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Indonesia Restores Confucianism's Legal Recognition

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Origin from 2000

In 1965, Indonesia's Law No. 1/PNPS/1965 on the Prevention of Religious Abuse named Confucianism as one of the religions held by the Indonesian population, alongside Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Hinduism and Buddhism. Presidential Instruction No. 14 of 1967 then stripped that recognition, linking Confucian practice to China and to communism and restricting its open observance for more than three decades under Suharto's government. On 17 January 2000, President Abdurrahman Wahid issued Presidential Decree No. 6 of 2000, revoking the 1967 instruction and restoring Confucianism's legal standing, alongside his declaration of Chinese New Year as a national holiday and his affirmation of ethnic Chinese citizens' equal rights. Confucianism is counted among Indonesia's officially recognized religions today.

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Start YearSourced to the subject's own account
from 2000 1
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Revived 1
Sourced to the subject's own accountRevived matches the arrived-suppressed-revived arc this tradition's map already uses for China: an outside government's legal recognition of Confucian practice, stripped for more than thirty years and then restored, marking the state's legal standing rather than any claim about Confucian practice's own continuity through the suppressed decades.
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How Indonesia Restored Confucianism's Legal Recognition

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In 1965, Indonesia's Law No. 1/PNPS/1965 on the Prevention of Religious Abuse named Confucianism as one of the religions held by the Indonesian population, alongside Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Hinduism and Buddhism, giving it formal standing among the country's recognized faiths.

That standing did not last. Presidential Instruction No. 14 of 1967 stripped the recognition, linking Confucian practice to China and to communism under Suharto's New Order government and restricting its open observance for more than three decades.

The reversal came on 17 January 2000, when President Abdurrahman Wahid issued Presidential Decree No. 6 of 2000, revoking the 1967 instruction and restoring Confucianism's legal standing. Wahid paired the decree with the declaration of Chinese New Year as a national holiday and an affirmation of the equal rights of ethnic Chinese citizens, addressing the same community the 1967 ban had targeted.

What the 2000 decree changed for Confucianism in Indonesia was ending more than three decades in which the faith could be practiced but not openly recognized, restoring it to the list of officially acknowledged religions it holds today, one of six named alongside Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Hinduism and Buddhism.

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China, Countries

This source names China directly: "linking Confucian practice to China and to communism and restricting its open observance for more than three decades under Suharto's government."

Source Sejarah Konghucu Jadi Agama Di Indonesia (Klikhukum.id)

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Indonesia, Countries
Source Sejarah Konghucu Jadi Agama Di Indonesia (Klikhukum.id)

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Confucianism, Religions

Confucianism's map held no event outside China and Korea before this file. Adds Southeast Asia's own dated legal history, an arrived-suppressed-revived arc distinct from the Cultural Revolution and 2009 events already on the map.

Source Sejarah Konghucu Jadi Agama Di Indonesia (Klikhukum.id)
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1. Sejarah Konghucu Jadi Agama Di Indonesia (Klikhukum.id)
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