As police looked on, Muslims in West Java Province, Indonesia on Dec. 14 formed a human wall to block Christians from ...
Religious representatives met to discuss green solutions Activists say they can spur greater public engagement Indonesia seen making progress on environmental efforts KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 18 (Thomson ...
(JTA) — Some Muslim groups in Indonesia are demanding the closure of the country’s first permanent Holocaust exhibition, charging that it is part of an effort to normalize Indonesia’s relations with ...
More than half of Indonesian Muslims are concerned with the growth of Muslim extremism in their nation, according to a special report by the Pew Research Center. The Muslim leaders on CT’s panel were ...
JAKARTA (Reuters) - Pope Francis on Wednesday urged political leaders in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority country, to guard against religious extremism, which he said distorted ...
Palembang, Indonesia — A court in Indonesia has convicted a woman of inciting religious hatred and sentenced her to two years in prison for saying a Muslim prayer and then eating pork — considered ...
In 2022, two leading moderate Indonesian Islamic figures, Ahmad Syafii Ma’arif and Azyumardi Azra, passed away. With their departure, Indonesia’s Islamic discourse lost two moderate voices. Ma’arif’s ...
When she was widowed two years ago, most people in the Javanese village of Babakan Ciwaringin expected Nyai Yu Masriyah Amva to marry again. They also assumed that the local pesantran, or traditional ...
It’s rare when any political leader wins a 60% mandate in a free and fair election, which is why commentary on last week’s Indonesian election has focused on the personal success of President Susilo ...