NEWS

This month we'll be launching our newly redesigned CRCS website, which reflects our continuing focus on making the products of our research accessible to the public, as well as providing a space for the open discussion about issues of freedom of religion and belief, diversity, and religion and culture in Indonesia. The new web page highlights our publications, our public education programs, and our featured articles.

Starting the CRCS-ICRS Wednesday Forum for this semester, Dr. Arskal Salim, who currently serves as the Director of Islamic Higher Education at the Ministry of Religious Affairs, Indonesia, will deliver a public lecture on the politics of sharia on the Aceh-North Sumatra border. Not as usual, this forum will be held at the auditorium of UGM’s Graduate School Building.

All academic courses at CRCS are conducted in English, and we accept at-large international students on a case by case basis. Courses for this semester include Research Methods in Religious Studies; Religion, State and Society; Indigenous Religons; Interreligious Dialogue; Religion and Tourism; and Advanced Study of Christianity and Buddhism. For inquiries on enrollment, please contact crcs@ugm.ac.id.

In collaboration with the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii (CSEAS UHM), CRCS will be shooting three short films on religious diversity in various locations around Indonesia in 2018. These films are supported by a grant from the US Department of Education as part of the Religion and Diversity Initiative. This project is aimed at creating educational resources on diversity in Southeast Asia for educational institutions in the US and Indonesia. The finished products will be hosted on the CRCS and CSEAS websites and along  with resources that will assist educators to include these media products in developing lesson plans or public discussions.
 
The first episode of the film series will begin production in March of 2018 in Wakitobi National Park. Video journalist and creator of the Global Workshop Matt Colaciello and CRCS faculty member Kelli Swazey will work with the Bajau village of Sampela to document how the community's Islamic identity and their  indigenous religious practices informs their relationship with the ocean environment of their home in the Tukang Besi archipelago.

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