Indonesia passes controversial citizenship law.
Indonesia’s parliament has passed a controversial law requiring citizens to state their faith on official documents despite objections from a major political party, news reports said yesterday.
Kompas newspaper said the civil registration bill required citizens to declare one of the six official religions on their identity cards.
The state recognizes only Islam, Catholicism, Hinduism, Protestanism, Buddhism and Confucianism.
Permadi, a parliamentarian from the Indonesian Democratic Party Struggle ( PDI-P) party who practices a traditional Javanese faith, reportedly said that ” endorsing the bill” would go against the constitution which guaranteed all Indonesians the right to worship.
