The petition asks that the Constitutional Court should amend Articles 1, 2, and 3 of the Blasphemy Law to make them conditional on the guarantee of the constitutional rights of the applicants.
Source/Credit: Coconuts Jakarta
By Coconuts Jakarta | September 12, 2017
Indonesia�s blasphemy law has been severely criticized by both international and local human rights activists who argue that it has been used to persecute and criminalize numerous minority groups within the vast archipelago nation. One of the groups hit hardest by the blasphemy law is the country�s Ahmadiyah community, who follow a sect of Islam that has officially been declared deviant by the government.
Under the auspices of the blasphemy law and other laws ostensibly meant to maintain �religious harmony�, the Ahmadiyah have been systematically discriminated against by the government and their communities have been the targets of numerous violent and sometimes deadly attacks in the last few years.
Recently, the community has become quite proactive in fighting for their legal rights. Yesterday, nine members of Jemaah Ahmadiyah Indonesia, from various regions of the country, came together to file a petition for judicial review against the blasphemy law with the Constitutional Court (MK).
Indonesia: Ahmadiyahs petition Constitutional Court to revise blasphemy law
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