INDONESIA
For a new beginning Dear friends of the Mission, Rejoice in the Lord. With God’s help, we are in good health. I am writing this update to give you a briefing about our Mission in Indonesia: 1. The general situation in Indonesia is not good. Now let me briefly explain about the problems we are confronted with in our Mission in general. Both churches and mosques are almost closed and do not operate normally. Although they are open, the number of people allowed to attend is limited. This is the case with our own churches as well. Usually, it is me and Presbytera Elizabeth in the church. This situation has been going on for 6 months now, but we do not anticipate that it will
stop soon. Schools are closed, and students are taking lessons online. As you know, our Mission revenues, which are limited, come only from small churches and schools. As regards myself, I got my salary from the Holy Diocese of Arta, because I was ordained priest there, but none of our priests here in Indonesia has any salary at all. Prior to Covid19, schools were open smoothly. The majority of our priests here are teachers in these schools, thus they could make ends meet this way. Now that schools have been closed since March 2020, our priests have no income at all the local parishes are closed. The Diocese of Singapore cannot afford to pay anything to their priests. I told our problems to the Metropolitan 13
