A US judge has ordered that ExxonMobil must face a lawsuit launched by Indonesian villagers. The villagers, from Aceh, say the oil giant has contributed to human rights abuses committed by Indonesian military personnel.
(Via the WSJ Law Blog.)
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Radical Muslim and Christian groups stoke the embers of Papua’s conflict.
Note the involvement of American Protestant churches in this region — not dissimilar to Saudi-funded Salafi preachers in the West…
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Islam Waktu Telu, a mixture of Islam and ancestor and spirit worship, remains alive on the island of Lombok, in Indonesia.
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A report by the International Crisis Group says ‘hardline Muslim groups in Indonesia are gaining greater influence over government policy’.
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Indscribe is scathing on the matter of the mass protests against the Ahmadiyyas in Indonesia.
It is sad to see the energies of Muslims getting channelised in the wrong way. No wonder, a columnist had remarked that all Muslim countries together haven’t achieved anything in magnitude compared to the achievements of a tiny country like Korea.
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President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed a decree Monday ordering members of a minority Muslim sect to stop practicing their form of Islam or face arrest.
