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The International Centre for Islam and Pluralism (ICIP) was established in Jakarta in July 2003, after one year of preparation and dialogue. Participants in the dialogue process included intellectuals and specialists on Islam and pluralism, from Indonesia, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Thailand and the Philippines.
The principal goal of ICIP is to build a network of Islamic Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and progressive-moderate Muslim activists and intellectuals, in South-East Asia, and eventually around the globe. ICIP's soft launching took place on 11-11-2003 in Jakarta, Indonesia. |
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FPI gets tough on all foreign performers |
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The Jakarta Post | Mon, 05/07/2012 7:40 AM JAKARTA: The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) insists that the group has been protesting the presence of all foreign artists who wear “revealing clothes” in Jakarta, not just American singer Lady Gaga.
FPI spokesman Munarman said on Saturday that his organization demanded that the promoter cancel the controversial singers’ upcoming concert in June.
“Who said that we were just protesting her concert? That was the journalists’ fault for not asking us about the matter in the first place,” he said. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/05/07/fpi-gets-tough-all-foreign-performers.html |
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Activist, churchgoers to file reports over assaults |
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Lutfi Rakhmawati, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sun, 05/06/2012 8:40 PM A human rights activist and members of the Filadelfia Batak Protestant Union (HKBP) Church plan to file reports with the National Police after being assaulted and intimidated by dozens members of the hard-line Islamic Defender Front (FPI) while attending a Sunday sermon near the sealed church in Bekasi regency, West Java.
A member of the Association of Journalists for Diversity (Sejuk), Tantowi Anwari, had been undressed and beaten by FPI members. The group members disrupted the sermon, threatened churchgoers and broke parishioner property.
"Some FPI members drove me away and broke my motorcycle’s rearview mirror,” congregation member Nurmida Bintang told reporters during a press conference after a sermon was disrupted by FPI members. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/05/06/activist-churchgoers-file-reports-over-assaults.html |
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GKI Yasmin Church Can Reopen if a Mosque Is Built Next Door: Bogor Mayor |
Camelia Pasandaran | May 02, 2012
Bogor's embattled GKI Yasmin church can reopen, as long as a mosque is built next door, Bogor mayor Diani Budiarto said in a letter to the Presidential Advisory Board (Wantimpres) on Wednesday.
Bogor's administration sealed the church in April of 2010, forcing the beleaguered 300-member congregation to hold mass in front of the church or, at times, in private. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the church in 2010, but Diani ignored the ruling, leaving the congregation without a house of worship http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/home/gki-yasmin-church-can-reopen-if-a-mosque-is-built-next-door-bogor-mayor/515468 |
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GKI Yasmin church to be reopened, with a catch |
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The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Wed, 05/02/2012 The standoff over the Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) Yasmin’s building permit in Bogor, West Java, may be drawing to a end, but with the caveat that a mosque must be built neighboring the church.
Bona Sigalingging, the church’s spokesman, said on Wednesday that conflict resolution between the church’s worshippers and Bogor mayor Diano Budiarto, who suspended GKI Yasmin's building permit in 2008, had finally reached a “progressive” stage.
“The mayor has agreed with a proposal from the Presidential Advisory Council,” he said after a dispute-settlement meeting with the council and the National Defense Council http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/05/02/gki-yasmin-church-be-reopened-with-a-catch.html |
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