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View all search resultsThe West Sumatra Police on Tuesday declared Sudarto a suspect for posting a statement on his Facebook social media account opposing the local administration’s alleged discrimination against Christians in Dharmasraya regency.
As the building could only accommodate about 1,500 people, the church had to conduct two Christmas masses a day to serve its whole congregation, which consists of about 9,000 members. More than 5,000 people in total packed the church for Christmas masses on Tuesday evening and also on Wednesday.
Neither the draft bylaw on religious harmony nor the one on a religious city, proposed by the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) faction at the city council and Depok Mayor Muhammad Idris, respectively, has been included in the bylaw legislation program (Propemrda) for 2020.
The research, which started last October and is expected to be complete in September, also finds that non-mainstream organizations are inclined to opt for religious freedom as they perceive freedom to be more significant for their survival.
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