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TEACHING FOR TOLERANCE IN THE INDONESIAN CONTEXT:
The contribution of school education
Carried out in partnership between the Oslo Coalition and the State University of Islamic Studies UIN Alauddin, Makassar (in cooperation with the Christian Theological Seminary STT Intim).
Dates: 19-21 January 2007
See detailed program and titles of papers
Background:
As a follow-up to the United Nations’ Madrid Consultative Conference on School Education in Relation with Freedom of Religion or Belief in 2001, the Oslo Coalition on Freedom or Religion or Belief established a project called “Teaching for Tolerance”.
The project aims at sharing of information about regional and national developments, exchange of experiences, mutual inspiration and network building between scholars and educators concerned about tolerance education in school (and in other arenas).
A global meeting of experts was held in Oslo in September 2004. In November 2005, a workshop on “Learning about the Other and Teaching for Tolerance in Muslim majority societies” was held in Istanbul, in cooperation with the Turkish Centre for Values Education (see book). The project includes also cooperation with national partners in some countries of priority. For instance in the case of Indonesia, the Oslo Coalition has supported a project conducted by the interfaith organisation Interfidei which analyses various models and pedagogical approaches to religious education in Indonesia. In the same spirit, the Oslo Coalition has also supported a project on “Pluralism in the pesantren” in Jombang, Java. On the initiative of Zakyiuddin Baydawi (Muhammadiyah University, Solo), the booklet “Stories on Tolerance” (which contains the results of a world-wide writing contest) was translated into Indonesian. A representative of UIN Makassar took part in the 2005 workshop in Istanbul.
Workshop in January 2007:
On the background of previous contact, the Oslo Coalition held a workshop in in January 2007 about “Teaching for tolerance in Indonesia”, in cooperation with the State Islamic University (UIN) Alauddin in Makassar, Sulawesi. The workshop dealt with national and regional challenges regarding religious and civic education - in thematic clusters such as tolerance educaton in Indonesia; religious education in public school; the role of pesantren and Islamic private schools; the religious and political context for school education in Indonesia; and Islamic and Christian perspectives on tolerance education.
In addition, international perspectives on religion in school and tolerance education were dealt with by Robert Jackson (Warwick University, UK), Marcia Hermansen (Loyola University, Chicago, USA), Recep Kaymakcan (Sakarya University, Turkey), Nelly van Doorn-Harder (Valparaiso University, USA) and Oddbjørn Leirvik (University of Oslo, Norway).
