There are two main reasons as to why Presidential Regulation No. 20/2018 on the employment of foreign workers, which will become effective in early July, has stirred widespread uproar.

While the police investigation into the attack on a Catholic church in Yogyakarta is underway, many have been quick to express concern about the creeping intolerance facing the nation, contrary to our billing, and the world’s image of us, as – previously – a tolerant country.