A German-born woman is running for parliament in Indonesia. Petra Odebrecht has lived in Indonesia for 20 years and wants to represent the resort island of Bali. The 42-year-old, blue-eyed blond from Hamburg called the world’s third-largest democracy “a work in progress.” When Odebrecht recently visited a factory, workers asked her for money, the candidate…
The governments of Italy and Indonesia along with an Italian Catholic lay organization held a cultural conference on Islam and coexistence in Rome this past Wednesday. Musurifun Lakawa, a counselor at the Indonesian embassy said that the conference was expected to create dialogue between Italian experts and Indonesian Muslim organizations. The conference was divided into…
Indonesia, the world`s largest Moslem country, considers the pro-Koln group`s plan to hold an anti-Islam congress in Cologne, Germany, on Sept 19-20 to be counterproductive to interfaith dialogs, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. “Any plan to organize an anti-Islam congress would be counter-productive to interfaith dialogs which also involve European nations,” Teuku Faizasyah said on…
Internet companies in Indonesia blocked access to YouTube and Myspace on Tuesday, heeding a government order aimed to stop people from watching a film critical of Islam and the Quran. The Indonesian ministry ordered internet service providers to block sites where Wilders’ film appears, stating that it could disturb relations between the faiths. The internet…
Governments and citizens of Muslim countries throughout the world have voiced condemnation of the anti-Quran film made by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders. In Indonesia, President Susilo Bambang said Wilders would be barred from entering the archipelago of islands that make up the country. In Pakistan, several thousand took to the streets of Karachi to protest…
