A polling organized by "Republika On-Line" had an interesting

A polling organized by "Republika On-Line" had an interesting
result. Some 62.9 percent of 3,333 respondents supported the
immediate endorsement of the bill on education. Some 38.6 percent
rejected it, and the rest, 0.5 percent, entrusted the issue to
the House of Representatives.

The growing support for the bill indicates that most people
continue to hope for an educational system that would accommodate
religious teaching based on human rights principles.

Amid the debate on the bill, the House and the government must
demonstrate their wisdom, especially on the crucial Article 12 on
religious teaching.

We call on the House to endorse the bill immediately into a
law, and maintain Article 12, because deleting the article means
we are allowing human rights violations to occur to our Muslim
students.

If the education law does not contain any article on religion,
ours will be a secular constitution. If this happens, the school
will only produce smart graduates who do not have a strong
religious background.

This will pose a great threat to the country's religious life.
If Article 12 is deleted, it would be our turn to refuse the
bill. -- Republika, Jakarta