Submitted by communications on Tue, 01/03/2012 - 12:00am Izak
Lattu, a doctoral student in Interdisciplinary Studies,
denounces changes by the Indonesian government which oppress
practioners of indigenous religion. "Although indigenous faiths
such as Sunda Wiwitan, Kejawen and other forms of traditional
beliefs represent local ways of addressing the Ultimate Reality,
they nonetheless encounter discrimination on a political
basis.... Submitted by communications on Sun, 11/20/2011 -
12:00am Izak Lattu, doctoral student in Interdisciplinary
Studies, explains how the actions of one Indonesian politician
marks the exception to the general principle of religious
tolerance in the country for which it is revered. "It has been
years of agony for GKI Taman Yasmin Protestant church
congregation members as Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto has defied a
Supreme Court decision to allow them to attend Sunday mass in
their place of worship. Budiarto’s bureaucratic move reflects
the failure of not only law enforcement in the city, b