Perbincangan mengenai adat dan agama di Indonesia acapkali menarasikan kedua istilah ini sebagai dual hal yang berbeda dan terpisah satu sama lain. Padahal pengertian ini lahir dari konstruksi historis.
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Intersession courses: Religion and Human Rights; and Comparative Mysticism: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
A report on the Wednesday Forum lecture with Dr Zainal Abidin Bagir.
Wednesday Forum, 24 April 2019. Speaker: Delphine Allès is a professor of political science at Sorbonne Paris City University, France.
Notes from a CRCS’s Advanced Study of Confucianism class taught by Dr. Evi Lina Sutrisno
Wednesday Forum, 10 April 2019. Speaker: Vissia Ita Yulianto, from Center for Southeast Asian Social Studies, UGM.
Manifesto pelaku teror di Christchurch, yang berjudul "The Great Replacement", berpandangan bahwa gelombang imigrasi dan tingginya angka kelahiran Muslim mengancam eksitensi ras kulit putih.
A review of Nahdlatul Ulama's call for an end to addressing non-Muslims as "kafir", an appeal arising from its recent national conference in West Java.
The attempt to understand the Islamists’ reasoning of Pancasila is important. Yet one should ask, what were the conditions that enabled and constrained such reasoning?
Liputan Wednesday Forum 20 Feb 2019 tentang kasus Patung Dewa Kwan Kong di Kelenteng Kwan Sing Bio, Tuban.
Foto-foto dari Pekan Budaya Tionghoa Yogyakarta (PBTY) di kampung pecinan Ketandan, pada 13-19 Februari 2019.
Rizieq Shihab, who condemned the New Order regime, has called the Soeharto's children-led Berkarya Party a "nationalist, Pancasilaist" party.
Komunitas berisi para pemuda Timor memberdayakan masyarakat lokal di sekitar Mollo, Timor Tengah Selatan, NTT, dengan mengembangkan literasi dan wirausaha sosial berbasis adat.
Six month after his appointment, Ma'ruf Amin appears to confirm the inclusion-moderation theory. But a closer look suggests it has yet to be the case.
Review buku karya Tamir Moustafa, "Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights, and the Malaysian State" (2018).
CRCS’s World Religions class visit to the Hindu temple located on Jl. Pura 370, Banguntapan, Bantul.
Refleksi dari Kongres Kebudayaan Indonesia (KKI) 2018 yang dihelat Kemendikbud, Jakarta, pada 5-9 Desember.
Esai foto dari ibadah dan perayaan Natal di GKJ, GPIB, GKI, dan HKBP Yogyakarta, 24 Desember 2018.
Jika aplikasi Smart Pakem, sebagai upaya Bakor Pakem mengawasi aliran "sesat", dilanjutkan, maka amat mungkin kita justru akan menyaksikan lebih banyak kasus persekusi dan konflik alih-alih menciptakan kerukunan.
the case of Caritas Germany shows one of the benefits of globalization where it provides a common platform for people of different faith to work together.
Wed Forum, 5 Dec 2018. Speaker: Dayana Lengauer from the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
A reflection on two of the many readings discussed in the CRCS course “Religion, Violence and Peacebuilding".
Wednesday Forum, 28 November 2018. Speaker: Dicky Senda, founder of Lakoat.Kujawas.
Wed Forum, 21 Nov 2018. Speaker: Dr Siti Syamsiyatun, director of ICRS.
Review artikel Mohammed M. Hafez dan Quintan Wiktorowicz, "Violence as Contention in the Egyptian Islamic Movement" (2003).
Liputan dari seminar Janji Perdamaian dan Masa Depan Palestina bersama Profesor Dajani Daoudi dari Al-Quds University, Yerusalem, di Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, UGM, Oktober 2018.
Wednesday Forum, 14 November 2018. Speaker: Ismail Fajrie Alatas from New York University.
A review of Marthen Tahun’s master's thesis at CRCS UGM (2008) titled “The Ambiguity of Religion: A Study of the Ambon Conflict, 1999-2001".
Wednesday Forum, 7 Nov 2018. Speaker: Le Ngoc Bich Ly from Payap University, Thailand.
A report from the Wednesday Forum presentation by Elizabeth Inandiak.
Wed Forum, 24 Oct 2018. Speaker: Maria Adriani, from UII Yogyakarta.
A report of the Wednesday Forum talk by Dr Abd Gaffar Karim from FISIPOL UGM.
Wednesday Forum, 17 October 2018. Speaker: Daniel Petz.
