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Indonesia Vows to Maintain Religious Pluralism
A Reuters report says Indonesia stands by religious pluralism, and radical Islamists are a small minority in the world's most populous Muslim nation, presidential spokesman and adviser Andi Mallarangeng said Wednesday.
In recent years Indonesia has suffered from a series of deadly attacks on Western targets blamed on Islamic militants, while an increasing number of local and regional rules and regulations have been passed that are in line with Sharia, or Islamic law.
But Mallarangeng, speaking to foreign correspondents and diplomats on a panel about President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's first two years in office, said most Indonesian Muslims rejected the more extreme versions of the faith. "Indonesian Islam is not like that," he said.
He also said election trends as well as recent polls suggest support for political parties who want to make Indonesia an Islamic state is dropping.
Indonesia Vows to Maintain Religious Pluralism
A Reuters report says Indonesia stands by religious pluralism, and radical Islamists are a small minority in the world's most populous Muslim nation, presidential spokesman and adviser Andi Mallarangeng said Wednesday.
In recent years Indonesia has suffered from a series of deadly attacks on Western targets blamed on Islamic militants, while an increasing number of local and regional rules and regulations have been passed that are in line with Sharia, or Islamic law.
But Mallarangeng, speaking to foreign correspondents and diplomats on a panel about President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's first two years in office, said most Indonesian Muslims rejected the more extreme versions of the faith. "Indonesian Islam is not like that," he said.
He also said election trends as well as recent polls suggest support for political parties who want to make Indonesia an Islamic state is dropping.