Indonesias Forgotten Minority
May 16, 2006
David Jardine
THE struggle for the religious soul of Indonesia is intense, the evidence coming in the ideological battles between Muslim fundamentalists of various stripes and more progressive co-believers and, more ruinously, in the bloody communal violence in Ambon and Central Sulawesi involving Muslims and Christians. The state, which ought to take a clear stand on such matters if only for reasons of national unity