Religious freedom in Indonesia

Officially the Republic of Indonesia, a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania. Situated between the Indian and Pacific oceans, it is the world's largest island country, with more than thirteen thousand islands.
== Background ==
Indonesia is constitutionally a secular state and the first principle of Indonesia's philosophical foundation, Pancasila, is "belief in the one and only God". A number of different religions are practiced in the country, and their collective influence on the country's political, economic and cultural life is significant. The Indonesian Constitution guarantees freedom of religion. The government recognises only six official religions (Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism). Although based on data collected by the Indonesian Conference on Religion and Peace (ICRP), there are about 245 non-official religions in Indonesia.
Indonesian law requires that every Indonesian citizen hold an identity card that identifies that person with one of these six religions. Legally, citizens are able to leave that section blank. Indonesia does not recognise agnosticism or atheism, and blasphemy is illegal. In the 2010 Indonesian census, 87.18% of Indonesians identified themselves as Muslim (with Sunnis more than 99%, Shias 0.5%, Ahmadis 0.2%), 6.96% Protestant, 2.91% Catholic, 1.69% Hindu, 0.72% Buddhist, 0.05% Confucianism, 0.13% other, and 0.38% unstated or not asked.
== 2018 Heresy App ==
In Nov 2018, a new Indonesian government app that lets the public report suspected cases of religious heresy is drawing fire as rights groups warn it could aggravate persecution of minorities in the world’s biggest Muslim-majority nation. The Malaysian Insider - Indonesia's new heresy app draws fire
Users of the app can report groups practising unrecognised faiths or unorthodox interpretations of Indonesia’s six officially recognised religions, including Islam, Hinduism, Christianity and Buddhism.
== Only six religions==
The first major problem with religious freedom in Indonesia, is that it only recognizes six religions.
== Radical Islam ==
Another major threat to religious freedom in Indonesia is the prevalence of Radical Islam in the country.
== Intolerant religion ==
In the Indonesia it is permissible for a state religion to persecute their neighbors:
# Mosque Loudspeakers - On 21-Aug-2018, a Buddhists woman (age 44) was convicted in court and sentenced to 1.5 years in prison for Blasphemy. Her crime - she complained that the daily call to prayer from the mosque next door was too loud and "hurting her ears".Buddhist woman imprisoned for complaining about mosque's speaker - JakartaPost.com Her remark, made in 2016, is believed to have triggered the worst anti-Chinese riot in the country since 1998, with Muslims who claimed to have been offended by her words burning several Buddhist temples. During the riot, the angry mob destroyed prayer equipment, Buddha statues, tables, chairs, lamps and several cars and motorbikes, the police said….
==References==
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