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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Weekend Edition Australia China India Indonesia Japan Malaysia Philippines Thailand Vietnam Embattled Indonesian Christians seek protection AFP - Monday, December 13 Send IM Story Print Embattled Indonesian Christians seek protection JAKARTA (AFP) - – Indonesian Christians appealed to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for protection on Monday after Muslim vigilante groups, backed by police, surrounded their homes and forced them to leave. More than 100 members of the Batak Christian Protestant Church (HKBP) were forced to evacuate seven houses in Rancaekek Wetan village outside Jakarta on Sunday as Muslims staged angry protests over unauthorised religious services. The Christians say they have been forced to hold services inside their homes because the local government has repeatedly knocked back and ignored requests to approve a church or authorise another venue for their place of worship. The protesters included members of violent Islamist vigilante groups that have close ties to the security forces in the Muslim-majority country. "The situation was quite tense yesterday. If we didn't ask them (the Christians) to leave, there would have been bad consequences. We tried to avoid any destruction or physical attacks," local police chief Hendro Pandowo said. "They don't have any permit to use the houses as places of worship. We can't arrest (the Muslims) as they got a permit to hold the protest." He added: "If the place was legally designated as a church, we'd provide security protection. Otherwise, we can't do much as it's against the law." HKBP Reverend Hutagalung said the Christians would continue to worship in their houses and urged Yudhoyono to uphold religious freedoms enshrined in the country's constitution. "We'll continue to worship there whatever the consequences," he told AFP. "We want President Yudhoyono to give us a guarantee that we'll be able to practise our faith freely without any intimidation from other groups." Sunday's incident is the latest in a series of confrontations between Protestants and Muslims in the Bandung and Bekasi areas near Jakarta in recent months, including the stabbing and beating up of church leaders. The unresolved tensions -- and Yudhoyono's failure to rein in violent extremist groups -- have undermined the country's reputation for tolerance, which US President Barack Obama held up as "Indonesias example to the world" during a visit in October. Police last week said they were on alert for terrorist attacks against Christians over the Christmas period. The warning came after a crude homemade bomb exploded without causing any harm at a church near Solo in central Java on Tuesday and another unexploded device was found at a church in the same area a week earlier. Although the constitution gives an equal footing to six state religions including Protestantism, laws make it difficult for faiths other than Islam to establish houses of worship. Rights groups say religious intolerance is on the rise in Indonesia, which has the world's biggest Muslim majority, citing the persecution of the minority Muslim Ahmadiyah sect and the torching and damaging of churches. "Hard-line groups, it seems, have been given free rein to take the law into their own hands," the Jakarta Globe English-language daily complained in an editorial, warning that religious conflicts risked getting "out of hand". 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