Indonesia, home to the world’s largest Muslim population, announced on 17 December the deployment of 192,000 security personnel to safeguard Christians , and other minorities, during the Christmas period – a heightened time of risk for Islamic extremist attacks. Authorities on the south-east Asian archipelago, where Christians make up at least 15% of the population, are posting police officers and navy personnel across the country, including the predominantly Christian provinces of Papua and West Papua, to secure celebrations held over Christmas and also on New Year’s Eve (the latter is often wrongly perceived in non-Western countries as a Christian festival). The entrance to one of the three churches targeted by Islamic suicide bombers in Surabaya, on the island of Java, in May 2018, that killed 13 people The force is larger than the 167,000 personnel deployed last year. A […]
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