Overview:

• Recognition and registration are amalgamated rather than ideally differentiated; a focus is placed on legal registration with few to no means of existential recognition; procedures for registration are not distinguished for religious between secular entities.

• Mandatory annual reports look to be appropriate as long as they only cover financial information and that such information provided is not misused.

Positive elements:

• Freedom of religion or belief is broadly upheld by the government in practice.

• The one-step procedure granting nationwide registration shows dynamic character as it avoids the procedure becoming onerous.

Recommendations:

• A lack of distinction between procedures for registering religious and secular entities needs to be resolved through the differentiation of procedures for these two types of entities.