Special to Morning Star News
JAKARTA, Indonesia,
October 16 (Morning Star News) – A church in Bogor, West Java is
snubbing a ministerial decree that, because of Islamic opposition, it
must relocate.
The
Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) in the Yasmin Park area of Bogor, 60
kilometers (38 miles) south of Jakarta, is demanding that the national
and local governments comply with a Supreme Court ruling calling for the
revocation of its permit to be reinstated.
Thomas
Wadura, head of the GKI Yasmin elder board, stated that the church
firmly rejected the ministerial decree. Both the local and central
government must carry out the ruling by the Supreme Court and the
mandatory recommendation of the federal Ombudsman to allow the GKI
Yasmin Church to worship in its own building, Wadura said.