| date |
event |
locations |
tags |
see also |
| 1888 (In the year) |
Jamál Effendi, accompanied by Hájí Faraju'lláh-i-Tafrishí, embarked on a long journey to the East visiting Burma, Java (Indonesia), Siam (Thailand), Singapore, Kashmir, Tibet, Yarqand, Khuqand in Chinese Turkistan, and Afghanistan. [EB123–4; PH22] |
Myanmar (Burma); Java; Indonesia; Siam (Thailand); Thailand; Singapore; Kashmir; India; Tibet; Yarqand; Khuqand; Chinese Turkistan; China; Afghanistan |
Jamal Effendi; Haji Farajullah-i-Tafrishi |
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| 1914 Spring |
Laura and Hippolyte Dreyfus Barney started their teaching trip to China and French Indonesia. They visited the German colony of Qingdao, China with a plan to travel up the Yangzi river (and overland) to Kunming, Yunnan Province. However due to the outbreak of the first world war they returned to Europe, escaping from Qingdao thanks to Hippolyte’s adroitness. They returned to France in time for him to assume his military obligations.
[Iranica] |
China; French Indonesia |
Laura Clifford Barney; Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney |
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| 1951. (In the year) |
Khadaram and Parvin Payman were the first pioneers in Indonesia. [PH62] |
Indonesia |
Khadaram Payman; Parvin Payman |
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| 1953 Oct |
Elly Becking arrived in Dutch New Guinea and was named a Knight of Bahá’u’lláh. [BW13:451] |
Dutch New Guinea; Indonesia |
Knights of Bahaullah |
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| 1954 Feb |
Rahmatu’lláh and Írán Muhájir arrived in Mentawai Islands and were named Knights of Bahá’u‘lláh. [BW13:454]
For the story of their pioneering activity see Muhájir, Dr Muhajir, Hand of the Cause of God, Knight of Bahá’u’lláh. |
Mentawai Islands; Indonesia |
Rahmatullah Muhajir; Iran Muhajir; Knights of Bahaullah; Islands |
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| 1954 Feb |
Rahmatu'lláh Muhájir and Irán Muhájir arrived the Mentawai Islands and received the accolade "Knight of Bahá'u'lláh".[BS13p454] |
Mentawai Islands; Indonesia |
Knights of Bahaullah; Hand of the Cause |
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| 1957 Ridván |
The Regional Spiritual Assembly of South East Asia was formed with its seat in Djakarta. [BW13:289,302]
Its area of jurisdiction was Borneo, Indo-China, Indonesia, Malaya, Sarawak, Siam, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Philippines, Dutch New Guinea, Mentawai Islands, Cocos Islands, Portuguese Timor and Brunei.
A subsidiary Six-Year Plan was formed. [BW13:302]
This assembly was dissolved in 1964. [BW14p99] |
Djakarta; Indonesia |
National Spiritual Assembly, formation |
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| 1957 Oct |
Shoghi Effendi called for the convocation of a series of Intercontinental Conferences to be held successively in Kampala, Uganda (Regional Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Central and East Africa); Sydney, Australia (National Spiritual Assembly of the
Bahá'ís of Australia); Chicago, United States (National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of the United States of America,; Frankfurt, Germany (National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Germany and: Austria); and Djakarta, Indonesia (Regional Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of South-East Asia). [BW13:311–12; MBW125]
The five-fold purpose of the International Conferences was:
- offering
humble thanksgiving to the
Divine Author of our Faith, Who has
graciously enabled His followers,
during a period of deepening anxiety
and amidst the confusion and
uncertainties of a critical phase in
the fortunes of mankind,
- to prosecute
uninterruptedly the Ten-Year
Plan formulated for the execution of
the Grand Design conceived by 'Abdu'l-Bahá,
- of reviewing and celebrating
the series of signal victories
won so rapidly in the course of each
of the campaigns of this world-encircling
Crusade,
- of deliberating on
ways and means that will insure its
triumphant consummation,
- and of
lending simultaneously a powerful
impetus, the world over, to the vital
process of individual conversion -the
preeminent purpose underlying
the Plan in all its ramifications -
and to the construction and completion
of the three Mother Temples
to be built in the European, the
African, and Australian continents. [CBN No 94 Nov 1957 p1]
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BWC; Kampala; Uganda; Sydney; Australia; Chicago; United States; Frankfurt; Germany; Djakarta; Indonesia |
Conferences, Bahai; Conferences, Teaching; Conferences, Intercontinental; Ten Year Crusade |
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| 1958 14 Sep |
A week before the fifth Intercontinental conference is due to convene in Djakarta, Indonesia, the government withdrew the permit to hold the conference. [BW13:331]
For the story of why the permit was revoked see DM83–5.
The cancellation of the conference in Djakarta began a period of severe repression of the Faith in Indonesia which eventually led to the Faith being banned in 1962. [DM85, 88] |
Indonesia |
Persecution, Indonesia; Persecution, Bans; Persecution; Conferences, Bahai; Conferences, Teaching; Conferences, Intercontinental; Ten Year Crusade |
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| 1958 21 Sep |
Hand of the Cause Leroy Ioas arrived in Indonesia and was plunged into negotiations regarding the holding of the conference.
