Bibliography 2: #BIB39332

Key	BIB39332
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	“Three Rights Traditions Walk into a Bar in Jakarta” : Inalienable Human Rights from the Perspective of Different Civilizations
Journal	Telos
Author	Shah, Timothy Samuel and Taylor, C. Holland
Year	2023
Date	Summer 2023
Issue	203
Abstract	Many people assume that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 was an exclusively or primarily Western project, imposed on the rest of the world by the European and American powers that emerged victorious from World War II. Harvard Law professor Mary Ann Glendon’s 2001 book, A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, suggests otherwise. It was not the great powers but small powers that pushed hardest for a declaration of rights. And it was often great powers—and one must acknowledge, great powers dominated by people of European ancestry—that did not like the idea of being pushed around by politically and economically weaker inhabitants of the Global South, who were just beginning to emerge from centuries of Western colonialism and other forms of oppression. "In July of 2021, Indonesia’s minister of religious affairs responded to harsh Islamist criticism of a video address—in which he had warmly conveyed a New Year’s greeting to Indonesia’s miniscule Baha’i minority—by affirming that every Indonesian citizen has a constitutional right to religious freedom and to practice the teachings of his or her faith. A government regulation dating from the mid-1960s provides official recognition to only six religious communities in Indonesia: Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Roman Catholicism, Protestantism, and Confucianism. Muslim extremists were swift to condemn the minister of religious affairs—the Honorable Yaqut Cholil Qoumas, scion of a prominent Nahdlatul Ulama family—for acknowledging and greeting members of Indonesia’s Baha’i community. Despite the viral nature of the controversy that exploded in print, broadcast, and social media, the minister did not apologize for his action. Demonstrating the strength of his convictions, and widespread popular support for his position, Minister Qoumas simply instructed officials within his ministry to explain the constitutional, legal, and regulatory framework that guarantees freedom of conscience to every Indonesian...." "Thus, according to the Indonesian constitution, laws and regulations referenced above, Baha’is and adherents of other faiths, including Sikhism, Taoism, Judaism, [and indigenous religions such as] Aluktodolo, Merapu, Sunda Wiwitan, and others, have the right to live freely in Indonesia."
Notes	Bahá'í Faith in Indonesia: pp. 84-85.
Language	English
Keywords	UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMAN RIGHTS; INDONESIA
DOI	doi:10.3817/0623203078
Pages	78–98
Legal note	11.
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