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 Speaking about the two recent meetings, Christian leaders said they were satisfied about the central government’s moves. Church leaders reiterated their support for dialogue, noting that their role is to prepare the ground for a “real dialogue” between government officials and Papuan leaders. 

According to the Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace, a group that champions pluralism, Yudhoyono delivered 19 speeches in 2011 that encouraged the embrace of tolerance. However, the group said, there was a lack of action to substantiate the words, with intolerance steadily on the rise in Indonesia. 

Amidst the events surround the GKI Yasmin church dispute, an allegation has come forth that one of the church members knocked the chief of the Bogor administration's Public Order Agency unconscious during a confrontation in October.  However, the Yasmin church believes that the authorities are discriminating against them, and one politician has said that "the police are just trying to find GKI Yasmin at fault."

Hundreds of members of a congregation denied the right to build its own church in Bogor demonstrated in the capital yesterday, calling on the president to do something to uphold the law. They complain about repeated acts of intimidation by radical Muslims, backed by Bogor mayor Diani Budiarto.

Concerning the GKI Yasmin church dispute in Indonesia, Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali said that the "problem is a legal  matter and legal conflicts should be settled by law."

“The Vietnamese government continues to be an egregious violator of a broad array of human rights,” said chairman US Representative Chris Smith.  He added: “Vietnam continues to control religious communities, severely restrict and penalize independent religious practices, and brutally repress individuals and groups viewed as challenging its authority.”

Someone going by the name of Rudi Yohanes, who claimed to be a student at the Pangudi Lujur 1 school, said on the social network that he was ‘anti-Islamic’. Fundamentalist groups reacted by attacking three Catholic schools, causing damages and the temporary closure of the facilities. In reality, the name and profile were fakes by an unknown user.

"We were conducting our worship at one member's home before people from Forkami and Garis came to our place," GKI Yasmin spokeswoman Dwiati Novita Rini told The Jakarta Post over the telephone on Sunday.  The congregation resisted efforts by about 50 Public Order Agency (Satpol PP) officers to stop their service, Dwiati said.

"... the service was interrupted by hundreds of members of the Indonesian Muslim Communication Forum (Forkami) and the Islamic Reform Movement (Garis), who chanted “Allahu akbar” (“God is great”) while mocking and shoving the worshipers."

“We have exhausted ourselves trying to report the case to the Human Rights Commission [Komnas HAM], the Judicial Commission, the House of Representatives and even the vice president,” the Rev. Palty Panjaitan said. “But nothing has changed. We can only wait for the Bekasi government’s kindness and hope that God hears our prayers.”

“We are not afraid of the officers. If the Yasmin congregation is not dismissed, we will deploy a bigger group,”

" The police bomb squad blew up the package in a controlled blast but found that it only contained a ticking clock, earlier thought to be a bomb’s timing device."

 The Indonesian Protestant Church Union, locally known as PGI, counted 54 acts of violence and other violations against Christians in 2011, up from 30 in 2010.

 The bumper sticker, on the back of a church member’s car, said, “We need a friendly Islam, not an angry Islam.”

"The institute reported that 36 regulations had been drafted or implemented that banned religious practices that were deemed as deviant from Islam, including the Ahmadiyah, required dress, respect toward holy days and obligation to pay alms."

A statement published by the "Parung Society of Muslim " emphasizes the "strong support" of the stance of the Govenor of Bogor regency, who opposes the plan to build a church for the faithful of the parish of St. John the Baptist.

Benny said the vandal also removed a sacred cross measuring one-and-a-half meters in width and destroyed a number of other smaller statues and a holy water container.