{"id":13932,"date":"2014-11-21T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T17:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/?p=13932"},"modified":"2021-02-04T10:19:49","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T15:19:49","slug":"heresy-and-democracy-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/2014\/11\/21\/heresy-and-democracy-in-indonesia\/","title":{"rendered":"Menchik Quoted in DW on Indonesia&#8217;s Blasphemy Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jeremy-menchik\/\"><\/a><a href=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/11\/BBeXKWu.img_.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/11\/BBeXKWu.img_-533x300.jpeg\" alt=\"BBeXKWu.img\" width=\"533\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13935 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/11\/BBeXKWu.img_-533x300.jpeg 533w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/files\/2014\/11\/BBeXKWu.img_.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/profile\/jeremy-menchik\/\">Jeremy Menchik<\/a>, Assistant Professor of International Relations at \u00a0Boston University&#8217;s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, spoke with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/amnesty-slams-indonesias-oppressive-blasphemy-laws\/a-18075486\"><em>Deutsche Welle<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(November 21, 2014) about the democratic implications of prosecuting heresy in Indonesia. The story was picked up in the U.S. by MSN.<\/p>\n<p>An excerpt from the news report in <em>Deutsche Welle<\/em> quoting Prof. Menchik:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But as Southeast Asia expert Jeremy Menchik points out, the increased prosecution of blasphemy-related cases may also be linked to a period of political openness that followed the democratic transition and consolidation.<\/p>\n<p>The analyst explains that under the 32-year-long authoritarian rule of President Suharto, there were many examples of religious blasphemy and heterodoxy, &#8220;but these were either ignored because it was prohibited to openly discuss issues of ethnicity, race, or religion, or they were crushed by the military without receiving national attention.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the rest of the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dw.de\/amnesty-slams-indonesias-oppressive-blasphemy-laws\/a-18075486\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pardee professor Jeremy Menchik discusses the implications of heresy laws in Indonesia with European news outlet Deutsche Welle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8410],"tags":[9961,8379,8448,8472,8459],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13932"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13998,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13932\/revisions\/13998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pardeeschool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}