He met with local Bahá’ís and anointed them with attar of roses as they passed to the room to view the portrait of Bahá’u’lláh. [BW13:331–2] |
Indonesia |
Hands of the Cause; Hands of the Cause, Activities; Leroy Ioas |
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| 1961 (In the year) |
The military government in Indonesia issued instructions to local authorities to ban all Bahá’í activities and to confiscate all Bahá’í property. [MoC329] |
Indonesia |
Persecution, Indonesia; Persecution, Other; Persecution |
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| 1962 (In the year) |
The administrative institutions of the Faith were banned in Indonesia by President Sukarno. [BW19:41]
BW15:174 says this was in 1964, other indications are that it was around the time of the International Convention.
[Servants of the Glory page 30] |
Indonesia |
Persecution, Indonesia; Persecution, Other; Persecution |
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| 1964 Ridván |
The National Spiritual Assembly of Indonesia was formed with its seat in Djakarta and comprising Indonesia, the Mentawai Islands, Portuguese Timor and West Irian.
[BW14p99] |
Djakarta; Indonesia; Mentawai Islands; Portuguese Timor; West Irian |
National Spiritual Assembly, formation |
|
| 1972 (In the year) |
In Indonesia the Attorney-General confirmed the 1962 ban on Bahá’í administrative institutions and added a further prohibition against organized Bahá’í teaching activities. [BW19:41] |
Indonesia |
Persecution, Indonesia; Persecution, Bans; Persecution |
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| 1972 19 Jun |
The government of Indonesia re-affirmed the ban on the Bahá’í Faith.
Following this a number of Bahá’ís lost their jobs. |
Indonesia |
Persecution, Indonesia; Persecution, Bans; Persecution |
|
| 1974 (In the year) |
Owing to the failure of the Indonesian Bahá’ís to obtain religious liberty, the Universal House of Justice instructed that the national convention not be held. |
Indonesia |
Persecution, Indonesia; Persecution, Bans; Persecution; Conventions, National |
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| 1975 (In the year) |
Owing to the continuing ban on Bahá’í activities and institutions, the national spiritual assembly and all local spiritual assemblies were disbanded in Indonesia. |
Indonesia |
Persecution, Indonesia; Persecution, Bans; Persecution |
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| 1975 (In the year) |
In Indonesia several Bahá’ís were arrested, given light sentences and released for violating the 1962 and 1972 bans on Bahá’í activity. [BW19:41]
A few months later four Bahá’ís were sentenced to five years’ imprisonment; they remained in prison for the full five years. [BW19:41]
|
Indonesia |
Persecution, Indonesia; Persecution, Arrests; Persecution, Court cases; Persecution, Bans; Persecution |
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| 1984 (In the year) |
Four Bahá’ís, one of whom had already spent five years in prison, were imprisoned in Indonesia, convicted of membership in a banned religious organization, with teaching the Bahá’í Faith and with insulting Islám. [BW19:42]
The prison terms ranged from one to five years. [BW19:42] |
Indonesia |
Persecution, Indonesia; Persecution, Arrests; Persecution, Court cases; Court cases; Persecution |
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| 1985 Jul |
Three Bahá’í youths in Mentawai were imprisoned for having married according to Bahá’í law. [BW19:42] |
Mentawai Islands; Indonesia |
Persecution, Indonesia; Persecution, Other; Persecution; Human rights |
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| 2000. Ridván |
The National Spiritual Assembly of Indonesia with its seat in Jakarta was restored. A ban had been imposed on Bahá’í activities in August 1962 that severely restricted the actions of the Indonesian Bahá’í community. [Ridván Message 2001]
|
Jakarta; Indonesia |
National Spiritual Assembly, formation |
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| 2002 (In the year) |
The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued a fatwa (edict) that banned Bahá'ís from burying their dead relatives in public cemeteries. Religious violence targeting the Indonesian Bahá'í community began during the Suharto regime that restricted the official religions to only five. Bans on the Faith had been issued earlier in the 1960s and the 1970s. [The Jakarta Post August 8, 2014] |
Indonesia |
Persecution, Indonesia; Persecution, Bans; Persecution |
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| 2014 (In the year) |
The Baha'i International Community opened a Regional Office in Jakarta. The Office engaged inter-governmental associations such as ASEAN as well as various governmental agencies, civil society organizations and research institutes in the region with a view to convening gatherings, creating spaces devoted to collective inquiry, and meaningful discussion of contemporary issues in the region of Southeast Asia.
The present work of the Office is built on the long-time presence of the Baha'i Faith in this part of the world, dating back more than a century to the 1870s. Today, Baha'is are present in all Southeast Asian countries and are actively working for the spiritual and social advancement of their neighborhoods and villages. [BIC website; BIC News]
|
Jakarta; Indonesia |
Bahai International Community |
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| 2014 8 Aug |
The official ban on the Bahá'í Faith in Indonesia was lifted. [The Jakarta Post August 8, 2014] |
Jakarta; Indonesia |
Persecution, Indonesia; Persecution, Bans; Persecution |
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