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The Indonesia Project
Project group: Dag Kaspersen (group chair), Oddbjørn Leirvik - UiO, Tore Lindholm - UiO, Kari Telle (Christian Michelsens Institute), Kari Vogt - UiO, Lena Larsen - UiO.
The Indonesia project aims at establishing relationships both between faith communities and between academia in Norway and Indonesia, with a view to co-operation in the fields of inter-religious dialogue, human rights protection, and conflict resolution. The project will focus on the role of the faith communities in civil society, with a particular emphasis on women- and youth perspectives. Additional emphasis will be put on the role of religious education in fostering tolerance, and interfaith perspectives in academic training.
One of the greatest challenges in Indonesia today is the education of children and youth to a multicultural globalised world. Where people with different cultural and religious identity study together there is a great need for analysis and critical self reflection. Many different groups in Indonesia today are trying to reinterpret their holy writings, their traditions and their laws in order to find a peaceful way forward. Most institutions of learning act as cultural and religious meeting places. In some contexts these meeting places have enormous positive potential, in others they become a destructive force.
In this situation, the Oslo Coalition works to promote cross-religious cooperation at the university level. The Coalition works to create networks of NGO's, sentral institutions of education, and religious leaders.
In 2008:
the Oslo Coalition project group for Indonesia will concetrate on one main project. Together with the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS), the Indonesian Consortium for Inter-religious Studies (ICRS) and HIVOS (the Dutch Humanist Association), the OC will facilitate and support a "Bridge Building Dialogue". This will consist of a series of workshops culminating in an International Conference. The objective is to initiate a dialogue on subjects such as youth, media, education, and the global impact, and involve not only people who are already familiar with this kind of dialogue, but also those which are usually excluded because of the perception that they are marginal groups, perceived as being on the one or the other end of the political-religious spectrum.In 2007:
The following projects were carried out:- University training course in freedom of religion and belief at the UIN (Islamic University) Yogyakarta, see here
- Development of the pilot workshop material into a further education module for teachers of religion in Makassar at the Islamic State Universities (UIN Sunan Kalijaga/UIN Alauddin Makassar)
- Essay competition on human rights and sharia in Koran Schools
- Preparation and groundwork for NCHR's field work research on the Hindu-Balinese minority on Lombok.
- Interfidei research project on Indonesian Religious education at primary and secondary level, see here.
- Delegational visit til Indonesa in the Summer of 2007 to follow up the agreement on cooperation with the universities in Yogyakarta, Medan og Surabaya (both Islamic and Christian seats of education).
Earlier Projects:
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- Makassar, January 2007: A workshop on Teaching for Tolerance in the Indonesian context was held 19-21 January 2007 in cooperation with the State University of Islamic Studies UIN Makassar.
- Yogyakarta, June 2004: International Workshop on Equality and Plurality, in cooperation with UIN Yogyakarta
- Indonesia delegation visit, August 2002
Surveys and thematic reports:
- More information about the school education project in Indonesia
- From Lily Zakiyah Munir, Interfidei:
- Islam, Feminism and Islamic Education in Indonesia (interview, 2004)
- Nurturing Tolerance in Pesantren (article, 2003)
