Overview:

• Recognition and registration are amalgamated rather than ideally differentiated; legal registration is offered to all religious groups with the primary benefit being tax-exempt status.

• There exists a couple of two-step verifications that are unnecessary.

• There is a separate process of registration for groups with primarily foreign members or perhaps of foreign origin.

• Protestants and Muslims have reported some cases of discrimination and harassment.

Positive elements:

• Nil.

Recommendations:

• Establish differentiation between existential recognition and legal registration.

• Forms of discriminations and harassment reported should be resolved through means of recognition.

• Remove some of the administrative hurdles.

• To achieve dynamic status, establish an independent recognition agency to manage the recognition system.