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The cities of refuge (Hebrew: ערי המקלט ‘ārê ha-miqlāṭ) were six Levitical towns in the Kingdom of Israel and the Kingdom of Judah in which the perpetrators of accidental manslaughter could claim the right of asylum. Maimonides, invoking talmudic literature, expands the city of refuge count to all 48 Levitical cities. [1]
The Bible names six cities as being cities of refuge: Golan, Ramoth, and Bosor, on the east of the Jordan River, [1] and Kedesh, Shechem, and Hebron on the western side. [2] There is also an instance of Adonijah, after a failed coup, seeking refuge from the newly anointed Solomon by grasping the horns of a sacrificial altar. [3]
Cities of Refuge, the six biblical places referred to by that title; Ararat, City of Refuge, planned Jewish settlement in New York, United States; City of Refuge (Atlanta), a homeless ministry in Atlanta, Georgia; Puuhonua o Honaunau, the Hawaiian location known as "City of Refuge" City of Refuge Church in Gardena, California, US, led by Noel Jones
Indonesia is not a signatory to the 1951 Refugee Convention nor its 1967 Protocol, and there are no Indonesian laws that provide any rights to refugees. [3] Consequently, the Indonesian government does not perform any assessments of refugees' needs [3] nor do they have any rights to access employment, start a business, or any pathway to get permanent residency or citizenship.
The area is referred to in the Hebrew Bible as the territory of Manasseh in the conquered territory of Bashan: Golan was the most northerly of the three cities of refuge east of the Jordan River (Deuteronomy 4:43). Manasseh gave this Levitical city to the Gershonite Levites (Joshua 21:27; 1 Chronicles 6:71).
As of the 2020 census, there are a total of fourteen cities in Indonesia exceeding a population of one million people, and about 32.6 million people live in these fourteen cities (or 12.07% of Indonesia's population of 270.2 million people as of the 2020 census). Most of the provinces' largest cities in Indonesia are also their capital cities.
But all the cattle, and the spoil of the cities, we took for a prey to ourselves. Along with the half of Gilead, it was given to the half-tribe of Manasseh (Joshua 13:29–31). According to the Book of Joshua, Golan, one of its cities, became a Levitical city and a city of refuge (Joshua 21:27).
This type of city and regency in Indonesia is only found in Jakarta which consisted of five administrative cities and one administrative regency. As of January 2023, there were 514-second-level administrative divisions (416 regencies and 98 cities) in Indonesia. [3] The list below groups regencies and cities in Indonesia by provinces.