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This month’s newsletter features a speech and report from the International Conference on Indigenous Religions held at UGM last month; the two latest CRCS publications that are available for download on indigenous religions and religious freedom limitations; and students’ essays.

The 2017 Constitutional Court’s (MK) ruling on indigenous religions, though not yet resolving all the problems afflicting them, constitutes progress in Indonesia’s upholding of its national principle of equal citizenship. That was one of the main points Boston University’s Robert Hefner made in his keynote speech at the International Conference on Indigenous Religion at UGM last month.

The first panel of the International Conference on Indigenous Religions at UGM addressed the ambiguity surrounding the meaning of ‘’religion” and “belief” in Indonesia’s Constitution; the stratification of religions/beliefs implied by the religious defamation law; and mainstream religious leaders’ reception of the Constitutional Court’s ruling on indigenous religions.
 

The latest CRCS report outlines the kinds of advocacy for social inclusion for followers of indigenous religion. While the Constitutional Court’s ruling on their identity card significantly improves the quality of civil administration for them, this report suggests that the social reception remains a problem, but there are ways to redress it.
 

While religious freedom can indeed be limited, governments often limit it excessively for various reasons such as maintaining control or due to pressure from certain religious groups. This book outlines the normative framework for limitation that policies should take into consideration by comparing Indonesia’s legal system and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

WatchdoC Documentary co-founder Dandhy Laksono shared his reflections at CRCS on his one year travelling across Indonesia by motorcycle to make the 12 documentary film series as part of the Ekspedisi Indonesia Biru (Blue Indonesia Expedition) project—the last film of which was Sexy Killers. He said that Gunter Pauli’s idea on the blue economy was one of the inspirations behind this project.

To prevent more violence during the Ambon conflict, the government enacted the policy of religious-based segregation. While it was indeed effective, it has a serious side effect: segregation created homogenous neighborhoods which provided fertile grounds for conflict narratives to be passed down to the young generation. A CRCS thesis on this issue shows religious prejudices are still prevalent among Ambon youth today.

CRCS Newsletter of August 2019



The Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS) is a Master's Degree program in Religious Studies and a research center at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM).
 
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