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(Rappler) MUI supports government plan to leave religion column on IDs blank

12/12/2018



MUI supports government plan to leave religion column on IDs blank

 

The highly debated move to allow Indonesians to leave the religion column on their identity cards blank has received support from the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), the country's highest Islamic authority. Religious Affairs Minister Lukman Saifuddin has insisted that the religion column needed to be maintained on the ID cards, but said people were free to leave it blank to accommodate those whose beliefs were not among the 6 religions officially recognized by the government. “The most important thing is that they register their names on the database of demographic administration,” he said on Thursday, as quoted by The Jakarta Post. But he discouraged the government from officially recognizing any new religions, according to Detik.com.