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The National Awakening Party (PKB) says it is offended by the recent spate of violent attacks conducted in the name of Islam. “We firmly condemn the actions taken in Cikeusik, Banten and Temanggung.
We request that the National Police be given the systematic ability to prevent horizontal conflicts,” PKB chairman Muhaimin Iskandar said as quoted by tribunnews.com news portal.
Iskandar’s statement came after two violent incidents on Sunday and Tuesday. In Banten, three Ahmadiyah followers were attacked on Sunday by an angry mob, while another mob destroyed four churches in Temanggung, Central Java, on Tuesday after a verdict was issued in a case involving blasphemy against Islam.
According to tempointeraktif.com, dozens of members of Banser, the youth wing of Nahdlatul Ulama, the nation’s largest Muslim political and social group, helped clean the ruins of the Santo Petrus and Santo Paulus churches damaged in Temanggung.
Your comments:
It was an excellent and inspired gesture to help clean up the churches. Even though some people use the name of religion in supporting violence, those people are not religious.
Religious people should and do look for the things that bring people together, and treat others the way they would like to be treated themselves. The people who helped
clean the churches have set a very good example.
John
Singapore
Well done to the PKB and Banser. The majority of Indonesians would support your views against the stupidity shown by the few idiots involved in these recent attacks.
During the Lombok church attacks in 2000 I witnessed similar condemnation of the attackers.
The majority Muslim population of Lombok protected followers of the other religions and guarded their properties including a Christian hospital.
I remember a sign board from Lombok which read Kita Semua Satu (We are one) which is still indicative of the friendliness and consideration of the Indonesian people.
Barry Acott
Australia
My experience of Lombok is of a beautiful people manipulated by religion. But sooner or later the broad brush of blame has to stop and individuals must be held accountable.
We shall see who wants it the most and hopefully we will survive the power struggle.
Indonesia has moved on but the power brokers still play chess with the people (for amusement? money? power? ideology?).
Ronald
Jakarta
The Nahdlatul Ulama are acting like true Muslims and setting a good example. More than the government is doing.
Sheldon
Probolinggo
