Source/Credit: The Jakarta Post
By TJP | March 7, 2011
Jakarta Governor Fauzi Bowo said on Monday he would not issue a decree banning Ahmadiyah activities in the capital.
He said the decision was based on the instruction of Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Djoko Suyanto
“The minister has issued [the instruction], and it is clear that there can be no bylaw or governor regulation or any kind of regulation in this country that violates the constitution,” Fauzi said as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.
He also said that a joint ministerial decree on Ahmadiyah, issued in 2008, was enough to regulate on order and harmony among Jakartans. Thus, no new regulation was needed.
“It's just that this decree probably needs to be better understood by various stakeholders, including [law enforcers],” he said, adding that his administration would continue raising awareness on the decree.
He highlighted that religious issues were not the authority of provincial governments.
“That authority is with the Religious Affairs Ministry.”
The Jakarta provincial government has previously mulled issuing a decree, or even a bylaw, to ban Ahmadiyah activities in the region. Several local administrations have issued decrees to ban the religious group.
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