Your comments on reports, saying that vigilantes are the most religiously intolerance during this year.

 For too long the government has allowed groups of vigilantes, radicals, hooligans and criminals to have their way unhindered.
There are a number of reasons behind the government’s failure to protect its citizens. Our leaders do not know the meaning of governance. They are so timid that they are afraid to upset these goons! Thus, they are complicit in these acts of brutality because it’s part of their hidden agenda.
They are under the thumb of foreign interests to ensure that the country is always in turmoil so the foreign interests can continue to rob and pillage Indonesia of its natural resources.
Paul E. Rantau
Singapore
 
Indonesians generally have a very strange attitude when it comes to religion. It’s like a badge, a uniform. Fundamentally we are a hugely hypocritical nation. Religion here is all about the ceremony, the ritual.
Real faith and good religious practices are just a thin and very fragile veneer.
Things like goodwill and kindness are mostly lost causes in Indonesia, but they are of course the building blocks of all faiths.
 We are intolerant of other religions because it somehow compensates for some shortcoming; it seems to make us appear closer to our own stated faith.
Didi
Bandung

I have known Indonesia to be a country tolerant of other religions. Therefore, let us spread this tolerance and respect to others during the holiday season.
After all, we are one people and one nation and will return to the one Almighty. Let us live in peace and harmony.
A.M. Suparyanto
Pretoria, South Africa
The final word is that, in religious life at any rate, we validate a discriminatory society. Yes, we live in an era of discrimination. We can find discrimination in nearly all aspects of our lives. Discrimination is normal.
Edy Siswoyo
Jakarta

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