Looking for a Safe Haven
Local residents forced Harun Ahmadi and Inaq Mahrar to leave town, just because they are Ahmadiyah followers. They are now seeking political asylum.
February 14, 2006
THE face of Inaq Mahrar, 51, still looks deathly pale. Her eyes bloodshot from lack of sleep, she feebly reclines on a stack of mats on planks lined up at the transit dormitory, at the West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) Office of Transmigration, located on Jalan Pariwisata, Mataram. Inaq Mahrar, who was just forced out of her home, stays here with 165 members of the Lombok branch of the Ahmadiyah sect.
Before ending up in the transmigration office, Mahrar w
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