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Silent on Uighurs, Leading Indonesian Clerics Deny Report of Chinese
Influence

Eva Mazrieva

   WASHINGTON - Indonesia's top Muslim clerical organization has dismissed
   a Wall Street Journal report that local Muslim organizations had
   received donations, financial support and other forms of assistance in
   return for keeping quiet about China's treatment of its Uighurs.

   "The allegation that the Islamic organizations receive large funds is
   very painful and discredits us at the same time. It's the same as
   character assassination," said Muhyidin Junaidi, chairperson of the
   Foreign Relations and International Cooperation of the Indonesia's
   Council of Islamic Clerics (Ulema), better known as MUI.

   Muhyidin -- who led the Chinese-funded delegation to Xinjiang last
   February -- told VOA by telephone: "We cannot be bought with money. We,
   God willing, are strict and we have high integrity for the sake of
   truth." According to the [1]International Consortium of Investigative
   Journalists(ICIJ), China is waging a campaign of surveillance,
   political and cultural indoctrination against Uighurs, Kazakhs and
   other Muslim ethnic groups in Xinjiang.
   

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   1. https://www.icij.org/investigations/china-cables/exposed-chinas-operating-manuals-for-mass-internment-and-arrest-by-algorithm/

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   2. file://localhost/east-asia-pacific/details-leak-chinas-mass-detention-camps-xinjiang-us-official-blasts

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