Posted on 06/29/2023 6:19:57 PM PDT by marshmallow
Incidents of Muslim groups objecting to houses serving as worship places were reported from two places on Java island recently
Muslim groups in Indonesia continue to prevent Christians from holding religious activities inside houses as they were yet to receive a government permit, which is difficult to obtain in the most populous Muslim-majority country.
Disturbances occurred on June 18 at two places on the island of Java, the world's most populous island and home to nearly 56 percent of the Indonesian population, adding to the long list of cases of suppression of religious minorities in the Southeast Asian nation.
In a video that went viral on June 20, a hardline Muslim group was seen disrupting a religious gathering of the New Testament Christian Church at a house in Bekasi, West Java.
The group, led by the head of the local community forum, came to the Dawn of Hope Prayer House and demanded that the faithful stop their activities as the place was not a house of worship.
Pastor Ellyson Lase of the New Testament Christian Church told UCA News on June 21 that they had received a warning last month from the forum head against conducting prayers at the house.
The pastor, however, told the head that he was imparting religious education to Christian students who do not get it at public schools.
“I am in charge of this place. I am in charge of this area and don't make your own rules, follow my rules," the forum head told the pastor.
Lase said they conduct worship in the house only on Sundays.
The police have started a probe into the incident, he added.
The second incident occurred in Banyuanyar, Solo City, Central Java, where Muslim groups, riding motorcycles, put up a banner at the door of a house that was......
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