Ahmadiyah Muslims Under Attack again in Indonesia
In the latest of a string of attacks on the Ahmadiyah group, a mob hurled stones at at least five houses belonging to sect followers late Tuesday in Bogor district, West Java province, local media reported.
Separately, three men are on trial for damaging property and inciting violence in an October attack in another village in the same district.
They were allegedly part of a mob which torched houses, schools and a mosque belonging to the Ahmadis, who unlike mainstream Muslims, do not believe Mohammed was the last prophet.
Amnesty’s Asia-Pacific director Saman Zia-Zarifi said the increasing attacks on religious minorities, particularly the Ahmadiyah, showed a “major deterioration of the situation”.
“This is not the direction in which we had hoped to see Indonesia move. This is Indonesia moving in the wrong direction,” he told reporters.
“The central government’s inability or lack of desire to address these issues is potentially catastrophic,” he said.