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Indonesia bans Islamic HizbutTahrir organisation

The Indonesian Government issued an order to ban the operation of Hizbut Tahrir, an Islamic organisation that wants to establish a global caliphate, under a new decree of President Joko Widodo.
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Jakarta(VNA) – The Indonesian Government on July 19 issued an order to ban theoperation of Hizbut Tahrir, an Islamic organisation that wants to establish aglobal caliphate, under a new decree of President Joko Widodo.

According toIndonesia’s Ministry of Justice and Human Rights, the disbandment aims toprotect national unity.

The decree signedlast week by President Joko Widodo gives the government almost unfettered powerto ban organisations deemed against the constitution and the official stateideology known as Pancasila.

The measures followmonths of sectarian tensions in the world's most populous Muslim nation thatshook the government and undermined Indonesia's reputation for practicing amoderate form of Islam.

Hizbut Tahrir, alongwith other groups such as the violent Islamic Defenders Front, was thought tostand behind a series of massive protests in Jakarta. Hizbut, already banned orcircumscribed in some countries, is estimated to have tens of thousands ofmembers in Indonesia.-VNA
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