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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 was abolished by then President Joko Widodo in 2017. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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.
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
HTI had operated openly in Indonesia since the fall of Suharto in 1998 and was officially recognized as a civil organization in 2006. The group’s support for an Islamic caliphate provided the ...
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 ...
Wiranto, who goes by one name, announced the action against Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia in a brief meeting with reporters and said it was ordered by President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo.
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