WITHIN 11 months of his tenure as regent of Bantul in Yogyakarta, Suharsono has faced three incidents of intolerance. Last July, a group of people asked him to close down the Saman Indonesian Baptist Church (GBI-Saman) in Semon subdistrict. Three months later, the same group demanded that his administration demolish the statue of Jesus at the Santo Yakobus Alfeus Church in the Pajangan subdistrict.

This month, still the same group staged a demonst