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Ministerial Decree against JAI 2008

A Joint Decree of the Minister of Religious Affairs, the Attorney General, and the Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Indonesia to Warn and Order the followers, members, and/or leading members of the Indonesian Ahmadiyya Jama’at (JAI) and the General Public
NUMBER : 3 YEAR 2008 
NUMBER : KEP033/A/JA/6/2008 
NUMBER : 199 YEAR 2008 

In the matter of 

A Warning and Order to the followers, members, and/or leading members of the Indonesian Ahmadiyya Jama’at (JAI) and to the General Public

The Minister of Religious Affairs, the Attorney General and the Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Indonesia

[considerations, regards and notes]

HEREBY RESOLVE AND MAKE

A Joint Decree of the Minister of Religious Affairs, the Attorney General, and the Minister of the Interior of the Republic of Indonesia to Warn and Order the followers, members, and/or leading members of the Indonesian Ahmadiyya Jama’at (JAI) and the General Public

 

 FIRST: Members of the public are warned and ordered not to declare, suggest, or attempt to gain public support for an interpretation of a religion that is held in Indonesia, or to conduct religious activities that resemble the religious activities of that religion which are deviant from the principal teachings of that religion.

SECOND: The followers, members, and/or leading members of the Indonesian Ahmadiyya Jama’at (JAI) are warned and ordered, as long as they consider themselves to hold to Islam, to discontinue the promulgation of interpretations and activities that are deviant from the principal teachings of Islam, that is to say the promulgation of beliefs that recognise a prophet with all his teachings who comes after the Prophet Muhammad SAW.

THIRD: Any follower, member, or leading member of the Indonesian Ahmadiyya Jama’at (JAI) who does not comply with this warning and order as specified in the first and second articles shall be liable to penalties as prescribed in regulatory laws and such penalties shall extent to the organisation and legal body.

 

FOURTH: All members of the public are warned and ordered to protect and maintain harmonious religious life as well as peaceful and orderly community life by not conducting unlawful activities and/or actions against the followers, members, and leading members of the Indonesian Ahmadiyya Jama’at (JAI).

FIFTH: Any member of the public who does not comply with this warning and order as specified in the first and fourth articles shall be liable to penalties as prescribed in regulatory laws.

SIXTH: Government and district government officials are ordered to take steps to guide, secure and monitor the implementation of this Joint Decree.

SEVENTH: This Joint Decree comes into effect on the date that it is made.

Made at Jakarta, 
June 9, 2008

MINISTER OF RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS Muhammad M. Basyuni

ATTORNEY GENERAL Hendarman Supandji

MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR  H. Mardiyanto

Full version available at The Persecution, URL: http://www.thepersecution.org/world/indonesia/docs/skb.html

 

 

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