A report from the Wednesday Forum talk by Dr Achmad Munjid.
Catatan dari diskusi temuan survei nasional opini publik Lembaga Survei Indonesia di Perpustakaan Pusat, Universitas Gadjah Mada, 26 September 2018.
Pemutaran dan Diskusi Film "Our Land is the Sea", 10 Oktober 2018.
Wednesday Forum, 10 October 2018. Speaker: Daud Sihombing.
Wednesday Forum, 3 October 2018. Speaker: Elizabeth D Inandiak, a french writer and translator.
A review of Albertus Rahardjo's 2007 master’s thesis at CRCS on the experiences of a post-disaster Christian community in Bantul, Yogyakarta.
Wednesday Forum, 26 Sept 2018. Speaker: Azis Anwar Fachrudin
A review of Wilis Ekowati’s 2006 master thesis at CRCS UGM titled “The Controversy of Bhikkhuni Ordination (Upasampadā) within Theravada Buddhism in Indonesia”.
Wed Forum, 19 September 2018. Speaker: Abdul Gaffar Karim, from FISIPOL, UGM.
CRCS and ICRS are now looking for potential speakers for the weekly Wednesday Forum.
Wednesday Forum, 12 Sept. Speaker: Achmad Munjid, from FIB UGM.
CRCS bekerja sama dengan Dispar dan DLHK Bulukumba serta Lembaga Adat Ammatoa Kajang/LAAK menyelenggarakan Pelatihan Kelompok Sadar Ekowisata untuk komunitas Ammatoa di Bulukumba.
Review film "Our Land is the Sea", film tentang tiga generasi keluarga Bajau, di harian Kompas.
Liputan dari kegiatan KKN PPM UGM dan CaRED UGM di Organda, Jayapura.
Polemik Tafsir Pancasila
CRCS UGM – 14 Agustus 2018
Tahun 2017 menjadi salah satu tahun penting dalam sejarah Pancasila. Sekurang-kurangnya empat peristiwa terkait Pancasila pada 2017 layak dicatat. Pertama, tanggal 1 Juni, hari Lahir Pancasila, untuk pertama kali menjadi hari libur nasional. Kedua, pemerintah mengampanyekan “Pekan Pancasila” pada 29 Mei—4 Juni. Ketiga, Presiden Joko Widodo membentuk Unit Kerja Presiden Pembinaan Ideologi Pancasila. Keempat, dan ini yang paling penting, Pancasila kembali mengalami penguatan posisi sebagai instrumen legal untuk membubarkan organisasi kemasyarakatan yang mengampanyekan ideologi yang dianggap bertentangan dengan Pancasila. Hal yang terakhir terjadi dengan terbitnya Peraturan Pemerintah Pengganti Undang-Undang (Perppu) No. 2/2017 tentang Organisasi Kemasyarakatan. Di samping kampanye dari pemerintah, beberapa inisiatif muncul dari lembaga masyarakat.
Toleransi yang murah ialah sikap acuh tak acuh; toleransi yang menghindari perjumpaan dengan 'orang lain'. Bersikap toleran terhadap orang-orang dari agama lain itu gampang jika mereka hampir tak pernah kita jumpai.
Tolerance, i.e. real and sincere tolerance, is not cheap. It costs; it has a price that we must pay if we really intend to be tolerant.
Catatan dari kelas Religion and Human Rights bersama Lena Larsen dari Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion or Belief.
Kumpulan makalah terpilih dari konferensi "Costly Tolerance" yang diselenggarakan The Netherlands-Indonesia Consortium for Muslim-Christian Relations/NICMCR pada 2015.
Catatan dari kuliah Religion and Human Rights bersama Tore Lindholm dari Oslo Coalition on Freedom of Religion and Belief.
Telaah terhadap buku Sarah Song, "Justice, Gender, and The Politics of Multiculturalism" (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
Catatan pertama dari kuliah Religion and Human Rights, semester pendek CRCS UGM 2018.
Catatan dari pengalaman personal, tentang Nazisme, anti-Semitisme, dan sekilas sejarah Yahudi di Indonesia.
The Chinese Lantern Festivel has been an annual public event in Tegal, Central Java, in which the non-Chinese also participate, as explored by Khaerul Ummah (CRCS, 2004 batch) in his master’s thesis.
A report of the Wednesday Forum presentation by Barbara Andaya, professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Wawancara dengan Frans Wijsen, profesor studi agama praktikal, Universitas Radboud, Belanda.
