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JAKARTA - Viral on social media in recent weeks, a video of persecution of a Sangha member named Mulyanto Nurhalim (43). Director General of Buddhist Bimas Supriyadi explained that it was an old 2018 video.

"It was an incident in 2018, it was resolved well at that time by involving religious and community leaders, as well as the apparatus. The conditions are very good and harmonious," Supriyadi explained as quoted from the Ministry of Religion's website, Thursday, November 3.

The 2018 incident occurred in the village of Kebun Baru RT 01/01 Babat Village, Legok District, Tangerang Regency. The incident was precisely on February 4, 2018.

"The matter has been resolved through deliberation with local residents and witnessed together with religious and local government leaders. We together with the Secretary General of the Ministry of Religion at that time, Mr. Nur Syam, also greeted and discussed with the residents there," he explained.

"Until now, the conditions of harmony have been very good, there are no problems related to this," he continued.

Supriyadi hopes that netizens can be wiser in sharing publication content, especially those that have the potential to cause misunderstandings. "We believe that Indonesian netizens are wiser, more careful, and intelligent in social media, so they can filter before sharing, they can digest information before sharing," he ordered.

The same thing was conveyed by Mulyanto Nurhalim who was a victim of persecution. According to him, the incident he experienced occurred in 2018.

"We are now in good condition in maintaining the harmonization of relations between religious communities," he said.


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