The Jakarta Post, 6/10/2004 11:16:29 AM
Petrol bomb hurled at Yogyakarta church
JAKARTA (AFP): A petrol bomb has been hurled at a Roman Catholic church in the
fifth attack this week on a church in Yogyakarta, police said Thursday.
The attack on the Santo Yusuf church in the Sleman district of Yogyakarta city took
place early Wednesday, said a duty officer at a local police station.
He said the attack in the Central Java city caused a small fire which burned part of the
front gate and the fence. No one was hurt.
Mobs attacked four churches in two neighbouring suburbs of the Indonesian capital
Jakarta on Sunday, slightly injuring a priest and causing some damage.
Three of those churches were in buildings in commercial areas that had no permit for
use as places of worship. Such unauthorised churches have come in for attack in the
past.
Indonesia is the world's largest Muslim-populated state, with 88 percent of its 212
million people following Islam. Some eight percent are Christians.
Islam is not the official religion and the constitution provides for freedom of worship.
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