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JAKARTA, Indonesia — Every year, as the Islamic holy month of Ramadan approached, Surya Sahetapy and his close friends would start to feel depressed. They were at their wits’ ends about how to ...
YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia (Reuters) – Concerned about how Indonesian students with hearing impairments often miss out on religious education, cleric Abdul Kahfi founded an Islamic boarding school to ...
JAKARTA: Tens of thousands of hardline Muslim protesters in Indonesia marched on Friday to the presidential palace to demand the resignation of the governor of the capital, Jakarta, who they said ...
At least four Indonesian ISPs have blocked access to YouTube for carrying a Dutch lawmaker's film that accuses the Koran of inciting violence.(From Reuters) ...
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia's Ministry of Religious Affairs launched a guidebook for reading the Braille Quran intended for people with visual disabilities to make it easier for them to understand ...
Indonesia's senior Muslim clerics issue first ever fatwa against wildlife smuggling and challenge the country's 200 million Muslims to protect threatened ... Invoking passages from the Koran, ...
Indonesia's Aceh province will begin testing candidates for next year's provincial elections on the Koran from Monday, an election commission official said.
“The Quran is very clear” that Christian leaders are forbidden, said Sofyan, who goes by only one name and who helped coordinate anti-Ahok protests for the hardline Forum Umat Islam group.
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At least four Indonesian ISPs have blocked access to YouTube for carrying a Dutch lawmaker's film that accuses the Koran of inciting violence. (From Reuters) ...
[1/3] Students prepare to attend a class at a boarding school for hearing-impaired children, where they learn the holy scripture of Koran and recite in sign language, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia ...