Aliran Kepercayaan Dalam Administrasi Kependudukan

Abstract

Indonesia is a country with a very plural society, either related ethnicity, language, religion or the beliefs that are diverse among citizens. The 1945 Constitution of the Republic of Indonesia as the constitutional basis of the State of the Republic of Indonesia guarantees freedom for every citizen to have religion or belief according to what each of them believes. Based on the explanation of Article 1 of Law Number 1 PNPS of 1965, the recognition of majority religion in Indonesian people included Islam, Christianity, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Khong Hu cu. This seems to be a reference that only the six recognised religions in Indonesia, while a long before the arrival of religion in Nusantara (Indonesia), there were already beliefs believed by various communities throughout the archipelago that were actually derived from their ancestors. From these two things it can be seen that there is a gap in the state’s treatment, between religion and belief. This gap has been increasingly apparent after the enactment of the article on the Population Administration Law which gave symbol of a dash (-) to followers of religions or beliefs other than the six above religions even though they were still recorded and served in the recording office. Until 2016, the trust groups filled the case to the Constitutional Court to fight for equality of state recognition of their beliefs, due to the Population Administration Law.