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The first film of the Indonesian Pluralities series has been released on Youtube. Now, the second film, titled Beta Mau Jumpa or Ambon: A Return to Peace, is taking its turn to be screened and discussed in various communities across Indonesia. This month’s newsletter also features a reflection on Beta Mau Jumpa and, as usual, students’ essays.

After more than 90 screenings and discussions across Indonesia, Atas Nama Percaya or In the Name of Belief has now been released to the public online. Capturing a history of the struggle of Indonesia’s indigenous religions through the lens of the Marapu and Perjalanan communities, this film is the first in the Indonesian Pluralities series.

Beta Mau Jumpa or Ambon: A Return to Peace, the second film of the Indonesian Pluralities series, shows how women and youth have strived to bridge the gap between Ambon’s Christians and Muslims who experienced communal conflict and religious-based segregation. Follow CRCS’ social media for information about the film screenings.

The first public screening of Beta Mau Jumpa at the State Christian College (IAKN) of Ambon earlier this week was attended by more than 150 people including the rectors of both IAKN and State Islamic College (IAIN) of Ambon. This January release was partly to reflect on the Ambon tragedy that started 21 years ago in January 1999.

Based on her speech at the limited screening and press release of Beta Mau Jumpa at Gadjah Mada University, Dr Diah Kusumaningrum reflects on the film, saying that it shows how reconciliation happens at the non-formal, grassroots level and is driven by women, one thing that hasn’t been featured enough in media narratives. (Indonesian)

2019 marked the UN’s Year of Indigenous Languages. Running parallel in its aims, in 2019 CRCS hosted a conference on indigenous religions, published a report advocating social inclusion for indigenous religions, as well as releasing a film about them. What are the relations between indigenous languages, indigenous religions, and the environment?

World religions tend to have a hierarchical perspective in seeing the relation between the supernatural, culture, and nature. This paradigm has brought about the perception that followers of indigenous religions ‘worship’ trees, rivers, mountains, etc, while indigenous religions themselves may have a different worldview. (Indonesian)

In the understanding of many Indonesians today, radicalism is often defined as anti-nationalism or anti-Pancasila. But, history shows that many of what the Dutch colonial government called ‘radical’ Muslim movements instead inspired nationalist prominent figures that brought Indonesia to independence. (Indonesian)

President Jokowi signed an inscription in Barus, North Sumatra, to mark Barus as the “zero point” for the spread of Islam in the Archipelago. It should remind us about what happened during the rapid conversion to Islam and how new religions as well as modernity respond to the centuries-long local cultures of what many call ‘shamanic’, ‘syncretic’, ‘animistic’, etc. (Indonesian)

CRCS Newsletter - January 2020




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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