Rebuild not Retaliate

A message forwarded on WhatsApp appeared on Alfatih Timur's cellphone, two weeks ago. It was an appeal from the Indonesian Red Crescent to help the victims of the recent rioting at Papua's Karubaga district of Tolikara regency.

Alfatih, the 24-year-old manager of kitabisa.coma social fundraising websitewas moved, and shared it with another website manager, Vikra Ijaz. After some discussion, the two agreed to get help for Tolikara. "We must do fundraising," he said last week. They agreed that funds were needed to rebuild the mosque which burned down in the rioting.

July 28, 2015