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Indonesia: Interior ministry tries appeasement to end standoff with Muslim mayor ignoring court order on church opening

Dec 14, 2011 4:22 am By Marisol Seibold

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“The Supreme Court ruled in December 2010 that the closure was unlawful and ordered its reopening, but the city administration continues to ignore the ruling. Mayor Diani Budiarto has used several excuses to keep the church closed, most recently saying there should not be a Christian church on a street with an Islamic name.”

By all appearances, the Interior Ministry has no qualms about rewarding the mayor for defying a supreme court order. Its proposal is emblematic of the country’s approach to rising Islamic supremacism and the thuggery of groups like the Islamic Defenders Front in recent years: in all cases, take the path of least resistance.

“Bogor: offer to move church may be “a fatal trap”,” by Mathias Hariyadi for AsiaNews, December 13:

Bogor (AsiaNews) – The Indonesian Ministry of Interior has put forward a way to end the controversy over the construction of the Yasmin Church: namely, to propose three alternative locations to the Church Council (GKI) compared to the initial site, which generated the dispute . But the Church of Yasmin Council says that changing the site is not the solution, but only adds a new chapter to a new problem.

They know better than to think that would be the end of the story, especially if it is the mayor’s proposal. New complications would be invented. They might be told to start the process all over again for a permit at the new address.

This has the appearance of another delaying tactic to keep Yasmin Church from ever operating normally, in a backdoor enforcement of Sharia’s prohibition on building or repairing churches, which is also the practical effect of the execrable permit system itself.

Opposition to the church building stemmed originally from the Mayor of Bogor, Diani Budiarto, who opposes the construction and now this opposition is supported by the Interior Minister Gamawan Fauzi, who said today to agree with Budiarto’s proposal: namely move the construction of the church to another place. According to Fauzi, the authorities in West Java have offered three sites that could be used for Yasmin Church, as an alternative to the place in dispute.

Yasmin Church spokesman, Bona Sigalingging however, tells AsiaNews that this option is not a solution to the problem, namely civil disobedience by Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto. Even if the authorities in West Java offered three different locations free of charge, as announced by the Minister of the Interior, the GKI would not accept the offer. “We will not accept any proposal of that type. In our opinion, any offer to move the site of the church is illegal. ” Bona complained about a series of “infringements of the law” committed by the Interior Ministry, which overlook the verdict issued by the Indonesian Supreme Court. “The state, of which the Interior Ministry is part, must apply the law, and not the opposite, offering alternative solutions to end the dispute,” he said.

The GKI”s strong opposition to the relocation project is based on two basic reasons, according to Sigalingging. The first is of a legal nature, neither the Ombudsman nor the Indonesian Supreme Court has ever issued an option to place the construction of the Church elsewhere. Then there is a historical reason. The faithful of Citeking to Bekasi in West Java, received the offer to relocate the permanent site of the church in a hall owned by the local authority from Bekasi authorities. But the continuity of Sunday services is becoming uncertain.

“We will never accept this offer, because it could be a fatal trap for a religious minority group. The faithful have received the promise of Citeking local authorities to have their church, but so far the promise has vanished in the wind. ” He also rejects claims by followers of Budiarto, that the Yasmin Church used false signatures for the permit and says this must be brought to the attention of the judges. “It is absolutely immoral and illegal that a charge based on false arguments become the basis of the government’s decision to move the site of construction,” says the spokesman of the Church Yasmin….

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