Indonesia vs. Catholic Church

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Indonesian Ambassador to Australia Hamzah Thayeb has accused some Australian aid groups of fuelling separatist (freedom) sentiment in restive Papua said Indonesia was assembling a dossier of evidence on the activities of Catholic aid agencies in Papua.

So do people think Bishop Belo should have kept quite about the mass murders in East Timor, should the Franciscans have closed the schools when the Indonesians moved into Papua in 1962, and should the Yale Law School and human rights organizations stop making reports about the pass forty years occupation being a genocide and illegal ?
 
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Hmmm… I don’t know enough about the issue. Certainly there are anti-Christian Indonesians but prominent Indonesians also defend the Church.
Former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid condemned in no uncertain terms the forced closure by local Muslim militants of the St Bernadette Catholic School in Cileduk, Banten province (40 km west of Jakarta). Speaking before the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country’s largest Muslim organisation, Wahid, who is also known as Gus Dur and is a former NU chairman, urged local authorities to let the school reopen.

For Father Suseno, “the problem is that for Muslim fundamentalists Christianity has to go. It is true that some people have converted to Christianity, but they are just a handful. I am just dismayed that the evangelisation boogeyman is being used and abused by some Muslims to justify anti-Christian violence.”
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