On July 10 last year, Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo, better known as Jokowi, signed a special government regulation to amend the 2013 Law on Mass Organisations, ostensibly aimed at ...

Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), forcibly disbanded last year by the Indonesian government, has had its day in court, and it has not ended well. While the challenge was swiftly turfed by the Jakarta ...

Should Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia be banned? Banning the group runs counter to the Constitution, which gives all citizens equal rights, including the right to express faith and belief.

If the the government gets the legal green light then, HTI — which has been around for nearly two decades and could have as many as 3.5 million members — would be the first hard-line Islamist ...

Indonesia’s response to the HTI has been softer than that of other countries, which not only banned the organization but also arrested the leaders. In Indonesia, despite the ban, its leaders are ...

Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia, which has already announced it would challenge the new government regulation in the Constitutional Court, said it would mount a separate legal challenge to the ban.

Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia was abolished by then President Joko Widodo in 2017. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

May 2015: members of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia wave flags during a rally calling for the creation of a caliphate and for sharia to be the law of the land in Jakarta. Credit: AP.

Minister Wiranto announced the decision today. Active in Indonesia since 1980, HTI is involved in clandestine activities to promote the caliphate in the country. It has sparked social conflicts among ...

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) spokesperson Muhammad Ismail Yusanto criticized the democratic system adopted by Indonesia.He aimed his criticism towards the system, which is ...

JAKARTA - The Indonesian government has disbanded the hard-line Islamic group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), the Antara news agency said Monday. Bangkok Post - The world’s window on Thailand.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The top Indonesian security minister said Monday the country's president has ordered the dissolution of a hard-line Islamic group that seeks a global caliphate for ...