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Java No. 55 Year 2012 about Development of Religious Activities and Supervision Cult of East Java. hat policy tends to stimulate
intolerance and discrimination occurrence against religious and belief groups.
Besides it, the big cases such as Syiah Sampang also indicates that socio-cultural cohesion of tolerant groups not well-
functioned. he defeat of Muslim majority in East Java is mainly opened such as what characterized by NU in general all this
time and local government’s submission to intolerant groups that actually minor, showing about tolerant group’s social demarcation
is not functioned well from intolerant Muslim minority. he silent majority is large in East Java, so the fatwas telling misdirection of
Syiah are not presedent, either in East Java of Indonesia. hey are stealthy trying to afect society and to blow up the case of Syiah
Sampang I and II which are tragic. he majority group that silent and indiferent in East Java, so the fatwa of misdirection on Syi’ah
mazhab which has no presedent, either in Indonesia or outside Indonesia, silently working to inluence society and blooming the
case of Syi’ah Sampang I and II which are so tragic.
d. DKI Jakarta: Open Space for Intolerant Group
DKI Jakarta is the most important urban area in this country because its status as the capital of the state. Jakarta has population
about 8.839.247 in the night, and becomes more crowded in daytime because Jakarta illed by people who comes from surrounding the
city, around 12 or more. Relating to it, Jakarta is a conobstacle center of all interests.
In relation to the issue if freedom of religionbelief, as the conobstacle center, Jakarta becomes one area of dakwah for various
religious group, including the groups which embracing intolerant aspiration that continously threatening guarantee of freedom
of religionbelief. DKI is being “green open space” for intolerant group in idea, attitude, and action.
hat situation becomes one of triggers for the growth kinds of actions and event of violations on freedom of religionbelief in
Jakarta. he research and monitoring that performed by SETARA
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Institute since 2007 notes that 189 events have occured. he highest violation occured in 2008 with 45 events.
One of problem aspect of freedom of religionbelief that becomes “favourite area” in Jakarta is the issue of house of worship
establishment. he problem of house of worship establishment in DKI Jakarta that still leaving very acute problem. One of its causal
factors surely relating to regulation that talks about it, namely the Joint Decree of Minister of Religion and Minister of Internal
Afairs Number 9 Year 2006 and Number 8 Year 2006 about House of Worship Establishment. In one side that regulation suggested to
arrange the matter of house of worship establishment, but on the other side this regulation causes diiculties of minority group to
establish house of worship.
his diiculty oten appears in approval rules on permit from surrounding people, where house of worship will be built.
Besides that, with diiculty to collect signatures from majority’s people surrounding, the Local Government also strengthening
its intolerant attitude to not pursuing the principals permit of that establishment of house of worship. Outside that such
“administrative” problem, the intolerant groups tends to be more powerful to justify the establishment of House of Worship with
kinds of accusation and provocation that the minority group’s house of worship establishment is assesed ilegal and unlicensed, as
the sample as in Jakarta.
Since the 5 last year recorded 20 problems related to Church and intolerant actions in Jakarta, such as intimidation, terror,
destruction and prohibition of government oicial placement on behalf of religious identity. hey are: house of worship
establishment of Jemaat Gereja Pantekosta di Indonesia GPDI of Immanuel Sukapura, Cilincing, North Jakarta main event is
in 2007, Bethel Indonesia Church GBI Semper, Tanjung Priok 2008, Gereja GAPEMBRI in Tambora, West Jakarta 2009,
Gereja St.Yohannes Maria Vianney Church, Cilangkap, East Jakarta 2010, and Katolik Paroki Santa Maria Church in Kalvari,
Lubang Buaya, Pondok Gede, East Jakarta 2011.
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In 2013, one of prominent problem is house of worship establishment of Katolik Paroki Damai Kristus Church, on Jalan
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Duri Selatan V29 RT 001505, Kecamatan Tambora, West Jakarta. Rejection of people group becomes public concern. he problem
of this rejection of house of worship establishment that still occurs in Jakarta is one of serious irony because happens in the Center of
Republic, where the plurality and diversity are the natural symbols, and Bhinneka Tunggal Ika is its principle.
Some of violation events on freedom of religionbelief which happened in Jakarta along this time are performed by Islam
Defenders Front FPI, Islamic People Forum FUI, and some religious and tribal groups which alliances to FPI dan FUI.
DKI Jakarta as the city which has vission to be Multicultural City, since the research and monitoring of SETARA Institute in
2007, still stutter to take action, especially against radical groups’ action with intolerant aspiration. And in the period of Basuki
Tjahaja Purnama Ahok as the governor, strict action has been shown. As coveraged by mass media, Ahok sent letter to Ministry
of Internal Afairs. he letter tells about recommendation of FPI dissolution because it continously performs crimes and many
actions which in contrary to the state law and public interests.
In 2014, the condition of freedom of religionbelief in Jakarta is generally constant as same as the previous. here is not
signiicant progress. he issue is also same, mostly tells about house of worship. About the Church establishment and others, those are
the impact of old events that have not been well-solved. In Bogor, Depok and so on. he quiet new event and got national attention
is intolerant political model that developed by FPI to reject Ahok’s leadership. But, unfortunately it happens in many places and
develops, so there are some reports that says about many preachers in Friday praying to campaign of rejecting Ahoj by using religious
sentiments. “Ahok is inidel and it is forbidden for us to defend the inidel person, so as Muslim we should ight to refuse Ahok as
governor of DKI.” hese are what fairly coloring the situation of this last four months.
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KontraS he Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence assess if compared to the previous years, violation and
intolerance in Jabodetabek are decreasing.
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Freedom of religion is closely relatig to people’s ability to express or to ensure what
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is considered as religious beliefs. he government’s role could be seen from how far the individual has free situation to express
what is considered as a belief. In the case of DKI Jakarta, the condition is relatively ine, that is when someone could have belief
without any disturbance from others. In casuistic, the case against minority appears rarely. hen, how the state facilitate worhip or
manifestation of worship of religious group in society. In this context, the role of FKUB DKI Jakarta is getting more leverage
compared to the regions surrounding Jakarta. FKUB is established as a neutral medium to representate religious groups. But while
the state disable to ensure FKUB to be a neutral organization and to fulill its authority to facilitate all the religious groups, so the
state’s role become noting. Moreover, it could be called that the state performs violation actively.
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But from the perspective of he National Commission on Violence Against Women Komnas Perempuan, there are at
least three regions in Jabodetabek where having get more better condition on freedom of religionbelief. hose three regions are
Bekasi, Depok, and Bogor which became vurnerable regions of issue on freedom of religionbelief. he fundamental Islamic
groups or hardline Islamic group, are quiet powerful in those such three regions that make the situation of the issue getting disturbed.
he opening of democracy in Indonesia has two sides, they are positive and negative sides.
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In the analysis of SETARA Institute, Jakarta is a province with high vurnerability and intolerance level inside of red zone.
Some accumulating factors, are: First, the high number of violation on freedom of religionbelief in last 7 years. About 189 events in
higher action level are surely the quantitative limit that high for violation on freedom of religionbelief if compared to another
regions. Second, the groups of organization of intolerance ideas bearer that quietly consolidated. hird, the local government
policy to demarcate movements against the law from intolerance groups are not fairly clear and systematic, except “the individual
ight” of Ahok to battle FPI. Fourth, the society tends to ignore and fragmanted by their own interests, contributed to increasing
vurnerability of freedom of religionbelief condition in Jakarta.
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e. West Nusa Tenggara: he Long-Drawn Omission
