Discrimination against the Shia is based in part on a decree issued in July 2012, by Governor Soekarwo, to impose penalties on anyone who “… propagates blasphemous teaching” as defined by the Indonesian Ulama Council.
Source/Credit: Human Rights Watch
By HRW | June 30, 2013
(New York) – Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono should order local authorities to return hundreds of Shia villagers to their home village and to ensure their security, Human Rights Watch said today. Yudhoyono should also publicly order local governments and security forces around the country to protect religious minorities threatened by militants, and enforce the order by dismissing officials who fail to carry it out.
In August 2012, more than 1,000 Sunni villagers attacked Nangkernang village in Sampang regency on Madura Island and burned down Shia houses, hacking one Shia resident to death, wounding another, and displacing more than 500. The mob told the Shia villagers that they could only return home if they first converted to Sunnism. The group was moved to Sampang stadium. On June 20, 2013, the leader of the Shia group was coerced by local officials and threats from a crowd of thousands of militant Sunnis into agreeing that the Shia should move to a town two hours away on the island of Java.
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