Film Festival Promotes Interfaith Tolerance Through Documentaries

... documentary films about interfaith tolerance during an event in ... and educating Indonesians about tolerance. The films featured during ... and educating people on tolerance. "Documentary film has ... religion. Therefore, it is also important to promote tolerance ...

Jakarta Ranked as Indonesia's Most Intolerant City: Setara Institute

... to a rise in religion-based identity politics prior ... to promote and practice tolerance, and cities were awarded ... heterogeneity indicates higher levels of tolerance. However, Setara Institute vice ... made considerable efforts to promote tolerance. "We hope this ...

Willing to Learn Tolerance? Be a Minority

... themselves otherwise, regardless of religion or ethnicity. The combination ... campaign to defend their religion, a move that echoed ... Catholic, said that while religion is important, brotherhood and ... provinces, religious harmony and tolerance are also strong. In ...

Is Indonesia’s Unity Threatened by Hardline Turn?

... 's tradition of religious tolerance, while maintaining high approval ... they [politicians] will use [religion] again," he said. Islamic ... about the use of religion as a political commodity. ... produces fatwas (rulings on religion-related matters) and advises ...

Radical Groups Feed Off Differences: NU Cleric

... as a fundamentalist approach to religion through a strict, literal ... were concerns that religious tolerance in Indonesia was at a ... always been focused on preserving tolerance," As'ad said. To ... ones. "The prerequisite for tolerance is, if we see differences ...

Former First Lady Sinta Nuriyah on Importance of Bhinneka Tunggal Ika

... Pancasila state ideology, which promotes tolerance and acceptance of diversity in ... political battles involving politicians using religion and ethnicity to defeat opponents ... forefront to campaign for religious tolerance. Jombang, Sinta's birthplace in ...

Kalla Says Violent Extremism Results From Twisted Interpretation of Islam

... Vice President Jusuf Kalla says religion is not a source of ... center for teaching peace and tolerance. He said Indonesia is ... play a role in promoting tolerance and pluralism," as well ... including Indonesia. You cannot insult religion and Ahok – after a six ...

Indonesia's Blasphemy Law Should Not Be Repealed: PKS

... needed to preserve harmony, religious tolerance and limit acts that could ... to his or her own religion or belief. "It should not ... there, people can just insult [...] religion. This will trigger disharmony that ...

VP Kalla to Speak About Religious Tolerance at Oxford University

... Kalla will speak about religious tolerance in Indonesia upon an invitation ... Islam in Indonesia, how the religion is practiced here. Many experts ... unity as long as [the religion] is rightly practiced," Kalla said ...

US Ambassador Calls on Indonesian Leaders to Speak Out Against Intolerance

... express opinions about a particular religion," the ambassador said. ... world jeopardize freedom of religion, expression, assembly and ... Indonesia’s commitment to religious tolerance and pluralism, "[the ... and on freedom of religion or belief." British Ambassador ...