Indonesia: no buildings

World Watch Monitor  |  World
Date posted:  1 Feb 2016
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Indonesia: no buildings

President Widodo | photo: Wikipedia

President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo on 23 December promised a safe Christmas celebration throughout Indonesia.

Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim nation, but only one of its provinces, Aceh, in the Singkil regency, applies shari’a law.

Churches destroyed

Ten churches were destroyed in this province in October alone, out of more than 30 churches nationally which were torched, destroyed or forced to shut down in 2015.

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