The annual Report to Congress on International Religious Freedom – the International Religious Freedom Report – describes the status of religious freedom in every country. The report covers government policies violating religious belief and practices of groups, religious denominations and individuals, and U.S. policies to promote religious freedom around the world. The U.S. Department of Written form of Buddhism in Indonesia standardised in 2019 to have a second ‘D’. Minor spelling alteration alludes to the wider evolution of Buddhism in the country. With the change, Indonesian Buddhism brought closer to transnational sects. In early February 2019, somewhere in the corridors of the central Jakarta headquarters of the Democracy and Religion in Indonesian Diversity. On 17 April 2019 General Elections took place simultaneously choosing the President and Vice President as well as national provincial and regency legislators and national senators throughout Indonesia. Indonesian citizens abroad were also given the opportunity to vote before April 17. There are, however, no graphs or statistics regarding the minority-majority religious makeup of Central Java itself. A more comprehensive examination of these numbers would give readers a clearer sense of the relationship between the area under consideration and the broader national context. Both the secular nationalist party, Partai Nasional Indonesia (PNI), and the communist party, Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI), cut across class and religious lines. Both parties promoted a secular nation-state, because neither had any desire to see strict Shari’a law imposed (Barton and Fealy 1996 , 65). Write an article and join a growing community of more than 175,400 academics and researchers from 4,827 institutions. I try to learn who are the ancestors of Indonesian people through genetics III. America’s New Religious Landscape: Three Major Trends The National Decline in White Christian Identity. Demographically, the U.S. historically has been an overwhelmingly white Christian country, with white Protestants alone constituting a clear cultural majority. 6 In 1976, roughly eight in ten (81%) Americans identified as white and identified with a Christian denomination. There are more than 180 ethnic-religious communities spanning from Sumatra to the smaller islands in eastern Indonesia. They are estimated to encompass around 10 to 12 million people, although the 2010 census recorded only 299,617 people or 0.13 percent of Indonesians claiming to be exclusively ethnic believers. I enjoy observing how religion and faith play an essential role in Indonesia's varied cultures. On the other hand, an extreme and non-contextual interpretation of religion can threaten peace and prosperity. In recent years, Southeast Asia region has seen a rise of violent extremism and Indonesia has not been immune to the threat. LIMITS TO RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY PRACTICE IN INDONESIA 725 their religion as a compulsory subject. The compulsory study of religion applies even at the tertiary level and even in secular institutions. Although over 85 per cent of Indonesian students attend secular schools (Azra et al., 2007: 177-180), 40XDd.