IN Indonesia, adherents of the Bahai Faith are estimated at 5,000. Of the total, 200 are listed in Jakarta. “The rest are spread over various regions,” said Sheila Soraya, Deputy of the Bahai National Spiritual Assembly.

Soraya admitted the small number of Bahai believers. Bahai has no concept of propagation. “Actually Bahai is not aggressively building a new following,” she said. According to her, Bahai’s teachings even maintain that