In Indonesia, Chinese Deity Is Covered in Sheet After Muslims Protest
PHILIPPINES South China Sea BRUNEI Pacific Ocean MALAYSIA Celebes Sea EQUATOR Java Sea Tuban INDONESIA Jakarta EAST TIMOR Indian Ocean 1,000 Miles
AUSTRALIA PHILIPPINES BRUNEI MALAYSIA Celebes Sea EQUATOR INDONESIA Tuban Java Sea Jakarta Indian Ocean 1,000 Miles AUSTRALIA AUG. 10, 2017
Aan Anshori said that Anti-Chinese sentiment has become quite strong
10, 2017
HONG KONG — A 100-foot statue depicting a Chinese deity was covered with an enormous sheet this past weekend in East Java Province,
Indonesia, after Muslims threatened to tear the colossus down amid mounting ethnic and religious tensions across the country.
The Islamist campaign against the statue, a depiction of the third-century general Guan Yu, who is worshiped as a god in several Chinese religions, began online
and soon spread to the gates of a Chinese Confucian temple in Tuban, near the Java Sea coast, where the figure was erected last month.
On social media, Muslims assailed the statue as an "uncivilized" affront to Islam
and the island’s "home people," and a mob gathered this week outside the East Java legislature in the city of Surabaya to demand its destruction.
Muslims organized that They say that it is showing that China is dominating Indonesia.
Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation,
and ethnic Chinese — largely Christian, Buddhist or Confucian — make up less than 5 percent of the overall population.