Golkar deputy secretary-general Nurul Arifin said that the party did order all of its members to promote pluralism but that politicians had often disregarded the directive, bowing to pressure from local majority groups.
Source/Credit: The Jakarta Post
By Margareth S. Aritonang | July 30 2013
Political pragmatism by major political parties, that have long pandered to majority Sunni voters, has prevented the parties from protecting the rights of minority Muslim groups such as the Ahmadiyah and Shia.
Although nine political parties in the House of Representatives have provisions in their statutes to protect the rights of minority groups, some of them, particularly the Islamic-based National Awakening Party (PKB), the United Development Party (PPP) and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), have openly supported the Religious Affairs Ministry’s decision to maintain regulations deemed discriminatory against minorities groups, including the 2008 Joint Ministerial Decree that bans Ahmadis from practicing their faith over fears of blasphemy.
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