http://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/03/asia/jakarta-islamist-governor-protest/Late on Friday, dozens of protesters attacked police near the Presidential Palace as officers shot tear gas and water cannons overhead. The protesters called for Ahok's death, shouting "kill Ahok" and "kill Ahok for insulting Islam." Some also carried placards demanding his execution.
Earlier in the day, police estimated 200,000 people marched from Istiqlal Mosque in Central Jakarta to the Presidential palace. The march was largely peaceful.
"peace" in Islam means you should be executed.
In a press conference held after the clashes, President Joko Widodo -- also known as Jokowi -- promised legal actions against Ahok and demanded protesters to "go back to their home where they came from, orderly."
This is the "blasphemy claims":
In a campaign speech, Ahok told Indonesians that the religious verse did not prohibit them from voting for a non-Muslim. His interpretation of the text is what elicited protests and charges of blasphemy.
Just a reminder that all public schools in Indonesia are pretty much madrasah now, and they only teach Islam. Muslims have insulted other religions in Indonesia so many times already and nothing happened.
"Pluralist politicians, like President Jokowi, were silent," Jones wrote at the beginning of November.
"No one said, 'Let's stop this in it tracks.' Neither the President nor Vice-President did anything to try to cool tempers."
This is a "moderate muslim":
Former president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, whose son is running against Ahok, made a speech two days ago calling for the governor to be prosecuted to placate the Islamist opposition and quell the protests.
Some interesting discussion on /r/indonesia subreddit, just to see other people's opinions about this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/indonesia/comments/5amsm7/mega_thread_demo_fpi_4_november/https://www.reddit.com/r/indonesia/comments/5b8yuy/why_ahok_quoting_almaidah_is_uncalled_for_my_50/https://www.reddit.com/r/indonesia/comments/5b7pav/one_man_does_wrong_and_its_the_whole_race_and/https://www.reddit.com/r/indonesia/comments/5bdn8e/mega_thread_aftermath_of_411_demonstration/This one is good with opinions from Chinese Indonesians:
https://www.reddit.com/r/indonesia/comments/5b888c/the_anger_is_real/But I disagree with most of them. Why the fuck are we okay with being killed?
All I can say to you guys is 98 has long passed, don't let today reset all the progress we've made. It took years to fix something like this on social level. Proving who is wrong or right on reddit won't make things better any sooner.
It's things like this that makes me angry. Nothing was fixed. On 98, people were killed and women were raped en-masse, and nothing was done to anyone. Prabowo, which was the suspect almost won Presidential candidate 4 years ago. Nothing was fixed. Nothing.
Nobody should be okay with this. It hasn't passed. It just happened again.
Blind optimism kills. If you are okay with being killed and you do nothing to stop it (=apathy) then don't be surprised when they come to your house and burn it down.
One of those times when I'm so glad that I'm not in Indonesia anymore. The most peaceful country on earth
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