"Terorisme lahir dari krisis identitas yang tercipta dari situasi kompleks sehingga pelaku tidak bisa berlaku normal."
"Terrorism is born out of an identity crisis as a result of a complex situation that has made the terrorists unable to behave like normal people."
A prayer recited in conclusion of UGM's "Act of Concern Confronting Terrorism" event held at Balairung UGM on 14 May 2018.
Doa ini dalam Aksi Keprihatinan UGM Melawan Terorisme yang diselenggarakan di Balairung UGM, 14 Mei 2018.
What kind of parents could strap bombs onto their children’s bodies and lead them to commit suicide together? What kind of logic implanted in their minds?
Bagaimana bisa orang tua tega melilitkan sabuk bom di tubuh anak-anak mereka untuk bersama-sama bunuh diri? Nalar kekerasan apa yang ada di kepala para “penjemput kematian” ini?
Pengeboman tiga gereja di Surabaya pada 13 Mei 2018 mengejutkan publik. Pelakunya ternyata satu keluarga. Bagaimana ini bisa terjadi?
Hari internasional yang baru disahkan PBB dan diinisiasi oleh Asosiasi Internasional Sufi Alawiyyah
A newly UN-recognized international day, proposed by Algeria, initiated by the International Association of the Sufi Alawiyya.
Percakapan Elisabeth Inandiak, penulis asal Prancis yang kini berbasis di Yogyakarta, dengan Syekh Khaled Bentounes, mursyid tarekat Alawiyyah dari Aljazair.
A report on the CRCS's Christianity class' visit to three different churches around Yogyakarta, April 2018.
A report from the Wednesday Forum presentation by Dr Magdy Behman on April 18, 2018.
Ulasan buku "Freedom of Religion, Apostasy and Islam" (2004) karya Abdullah Saeed dan Hassan Saeed.
A conversation between the Yogyakarta-based French writer Elisabeth Inandiak and Sheikh Khaled Bentounes, the spiritual leader of the Sufi path Alâwiyya.
Wednesday Forum, May 9, 2018. Speaker: Volker Gottowik from Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
A report from the Wednesday Forum presentation by Frans Wijsen on March 28, 2018.
An interview with Frans Wijsen, professor of practical religious studies from Radboud University, the Netherlands.
Konferensi Pendidikan Agama Inklusif III di Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana, Yogyakarta, pada 8 Mei 2018.
Catatan dari Seminar Agama-Agama (SAA) ke-33 yang diselenggarakan Persekutuan Gereja-gereja di Indonesia (PGI) 20—23 Maret 2018 di Parapat, Sumatera Utara.
Wednesday Forum, May 2, 2018. Speaker: Eckhard Zemmrich from Humboldt-Universität, Berlin.
CRCS students taking the Advanced Study of Buddhism class accompanied by the lecturer Dr. Gregory Vanderbilt attended the fifteenth annual cultural event of the Ruwat Rawat Borobudur, April 2018.
Wednesday Forum, April 25, 2018. Speaker: Al Khanif, from Universitas Jember.
CRCS UGM menyelenggaran lokakarya tentang masyarakat sadar ekowisata bersama masyarakat adat Ammaota serta Dispar dan DLHK Kabupaten Bulukumba, Sulawesi Selatan.
CRCS UGM menyelenggarakan lokakarya tentang masyarakat sadar ekowisata bersama masyarakat adat Ammaota serta Dispar dan DLHK Kabupaten Bulukumba, Sulawesi Selatan.
Wednesday Forum, April 18, 2018. Speaker: Prof. Magdy Behman, from Eastern Mennonite University, Virginia, USA.
As part of the Advanced Study of Buddhism course at CRCS, students visited two different Buddhist communities in Yogyakarta.
Wednesday Forum, April 11, 2018. Speaker: Dr Suhadi Cholil from the Graduate School of UIN Sunan Kalijaga.
Tanggapan untuk ulasan Pak Syaiful Arif terhadap Laporan "Polemik Tafsir Pancasila" (CRCS, 2018).
Wednesday Forum, April 4, 2018. Speaker: Barbara Andaya, professor of Asian Studies at the University of Hawai'i.
A report on the Wednesday Forum presentation by Ihsan Ali-Fauzi, the director of PUSAD Paramadina.
Liputan diskusi publik di Fakultas Hukum UGM, 27 Februari 2018.
Wednesday Forum, March 28, 2018. Speaker: Frans Wijsen from Radboud University, the Netherlands.
