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Islands in focus: House of worship burned down in Rembang
A house of worship of traditional Javanese belief-system, Sapta Darma, standing in Blando hamlet, Plawangan village, Rembang regency, Central Java, was burned down on Tuesday by a Muslim group
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house of worship of traditional Javanese belief-system, Sapta Darma, standing in Blando hamlet, Plawangan village, Rembang regency, Central Java, was burned down on Tuesday by a Muslim group.
'The regency administration will facilitate the creation of a new building. It will later find a plot,' Rembang Sapta Darma Association (Persada) chairman Sutrisno said on Wednesday.
Sutrisno said the relocation was only planned for the burned house of worship, not the Sapta Darma followers in the hamlet.
'So far, the followers live in peace and harmony with other residents. It's only the house of worship that will be relocated,' he said as quoted by kompas.com, adding that there were 100 Sapta Darma followers in the district and around 250 in the regency. So far there has been no investigation into the arson that cost Sapta Darma Rp 100 million (US$7,142) in losses.
