INDONESIA: GKI Taman Yasmin congregation face continued pressure

On Sunday 29 January 2012, hundreds of members from GKI Taman Yasmin church in Bogor, West Java, staged a peaceful protest in front of the State Palace amid pouring rain. They were demanding that President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono address the continued discrimination and intimidation against the church’s congregation.

“We came here so that the highest leader would help settle this problem, for the sake of the supremacy of law and preservation of diversity in Indonesia,” said GKI Yasmin spokesperson Bona Sigalingging.

The Bogor City administration, citing permit application problems, has barred the GKI Yasmin congregation from conducting religious services for more than two years, defying a 2010 Supreme Court ruling guaranteeing the congregation’s right to hold services at its church building.
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