Non muslim are not discriminated in both Indonesia and Malaysia.

Almost 90% of the population of Indonesia is Muslim, gaining the archipelago the title of largest Muslim population in a country. However, Sharia law, the Islamic law, isn’t implemented in all of Indonesia where there are 6 official religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Confucianism and Buddhism.

Originally, the religion in Indonesia was animism. Over time, cultural beliefs mixed with religions and nowadays Balinese Hinduism doesn’t have much in common with traditional Hinduism as it is still practised in India for example. Perhaps it is this syncretism of religions that has encouraged the great tolerance and the peaceful coexistence of religions in Indonesia. The most important religious heritages in Indonesia are the temples of Borobudur and Prambanan near Yogyakarta in Java.

While today there are various religions practised in Indonesia, there is nevertheless a state philosophy called Pancasila (literally panca : five, sila: precept) which is directly derived from the five precepts of Buddhism:

There is only one God
Human kind is civilized and fair
Indonesia is united
Democracy must be thought through and representative
Social justice should be for every Indonesian citizen

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