{"id":30475,"date":"2018-11-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csw-yeo.1wp.site\/reports\/indonesia-visit-report-4159\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T19:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:31:39","slug":"indonesia-visit-report-4159","status":"publish","type":"reports","link":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/reports\/indonesia-visit-report-4159\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia: Visit report"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/0ba17aabc7695ca8748309f3e5ced19d.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Radical Islamist extremism, the politicisation of religion, and identity politics are contributing to a continuing and severe rise in religious intolerance in Indonesia. Despite a long tradition of moderate Islam and religious pluralism, violations of freedom of religion or belief have become more frequent and serious over the past decade. Identity politics and the \u2018instrumentalisation of religion\u2019 are becoming more intense, according to the General Secretary of the Communion of Churches in Indonesia (PGI), Reverend Gomar Gultom. \u201cThe seed of radicalisation has spread throughout Indonesia,\u201d he added. Alamsyah M Djafar, a researcher at the Wahid Foundation, agreed. Although many Indonesians still want a moderate, pluralistic society, he said, \u201cIf intolerance increases, the threat of radicalism increases, and that will change the face of Indonesia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CSW visited Indonesia for ten days in August 2018 and met civil society groups, human rights defenders and religious communities in Jakarta and Surabaya \u2013 including the Ahmadiyya mosque in Depok, a suburb of Jakarta, which has been forcibly closed (see p.6); and three churches in Surabaya which had been attacked by suicide bombers three months previously, on 13 May (see p.6). CSW met survivors of the attacks, and we were deeply impressed by their message of forgiveness. According to Father Aloysius Widyawan, a priest at Santa Maria Tak Bercela Catholic Church, the consistent message from all his parishioners was: \u201cWe must love others, we forgive the attackers, we do not want revenge.\u201d The mother of two young boys, aged 8 and 12, who died from their injuries, said just two days after their deaths, \u201cI have already forgiven the bombers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2018-10-indonesia-visit-report.pdf\" target=\"_self\">Read the Indonesia visit report in full.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CSW visited Indonesia for ten days in August 2018 and met civil society groups, human rights defenders and religious communities in Jakarta and Surabaya.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":44470,"template":"","categories":[],"regions":[128,132],"class_list":["post-30475","reports","type-reports","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","regions-east-asia","regions-indonesia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reports"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36999,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reports\/30475\/revisions\/36999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30475"},{"taxonomy":"regions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.csw.org.uk\/zh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regions?post=30475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}