that the Indonesian government ...

Indonesia to prepare road map for international protocol on blasphemy

Indonesia will develop a road map for an international protocol on religious defamation, as earlier proposed by ...

Stop Abusing Freedom of Speech And Drop Double Standards

Although it was not for the first time that the United Nations General Assembly debated on the issue of religious ...

Russia warns against hysterics over pussy riot sentencing

Russia warned the West against "hysterics" over the Pussy Riot sentencing Monday as police said they were hunting ...

Hundred copies of book containing insults on Prophet Mohammad burned

PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, the publisher of a book containing insults about the Prophet Mohammad, burned hundreds of ...

Deported saudi blogger faces blasphemy charge

A Saudi journalist wanted in the kingdom for comments deemed insulting to the Prophet Mohammed was arrested after ...

Seven more Temanggung rioters get five months in jail

Seven more men involved in last February`s Temanggung sectarian riots were sentenced to five months in jail minus time ...

Tolerance to be included in school curricula

The National Education Ministry is considering the inclusion of tolerance in school curricula to tackle the negative ...

RI rated positively in Washington`s rights report

The government of the United States on Friday released its annual Country Report on Human Rights Practices 2010 in ...

Govt discusses sectarian violence with religious leaders

Coordinating Minister for People`s Welfare Agung Laksono met with a number of religious leaders here Tuesday for talks ...

Police to set up special detachment to deal with anarchism

Indonesian police will set up a special detachment to deal with anarchism, police chief General Timur Pradopo said ...

MUI calls for dissolution of Ahmadiyah

The Indonesian Ulemas Council (MUI) has declared that Ahmadiyah was heretic and called on the government to disband ...

Cikeusik incident was planned, organized: rights commission

Temporary findings from National Commission for Human Rights (Komnas HAM) showed the recent sectarian violence which ...

Temanggung incident likely "orchestrated": Muhammadiyah leader

Muhammadiyah leader Din Syamsuddin said the recent sectarian violence in Temanggung district, Central Java, could be ...