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    • Blaspheming Religion vs Blaspheming Humanity 

      AL KHANIF (The Jakarta Post, 2016-12-23)
      In the past few months, Indonesia, particularly Jakarta, has been on high alert for massive protests to persecute a person accused of blaspheming a religion. The reactions of people and organizations supporting the ...

    • Challenging and Asserting Human Rights 

      AL KHANIF (The Jakarta Post, 2015-12-11)
      Human rights regimes argue that the protection of the rights of individuals is one of the significant elements of a democratic state. It is because of this that liberalism promotes the equality of non-mainstream groups of ...

    • Defending Pancasila to Protect Indonesian Pluralism 

      AL KHANIF (The Jakarta Post, 2016-06-01)
      The Constitutional Court asserted in 2009 that Pancasila was a foundation of the state that could not be amended. As a supreme source of law in Indonesia’s legal system, Pancasila, which was founded 70 years ago, consists ...

    • Indonesia doesn't Need to Further Blasphemy Law 

      AL KHANIF (The Jakarta Post, 2015-01-16)
      The act of blasphemy and its impact on human rights is a worldwide phenomenon. The debate on whether blasphemy laws should be retained, reformed or abolished has been raised by many human rights advocates, as blasphemy ...

    • NU Must Deal with Members' Persecution of Minorities 

      AL KHANIF (The Jakarta Post, 2015-08-05)
      Since a few months ago, Islam Nusantara or Islam of the Indonesian archipelago, which is the theme of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) congress this year, has stirred controversy. Even though some NU leaders have stated that the ...

    • The Paradox of Religious (in)tolerance in Indonesia 

      AL KHANIF (The Jakarta Post, 2015-10-16)
      Indonesia has once again witnessed religious violence, this time a clash between a majority group and a minority. The violence occurred in Aceh Singkil, and resulted in the destruction of a church, one man dead and others ...

    • Questioning a Theistic, Secular Pancasila to Protect Religions 

      AL KHANIF (The Jakarta Post, 2015-06-01)
      Since its introduction to Indonesian polity 70 years ago today, Pancasila has faced challenges ,particularly in equally protecting all religions in Indonesia as enshrined in its first principle, Belief in One Supreme God.

    • Rohingya: The Problem of Minority Groups 

      AL KHANIF (The Jakarta Post, 2015-05-27)
      The Rohingya have long experienced state-sanctioned discrimination. Recently, they have been persecuted as a result of the influence of hate speeches by Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu.

    • Tolikara: Majority-minority ties and its Discontent 

      AL KHANIF (The Jakarta Post, 2015-07-25)
      Most Indonesians were shocked by the incident in Tolikara, Papua, when Muslims who held an Idul Fitri prayer service in a local mosque were disrupted by a violent Christian mob affiliated with the Evangelical Church of ...