{"id":11414,"date":"2015-11-06T10:21:31","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T10:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.acnmalta.org\/?p=11414"},"modified":"2015-11-06T10:21:31","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T10:21:31","slug":"next-weektension-increases-in-aceh-as-christians-come-under-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acnmalta.org\/_oldsite\/2015\/11\/06\/next-weektension-increases-in-aceh-as-christians-come-under-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Tension increases in Aceh as Christians come under attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>Two churches in Aceh province of Indonesia were deliberately burnt down by a mob of hundreds of Islamist\u00a0radicals. Husein Hamidi, Aceh\u2019s chief of police said \u00a0\u201cAfter burning the church, the crowd\u2014made up mostly of members of the Muslim Youth Forum\u2014tried to attack another but ran into opposition from Christians\u201d. \u00a0A riot erupted when Christians tried to defend their churches, during which one man was killed and four others injured.<\/p>\n<p>After the arson attacks on their churches, thousands of Christians fearing an escalation of violence fled Aceh Singkil regency for neighboring regencies in North Sumatra. Tensions between the majority Muslim population and other religious minorities remain high in Aceh. Several Christian churches are scheduled for demolition by the authorities, ostensibly for not having proper building permits &#8211; which Christians found impossible to obtain after making dozens of planning applications that were ignored. Soldiers have been deployed near churches facing demolition orders to prevent further violence.<\/p>\n<p>Aceh became the only Indonesian province to come under Sharia law (the Islamic legal code) in February 2014 when the Aceh provincial administration approved the\u00a0\u201cQanun Jinaya<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2014\/02\/07\/aceh-fully-enforces-sharia.html\">t<\/a>\u201d that obligies every person in Aceh without exception, \u00a0Muslim and non-Muslim alike, \u00a0to follow Sharia law.<\/p>\n<p>A large part of the local population in Aceh is resisting the strict laws and regulations that were forced on the people, such as banning the celebration of Valentine\u2019s Day, following the imposition of Sharia law. The new rules are particularly strict on women who are no longer allowed to wear jeans or tight skirts, travel astride motorcycles or dance in public. There is even a curfew for women now, which the authorities claim is meant to protect them from sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>ACN ranks the level of Christian persecution in Indonesia as \u201cHIGH\u201d in 2015. The latest ACN Report <strong><em>Persecuted and Forgotten?<\/em><\/strong> notes that the situation in Indonesia from 1013-2015 is worse than it was in 2011-2013. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has also placed Indonesia on its \u201cTier 2\u201d list (countries whose governments engage in or tolerate serious violations of religious liberty) for 2015.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two churches in Aceh province of Indonesia were deliberately burnt down by a mob of hundreds of Islamist\u00a0radicals. 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