%0 Journal Article
%T Intolerance, Religious Lynchings and the Future of Indonesia
%A Andre Vltchek
%J Asia-Pacific Journal : Japan Focus
%D 2011
%I Asia-Pacific Journal
%X Twice in the same week two gruesome attacks shook Indonesia and the world. On February 6, 2011, in Cikeusik Village, West Java ¨C more than 1.000 furious Muslims lynched three members of a minority (or, as seen by some Muslims, ¡®deviant¡¯) Islamic sect Ahmadiyah. Two days later, on February 8 in Temanggung, Central Java, a crowd stormed a local courthouse and vandalized three churches after a man ¨C a former priest who allegedly insulted both Islam and Christianity in his pamphlet ¨C was sentenced to five years in prison, the maximum sentence. Protesters demanded the death penalty. A third attack soon followed.
%K Asia
%K Indonesia
%K Java
%K religious attacks
%K secular movement
%K religious intolerance
%U http://www.japanfocus.org/articles/view/3489