Indonesian police stood guard outside churches Wednesday after a
wave of religious hate crimes swept across the mainly Muslim
country, shocking civil society and sparking international
concern.President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who has been criticised
for failing to stem the violence, ordered the police and military
to go 'all-out' against extremists behind the unrest.'Every person
should be guaranteed protection and safety, whatever his faith,
ethnicity, race, political affiliation or profession,' the soft
spoken ex-general said in a speech to provincial governors.'The
string of violence must be stopped. I have instructed all regional
heads, police and military regional commands to launch all-out
actions... to prevent these violent actions from
happening.'Indonesia's image as a bastion of inter-faith harmony
has been battered in recent months by violent Islamic extremism and
marauding vigilante groups. The wave of hate crimes targeting
Christians and other minorities climaxed on Sunday when hundreds of
enraged Muslims brutally murdered three followers of a heterodox
Islamic sect in front of police, who did little to intervene.The
country was still in shock after a disturbing video of that lynch
mob attack emerged when another crowd of Muslim hardliners rampaged
through the streets of Temanggung, Central Java, on Tuesday.This
time police responded with tear gas but again failed to stop the
mob, which set fire to two churches and vandalised a Catholic
school as they called for the death of a Christian man who had been
sentenced to jail for blaspheming Islam.Italian Foreign Minister
Franco Frattini described the incident as a 'very serious
demonstration of anti-Christian fanaticism'. US Ambassador Scot
Marciel said the United States 'joins the vast majority of
Indonesians in deploring the violence' against the Ahmadiyah sect,
and noted 'with concern' the church burnings in Central Java.Human
rights organisations have urged Yudhoyono to do more to tackle
intolerance in the country of 240 million people, 80 percent of
whom are Muslims, saying religious violence is on the rise. Central
Java provincial police spokesman Djihartono said almost 1,200
security personnel had been deployed in Temanggung in response to
Tuesday's unrest.'We have deployed 1,183 personnel including from
the military, which we have mobilised in several important
locations such as churches, prisons, the prosecutors' office and
the commercial centre,' he said.Yudhoyono, who depends on the
support of Islamic parties in his fragile rainbow coalition, has
vowed to defend constitutionally enshrined rights to freedom of
religion yet simultaneously gives Islamic vigilantes a free hand.
He has also refused to sack senior police for failing to deal with
the vigilantes, some of whom enjoy close ties to the security
forces.Nor has he censured ministers who justify the violence or
reviewed legislation which activists say facilitates
discrimination, such as the 1965 blasphemy law or a 2008 decree
restricting Ahmadiyah. Local rights groups have demanded the
resignation of Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali, who says
the Ahmadiyah would be safe if they simply renounced Islam. Last
year he called for the sect to be banned.In other comments seen as
typical of the government, Communications Minister Tifatul
Sembiring posted a message on Twitter late Tuesday saying that
while burning places of worship is wrong, so is 'provoking ... mass
anger' with blasphemy.The Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace
said in a report last month that there were 216 incidents of
religious freedom violations in 2010, up from 200 in 2009. Most
targeted Christians and Ahmadiyah, including assaults, sealing of
places of worship and the prohibition of religious activities.see
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