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Lesson Indonesia learned from Sri Lanka, New Zealand

The ISIS has claimed responsibility for Easter Sunday's deadly coordinated suicide bombings on churches and hotels ...

Ex-rector appeals to Indonesia's inter-faith communities to stand firm

Ex-rector of Syarif Hidayatullah Islamic University Prof. Komaruddin Hidayat, drawing reference to the ghastly ...

Jokowi never politicizes prayer (shalat): national campaign team

Ace Hasan Syadzily, a spokesman for the Joko Widodo (Jokowi.

Firm measure called for against mass organization committing violence

A survey by the Indonesian Institute of Science (LIPI) on intolerance and radicalism, shows that the majority of the ...

Kalla calls for acceleration of post-earthquake reconstruction process

Vice President Jusuf Kalla has instructed his staff to speed up the reconstruction process after the earthquake ...

Timika residents raise funds for Central Sulawesi`s quake victims

Catholic and Muslim community members in Mimika District, Papua, organized a mass prayer and fundraising activities ...

Malaysian scout movement sympathizes with Lombok quake victims

The Malaysian Scout Movement expressed its sympathy to the Lombok Island earthquake victims by offering them ...

West Lombok suffers material losses of Rp4.1 trillion: govt

West Lombok Development Planning Agency has calculated that the recent deadly earthquakes had caused the district to ...

Lombok quakes cause W Lombok`s tax revenues to decrease: government

The recent earthquakes crippled West Lombok District`s tourism industry, making the local government to predict that ...

House Speaker encourages MUI to respond to radicalism at mosques

House Speaker Bambang Soesatyo encouraged the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) and Indonesian Ulemas Council ...

Government to root out seeds of radicalism at campuses

Amid concerns over the spread of radicalism in society and the exposure of universities to radical ideology, the ...

MUI calls for thorough investigation into attacks on ulemas

The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) has called for conducting an in-depth investigation into the violent attacks on ...

People called on to maintain interfaith harmony

House Speaker Bambang Soesatyo appealed to the people to maintain interfaith harmony and not to be provoked by the ...

Attacks on houses of worship barbaric acts: MUI

Advisory Council Chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) Din Syamsuddin said the attack on religious people and ...

Indonesia hit by more floods in 2017

At least 640 floods have hit Indonesia so far in 2017 or the most frequent ever with largest loss of lives and missing ...