Happy Ascension Day! But Don’t Forget Tambun Terror!

It’s Ascension Day, a public holiday here in Indonesia, and I’m waiting for a welcome visitor.

The sun is shining outdoors, and I hope my Indonesian readers of all creeds enjoy their day off work.

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DON’T FORGET the Christians of Tambun, Bekasi, West Java, who are still unable to worship in peace at their own church, whence they were driven six years ago by filthy savages who pelted them with bags of urine and faeces…

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Pastor Palti

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“They assaulted the congregation members,” Rev. Palti Panjaitan told the Jakarta Globe on Thursday. “Police tried to talk to them, but the mob passed through police and showered us with urine and dirty water. Others threw stones at us.”
The mob reportedly attacked the congregation as the service started, and also shouted profanity and threats.

“Even after the service, which lasted one-and-a-half hours, the mob chased after us,” Rev. Palti said.

Christ’s Ascension Day – Islamist Savages Pelt Congregation With Sewage, Urine and Rocks 

…and who STILL, all these years later, worship in the street, across the road from President Jokowi’s Palace here in Jakarta.

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Still There! Oppressed Christians Swelter In Jakarta! 

So they will be in town today, or maybe Sunday, and while we we relax or gallivant, let’s not forget them.

 

Xmas On Street For Victims of Indonesia’s Islamists

Even a God-awful newspaper can sometimes do something good.

That was my reaction when I saw that the Jakarta Post had reported on the Sunday service opposite President Jokowi’s Palace downtown, held by two congregations that have suffered and are still suffering persecution by the nastiest Islamist bigots in the land.

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Churches hold public service as reminder of their struggle

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2016/08/14/churches-hold-public-service-as-reminder-of-their-struggle.html

Mind you, as far as I know, these oppressed Christians hold such protest services every second Sunday, so while the JP’s interest is welcome, it’s a pity they don’t report on the shameful state of affairs on a twice-monthly basis.  

That report at the top of our page was published way back, several months ago. The oppressed Christians were there again today – I was in town but saw no sign of them, only to get home at 1.30pm and see on the internet that they planned a 2pm kick-off. 

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The churches concerned, GKI Yasmin and HKBP Filadelfia, are denied access to their places of worship by a combination of brutal fanatic gangs and local governments which either lack the guts to stand up for religious liberty or are in cahoots with the vilest jihadist elements.

Bekasi’s Islamist Regime – ‘We Won’t Allow Religious Liberty If Bigot Thugs Object!’ 

That report concerns Bekasi, one such local authority, but another, Bogor, also in West Java, right next door to Jakarta, has recently shown its continuing contempt for civil and religious liberty…  

Bigoted Bogor – City Seeks IslamoNazi Link-Up! 

…and its mayor, once described, in all seriousness, as a ‘moderate’ Muslim, has shown himself every bit as coldly indifferent to the rights of these poor Christians as his avowedly Islamist predecessor who kicked off their oppression years ago.

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 Bogor Mayor Bima Arya

X-Rated Xmas – Foul-Mouths Bully Christians, As ‘Moderate’Mayor Denies They Exist!’ 

As for the other church, HKBP in Tambun, our reports on what they’ve had to go through in recent years are horrific to read.

Christ’s Ascension Day – Islamist Savages Pelt Congregation With Sewage, Urine and Rocks 

Nor was that the only occasion these peaceful Protestants faced that sort of stinking barrage from a stinking rabble!

• Head-Scarfed Harpies Hurl Dung and Urine at Christians 

• But while IslamoNazi thugs and benighted local local bigwigs are deplorable, what’s most distressing, perhaps, is the national government’s failure to enforce the law – in GKI Yasmin’s case, a ruling from the highest court in the archipelago.
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• President SBY’s indifference to their plight was perhaps unsurprising, but I’m sure everyone who voted for Jokowi believed he was genuinely committed to the religious pluralism which was bequeathed to Indonesia by the nation’s founding fathers.
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• Alas, as the JP report reminds us, he has not ordered the police to take the side of justice, instead of, at best, choosing to act as an umpire between the persecuted and their persecutors – and that’s at best; in Bekasi, the cops have shown shocking attitudes…
• Cops Stop West Java Worship, Appease Islamist Louts Christians Abused by Islamist Mob, Cops Fail to Enforce the Law ‘Off With His Head!’ – Jakarta Cops – No Sweat on Murder Threat! 
• …and after the recent outbreaks of Islamist evil in other parts of the archipelago –Tanjung Balai’s Burning Temples – A History of Bigotry!   – a lot of people must be wondering what, if any, steps the President is planning to take to redeem Indonesia’s reputation.
• The very least he could have done today was walk across the street from his Palace and take the seat always reserved for him by these heroic congregants.

Kenapa, Pak Presiden? GKI Yasmin Masih Disegel!

I haven’t been to Monas Square for a while, not sung a hymn since Easter! 

Easter in Jakarta – No ‘Islamophobia’ Among Persecuted Christians! 

 Yesterday I went way down south, to Pejaten Village Mall, a pleasant outing, to meet up, one after the other, with a young friend and an older one.

Always good to keep in touch.

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First weekend in June – Jokowi’s Palace in the background, as victims of intolerance are forced to worship on the public street

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But this very weekend, back up  by Monas, across the road from President Jokowi’s Palace, I’m told the persecuted Christians were once more at worship out in the hot sun, the GKI congregation from Bogor still barred by nasty Islamist bigots from their church – and the HKBP church from Tambun, Bekasi, in a similar plight.   

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There is ABSOLUTELY no excuse for this. We’ve reported again and again on the Supreme Court ruling which neither President SBY nor his successor, Jokowi, have seen fit to enforce.

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So many Indonesian friends of freedom, of every creed,  rejoiced when Jokowi won that close election.

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They believed his commitment to religious liberty would result in the police being ordered in, not, as before, to act as referees between those Christians and the sectarian louts who hate them, but to fulfil their duty and open up the church for its congregation to enter and worship freely.

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 Lily Wahid, a Muslim champion of freedom

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Instead the thug gangs, GARIS etc, against whom brave Muslims like old Lily Wahid stood up despite crass intimidation, appear to have got their way. The self-styled ‘pluralist’ Mayor who replaced the overtly bigoted mayor in Bogor, is playing the same game, even denying the existence of the Yasmin congregation.

X-Rated Xmas – Foul-Mouths Bully Christians, As ‘Moderate’Mayor Denies They Exist!’ 

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Will Jokowi some Sunday soon come out of his palace, walk across the street and tell these victims of evil that he will have their churches re-opened…or will the darkness continue to spread across Indonesia.