The Jakarta Post (Friday, November 14 2014)
Home Minister Tjahjo Kumolo has stated that followers of minority faiths can leave the religion column on their KTP (identity cards) blank. Yet the real problem beyond the debate of leaving the column blank or removing it altogether not only regards equality and civil rights for followers of aliran kepercayaan (indigenous religions or local faiths) — but the definition of agama (religion) itself.
Leaving the religion column blank for followers of faiths “which are not yet recognized as religions based on laws and regulations or adherents of kepercayaan [faiths]”, according to the 2013 Population Administration Law, was already legal in the 2006 law that it replaced.