It is also bracing for rising intolerance and hate crimes.

There have been protests by prominent intellectuals at what they call a climate of rising intolerance.

Dismayed human rights activists said it was another sign of rising intolerance at hands of violent extremists.

Ferocious struggles for democracy unfold daily before our very eyes and the numbers of political prisoners grow in step with rising intolerance.

In truth, the only danger exposed by this referendum is a rising intolerance among secular ideologues of all things religious in the public square.

Indonesia, a country of 250 million people, has experienced rising intolerance against non-Muslims and the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community.

Indonesia has been criticised by the UN human rights chief this week because of rising intolerance against the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

But campaigners said the attack should not be separated from what they perceive as rising intolerance toward LGBT+ people in the country.

Indonesia is a secular state whose constitution enshrines religious freedom and diversity, but there are concerns that rising intolerance threatens its reputation for moderate Islam.

A sausage-wielding mob has stormed a vegan cafe in the Georgian capital Tbilisi, amid fears of rising intolerance and nationalist violence in the Caucasus state.