Religious identification

Religious identification

From Kompas

It is appropriate to abolish the religious identification of
an individual on their identity card. There are at least two
things to be gained from this. First, the term agama KTP (meaning
one is not really practicing the religion mentioned in the ID)
would no longer be heard in the community. Second, the identity
card would not be used as a means of discriminating against other
people. It would be much nicer if an identity card merely offered
proof of Indonesian nationality instead of becoming a means of
separating one group from the other based on their religious
beliefs.

If knowing the religion of someone is required for statistics
purposes, this information should only be kept in the village
office files.

IKWANDI

Indragiri Hilir