Among the most controversial revisions to the code are articles that would penalize sex outside of marriage with up to one year in jail, outlaw cohabitation between…
Secretary of State Antony Blinken, second right, meets with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, second left, at the Pancasila Building in Jakarta on Dec.…
”The Indonesian parliament is considering changes to the criminal code, the current incarnation of which was inherited from the country’s former Dutch…
Monib interprets this in the Indonesian context to mean “all religions protected by Pancasila,” Indonesia’s political philosophy, which sanctions…
In July, the government banned the international Islamist organization Hizbut Tahrir because it threatened the nation's pluralist state ideology, known as…
In the 2009 and 2014 elections, Golkar has won less than 15 percent of the legislative seats and its presidential candidates lost in both 2004 and 2009.In the past,…
Indonesia has never been a completely secular country since its independence in 1945, but it has enshrined religious tolerance in its state ideology, known as…
He also singled out the easternmost Papua region, one of the country’s poorest areas where Indonesian rule is deeply resented by indigenous Papuans, saying he wants…
“It is loathed by moderate members of the two largest Muslim social organizations in Indonesia, Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah, which have seen it take over many…
Beyond FPI, Indonesian Security Minister Wiranto also announced that the state would ban the radical Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) because its goals run…
