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House Slights Supreme Court Order on GKI Yasmin Church
Markus Junianto Sihaloho | February 08, 2012

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Valkyrie
10:50am Feb 10, 2012

Who then has the authority to dismiss regional leaders?


DrDez
10:02am Feb 10, 2012

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono cannot directly interfere in the dispute between the GKI Taman Yasmin Protestant church congregation and the Bogor city administration as it is beyond his authority, his spokesman Julian Aldrin Pasha says.

“Even though the President holds the highest authority, the 2004 Regional Administration Law does not allow the President to interfere with the authority of a regional leader, nor could he dismiss the leader,” Julian said on Monday as quoted by tempo.co.

He added that Yudhoyono had asked Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto to comply with the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that guaranteed the congregation’s right to hold services at the church.

Reported in Tempo

Ergo - SBY has washed his hands of the affair.


Valkyrie
11:42am Feb 9, 2012

Masmon2....

Hmmm...maybe he had a Penectomy done on him?

Anyway, this will provide more "hate juice" for the radicals.

KampungHighlander
11:07am Feb 9, 2012

First they came for the communists,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews,

and I didn't speak out because I wasn't a Jew.

Then they came for the Catholics,

and I didn't speak out because I was Protestant.

Then they came for me

and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Martin Niemoller

sj3al1
8:05am Feb 9, 2012

Unfortunately, this is exactly as expected.

Twisting the truth, bending over for the fascist and securing their financial future is the only thing these lawbreakers are good at, besides putting both hands into the cookie jar.

Don't expect anything from SBY he screems first to bend in front of generals.

What a sad day, expect mass killings soon.. backed by the Ridiculous Indonesian government!


Islamist parties demanded on Wednesday that the government ignore a Supreme Court ruling to unseal the GKI Yasmin church in Bogor, forcing the legislature to water down its already irresolute recommendation on ending the long-running dispute.

At a meeting with government officials to discuss the impasse over the beleaguered GKI Yasmin congregation, lawmakers from the United Development Party (PPP) and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) argued that the final recommendation should not cite the Supreme Court’s order to reinstate the church’s permit.

Stripped of that clause, the legislature’s recommendation contained no actionable steps, merely reiterating a call for the Bogor administration and the central government to “immediately resolve” the dispute that has forced the church’s congregation to hold services on the street or in parishioners’ homes since 2008.

Hazrul Azwar, the PPP chairman at the House of Representatives, insisted it would be unfair to include the Supreme Court’s ruling and omit another from the Bogor District Court, which ordered the revocation of the church’s permit for alleged administrative violations.

“If the Supreme Court ruling is cited, then so, too, should the Bogor District Court ruling,” Hazrul said.

The objection was protested by several legislators including Aziz Syamsuddin from the Golkar Party, who pointed out that the Supreme Court ruling carries more weight than that of any lower court.

Golkar lawmakers Agun Gunanjar Sudarsa and Basuki Tjahaja Purnama also said the higher ruling went along with the nation’s pluralist ideals, but Hazrul said all parties had agreed earlier not to touch on that point.

“We already agreed earlier during the lobbying that no one would bring up the Supreme Court ruling,” Hazrul protested. “So why is it now being included in the recommendation?”

In the end, House Deputy Speaker Pramono Anung, who chaired the meeting, said no mention of the ruling would be made in the final recommendation.

The Supreme Court ruling, issued in 2010, should have ended discrimination against the church, but Bogor Mayor Diani Budiarto has refused to comply.

Representatives from the church were also barred from participating in the meeting on Wednesday, instead being banished to the spectators’ gallery.

The meeting, Pramono said, was between the House and the government, and it was not open to those involved in the dispute.

Bona Sigalingging, a spokesman for the congregation, said he was disappointed with the proceedings.

“We’ve been summoned to attend this meeting three times before, but each time it was canceled,” he said. “Now that it’s finally happening, we’ve been sent away.”

Among those at the meeting was Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi, who claimed he and Diani “respect the Supreme Court’s ruling.”