{"id":1503,"date":"2020-01-02T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2020-01-02T08:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T08:00:05","slug":"indonesian-muslims-protest-chinas-treatment-of-uighurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/akademiye.org\/en\/?p=1503","title":{"rendered":"Indonesian Muslims protest China\u2019s treatment of Uighurs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Muslim protesters rally outside China’s embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, Dec. 21, 2018. Several hundred protesters chanted “God is Great” and “Get out, communist!” outside China’s embassy in the Indonesian capital, demanding an end to mass detentions of Uighur Muslims. (AP Photo\/ Achmad Ibrahim)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

BY\u00a0DENIS BEDOYA<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>ON\u00a0DECEMBER 31, 2019<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

JAKARTA, Indonesia \u2013 More than a thousand Muslims marched to the heavily guarded Chinese Embassy in Indonesia\u2019s capital on Friday to protest China\u2019s treatment of its Uighur Muslims.<\/p>\n

The protesters, many wearing blue headbands reading \u201cSave Uighurs,\u201d chanted \u201cGet out, China!\u201d and unfurled Indonesian and Uighur flags as they marched to the embassy in downtown Jakarta.<\/p>\n

In a speech, Yusuf Martak, a protest organizer, condemned the \u201coppression, torture and cruelty by the Chinese Communist government against brother Uighur Muslims.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Martak, a leader of a conservative Muslim alliance that held mass protests against Jakarta\u2019s ethnic Chinese governor, a minority Christian, in 2016, demanded an end to mass detentions of Uighur Muslims in China\u2019s Xinjiang region.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe Muslims oppose all forms of colonialism and oppression of Uighurs,\u201d said another speaker, Slamet Ma\u00e1rif, standing on the top of a truck. The crowd chanted \u201cGet out, Communists!\u201d as some waved banners saying \u201cWe stand with Uighurs.\u201d<\/p>\n

He called on the Indonesian government to take action to help the Uighurs.<\/p>\n

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The protesters performed afternoon prayers outside the embassy before dispersing.<\/p>\n

Human rights organizations say up to 1 million ethnic Muslims in Xinjiang have been detained in camps where they are subjected to political indoctrination and pressured to give up their religion.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press reported last year that some are forced to work in factories, and tracked clothing made in one camp to an American sportswear company.<\/p>\n

China describes the sites as vocational training centers necessary to fight radicalism in the restive province, and says the trainees work voluntarily.<\/p>\n

Indonesian security minister Mohammad Mahfud MD on Thursday said the government summoned Chinese Ambassador Xiao Qian to explain the alleged abuses in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n

He said Xiao asserted that China is committed to the protection of human rights and freedom of religion.<\/p>\n

Indonesia, the world\u2019s most populous Muslim nation, is reluctant to publicly criticize Beijing, fearing it could jeopardize Chinese investment or invite retaliatory Chinese support for separatists in Indonesia\u2019s predominantly Christian Papua region where a pro-independence insurgency has simmered since the 1960s.<\/p>\n

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