Muslim communities; however, debates continued regarding incorporating elements of Sharia law, such as khalwat (being in close physical proximity with an unrelated member of the opposite sex), into secular civil and criminal law.
Minority religions were generally free to practice their beliefs, but sometimes faced limits on religious expression, including on the use of real property.
On May 30, he was charged under the pornography law for allegedly sending sexually explicit messages to Firza Husein, who has been arrested for treason on suspicion that she was trying to orchestrate a coup.
In Indonesia, it has established more than 150 mosques, provided books to schools, brought in its own preachers and teachers, and disbursed thousands of scholarships for graduate study back in Saudi Arabia.
The strict enforcement of Sharia law in some states has placed additional restrictions on the Muslim population that has been marked by Sharia courts handing down caning sentences for actions such as alcohol consumption and khalwat.
In prior years, various Hindu temples and cemeteries had been relocated or demolished as a result of an April 2009 government plan to relocate 29 Hindu temples in and around Kuala Lumpur to other locations.
After Saudi King Salman's visit to Indonesia in March 2017, the Saudis said they wanted to open two or three more similar institutes.
The embassy arranged visits to the United States for Islamic educators and hosted several iftar dinners to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
The Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF), an unregistered umbrella organization for NGOs focused on ethnic Indian concerns, remained active in raising issues of discrimination against the Indian and Hindu communities, despite remaining subject to a 2008 ban.
The Indonesian Islamic Propagation Council (Indonesian: Dewan Dakwah Islamiyah Indonesia (DDII)) is a Sunni Islamic organization in Indonesia which aimed at dawah (proselytizing).
The religious, social, and political fabric has been stretched and may be torn, especially if the tactics used in the election for Governor are repeated on a national scale in the next Presidential contest, due in 2019.
Islam, changed his name to Mohd Ridzuan Abdullah, and had surreptitiously converted her three children, ages one to 12 years old, to Islam without her knowledge by presenting their birth certificates to the state religious department in Ipoh, Perak.
JAKIM and the National Registration Department (NRD) would automatically document the conversion so that the information would be made available to interested parties in an effort to avoid disputes over the status of Muslim converts upon their death.
Shia followers were arrested, including an Iranian who was giving a sermon, for potential violations of section 12 (c) of the Selangor Sharia Offenses Act for insulting, questioning, violating, and disobeying a religious decree issued by the state mufti.
The traditionalist NU was founded in 1926 partly in response to the Saudi destruction of tombs and other holy places in Mecca and Medina and to rumors that they intended to destroy the Prophet's tomb.
For example, government officials and religious leaders forbade lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights group Seksualiti Merdeka from holding its annual arts festival in October.
When I attended NU's quinquennial Congress in 2015, I was particularly struck by the sale of reprints of the 1922 work Menolak Wahhabi (Wahhabism Rejected) by Muhammad Faqih Maskumambang, one of NU's founders.
District Office correctly refused to supply water and electricity to the church building in Kampung Pasu on the grounds that the building was illegally erected as a place of worship on state land without the approval of the Land Office.
Observers reported that many convenience stores located in predominantly Malay neighborhoods, such as in Shah Alam, the capital of Selangor state, voluntarily stopped selling alcohol due to quiet pressure from government and religious authorities.
August 3 approximately 30 officers from JAIS raided the Dream Centre Building at the Damansara Utama Methodist Church in Petaling Jaya, Selangor, during an annual thanksgiving dinner hosted by a private charitable organization, Harapan Komuniti, on suspicion of proselytizing to Muslims.
His work has been translated into Albanian, Arabic, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Ukrainian.
This amendment introduced an ambiguity regarding Sharia versus secular law that has not been resolved clearly.
The government maintains a dual legal system, whereby Sharia courts rule on religious, family, and some criminal issues involving Muslims and secular courts rule on other issues pertaining to both Muslims and the broader population.
Religious minorities continued to face limitations on religious expression, including restrictions on the purchase and use of real property.
There have been widespread demonstrations in support of Ahok, but many of his supporters are afraid to speak out.
In 1815, the returnees from Arabia and their followers, known as Padris, killed most of the Minangkabau royal family.
The government observes the following religious holidays as national holidays: for Islam, Hari Raya Puasa, Hari Raya Qurban, the Birth of the Prophet Muhammad, and Awal Muharram; for Buddhism, Wesak Day; for Hinduism, Deepavali and Thaipusam; and for Christianity, Christmas.
Muslims from Indonesia are 20 times less likely to try to join ISIS than are Muslims from the US, and 50 times less likely than Muslims from the UK or other parts of Europe.
One positive effect of Ahok's trial and imprisonment has been that many Indonesians now realize that they have been too complacent about the extent of extremism, and this has led to a more aggressive campaign to confront Islamist radicalism.
