Doubt and why good people do bad things

by Jennie S. Bev

Indonesia is renowned for its kind, smiling and warm-hearted people, beautiful culture, strong values, high morality, and for being very religious.

By the same token, Indonesia is also enigmatic, mind-boggling and paradoxical.

Minorities have been persecuted. “Heretical” Islamic sects have been condemned, destructed and banned. Churches have been burnt, closed and destroyed. Genocide has occurred in Papua causing tens of thousands of deaths.