Accepting an invitation from Suprapto Suryodamo, a Javanese artist from Padepokan Lemah Putih Solo, CRCS and ICRS students went to Borobudur and practice the spiritual bodily movement called Amerta dance.
Wednesday Forum, March 21, 2018. Speaker: Diah Kusumaningrum, lecturer at the Department of International Relations, UGM.
Wednesday Forum, March 14, 2018. Speaker: Ayu Kartika Dewi, managing director of Indika Foundation, Jakarta.
Dosen dan alumnus CRCS UGM menjadi saksi ahli dalam uji materi UU Penodaan Agama di Mahkamah Konstitusi, 20 Februari 2018.
Wednesday Forum, March 7, 2018. Speaker: Hilman Latief, from Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta.
Wednesday Forum, February 28, 2018. Speaker: Matt Colaciello, a digital storyteller.
Buku "Pasang Surut Rekognisi Agama Leluhur" (CRCS, 2017) kini dapat diunduh gratis, demikian juga ringkasannya dalam bahasa Inggris.
Buku "Dari Masjid ke Panggung Politik: Melacak Akar Kekerasan Agama antara Komunitas Sunni dan Syiah di Sampang" (CRCS 2016) kini dapat diunduh gratis,
Unduh gratis buku "Krisis Keistimewaan: Kekerasan terhadap Minoritas di Yogyakarta" (CRCS, 2017) karya Iqbal Ahnaf dan Hairus Salim.
Wednesday Forum, February 14, 2018. Speaker: Febriana Firdaus, a freelance investigative journalist.
Buku yang terbit pertama kali pada 2010 atas kerja sama Penerbit Mizan dan CRCS ini kini dapat diunduh gratis!
Buku Pluralisme Kewargaan (2011) yang diterbitan CRCS UGM bekerja sama dengan Mizan kini dapat diunduh gratis!
Wednesday Forum with Prof. Arskal Salim from the Ministry of Religious Affairs, on Feb 7 at the Graduate School of UGM.
Laporan terbaru CRCS, tentang alternatif model kebijakan untuk menangani masalah "penodaan agama"; ditulis Zainal Abidin Bagir.
A report from the Wednesday Forum presentation by Dr Wening Udasmoro.
A coverage of Mark Woodward's presentation at CRCS-ICRS Wednesday Forum on the Muhammadiyah Association of Singapore.
Eight points of the Protestant Reformation's legacies to the modern world, as explained by Prof. Hans-Peter Grosshans at CRCS-ICRS Wednesday Forum.
Rekap peristiwa 2017: pilkada Jakarta, penodaan agama, pembubaran HTI, peneguhan Pancasila, aliran kepercayaan, Rohingya, Reformasi Protestan, dll.
Natal adalah epifani atau pernyataan Allah dalam diri Yesus, yang mengandung makna solidaritas terhadap manusia yang diciptakan menurut gambar ilahi.
In insisting that “animist” faiths be given a lower status than “religion”, Islamic leaders ignore how the false divide between them was constructed in the first place.
Mengenang John Raines, guru besar yang menginspirasi, agamawan, ilmuwan yang aktivis, yang membantu pendirian dan pengembangan CRCS di masa-masa awal dan mengajar generasi pertama para mahasiswanya.
In memoriam John Raines, an inspiring professor, a pastor, an activist, who invaluably contributed to the founding of CRCS and taught the first generations of its students.
An interview with Mun'im Sirry, assistant professor at the Univerity of Notre Dame, on his book "Controversies over Early Islam".
A report on the presentation by Evi Sutrisno on Indonesian Confucianism at the CRCS-ICRS Wednesday Forum.
A report of the Wednesday Forum presentation by Linda Yanti Sulistiawati, lecturer at the Faculty of Law, UGM.
Bagaimana memaknai Reformasi Protestan dalam konteks kepelbagaian agama di zaman kiwari?
Bagaimana memaknai Reformasi Protestan dalam konteks kepelbagaian agama di zaman kiwari?
Tiga buku CRCS seri Agama dan Bencana kini dapat diunduh gratis.
CRCS students of the World Religions class visited the oldest klenteng (Chinese temple) in Yogyakarta, named Tjen Ling Kiong or more commonly known as Klenteng Poncowinatan.
Liputan hari pertama lokakarya Pelembagaan Mediasi Antariman bersama Imam Ashafa dan Pastor Wuye di UC UGM.
A report of the first day of the workshop on the institutionalization of interfaith mediation with Imam Ashafa and Pastor Wuye at UGM.
Liputan hari ketiga lokakarya Pelembagaan Mediasi Antariman, tentang pengalaman "public peacemaking" Jacky Manuputty dan diskursus agama sebagai penggerak perdamaian.
Liputan dari hari ketiga bersama Jacky Manuputty dalam rangkaian kuliah umum "Imam & Pastor" dan lokakarya Pelembagaan Mediasi Antariman.
A review of Stephen Prothero's 2010 book, "God is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions that Run the World.
A report of the CRCS-ICRS Wednesday Forum presentation by Dr Haidar Bagir on the need for a paradigm shift in understanding Islam.
Liputan lokakarya Pelembagaan Mediasi Antariman bersama Maria "Deng" Giguiento dari Filipina di UC UGM, 12 Oktober 2017.
Liputan acara kuliah umum bersama Imam Ashafa dan Pastor Wuye dari Nigeria di Gadjah Mada University Club, 10 Oktober 2017.
Mengenang Alfred Stepan, yang terkenal dalam wacana politik agama dengan gagasan "toleransi kembar", yang meninggal akhir bulan lalu.
NU mengalami pergulatan yang dinamis dengan Pancasila. Di awal perumusan Pancasila, NU menginginkan Islam sebagai dasar negara. Sikap ini berubah seiring perubahan rezim dan konfigurasi politik.
A reflection by Kelli Swazey from the Seren Taun event in West Java, on how for indigenous communities religion and culture are in an intertwined relation.
A summary and review by Kelli Swazey of the recent CRCS book by Samsul Maarif on Indonesian indigenous religions.
Refleksi dari pertemuan lintas agama dan masyarakat adat untuk pelestarian hutan hujan dalam acara Interfaith Rainforest Initiative (IRI) di Oslo, Norwegia, pada Juni 2017.
Laporan Kehidupan Beragama CRCS edisi pertama tahun 2017 mengenai kebebasan akademik di perguruan tinggi yang mendapat ancaman dari kelompok vigilantisme keagamaan.
Dalam diskursus modern, agama disebut sangat rentan terhadap kekerasan karena karakteristiknya yang "absolutis, divisive, dan irrasional". Benarkah klaim ini?
Tinjauan terhadap buku Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion (2015) karya Elizabeth Shakman Hurd.
Liputan diskusi bersama Prof. Heiner Bielefeldt di UGM, diadakan atas kerja sama CRCS, NCHR, dan DIAN/Interfidei.
Mengenang Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche yang meninggal karena membela dua perempuan muslimah di kereta komuter di Portland, Oregon, Amerika Serikat, dan merefleksikannya untuk Indonesia dan Amerika.
An interview with Prof. Imtiyaz Yusuf from Thailand's Mahidol University, currently a visiting professor teaching during intersession, at CRCS, on Muslims-Buddhists relations.
An interview with Prof. Imtiyaz Yusuf from Thailand's Mahidol University, currently a visiting professor teaching during intersession at CRCS, on Muslims-Buddhists relations.
A “Pancasila Reinterpreted” project is needed to answer an important question: Can Pancasila be more inclusive toward human rights and religious freedom?
In memoriam for Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche, a graduate of Reed College in Portland, Oregon, who was attacked on a commuter train in Portland on May 26th, 2017.
CRCS lecturer Greg Vanderbilt shares his reflections while visiting Christians in Indonesian peripheries observing their religious commemorations.
Tiga khilaf dalam memahami khilafah: (1) menganggapnya sebagai ajaran Islam yang mutlak; (2) menganggapnya sebagai satu-satunya konsep politik yang benar; (3) menganggapnya sebagai solusi segala persoalan. Ini liputan dari seminar yang diisi oleh Dr. Nadirsyah Hosen, dosen senior Monash University, Australia.
Yulianti | CRCS | Perspektif
Perayaan Waisak adalah salah satu hari besar umat Buddha untuk memperingati tiga peristiwa: hari lahir Sidharta Gotama (calon Buddha Gautama), momen Sidharta mendapatkan pencerahan ilmu, dan hari mangkatnya Buddha. Ketiga peristiwa ini terjadi pada bulan Waisak saat purnama.
Waisak dirayakan dalam berbagai bentuk dengan skala yang beragam. Denyut perayaan Waisak tidak hanya terasa di negara-negara berpenduduk mayoritas Buddha seperti Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, atau wilayah mainland Asia Tenggara lain. Negara-negara di mana agama Buddha tidak dipeluk mayoritas penduduknya seperti Indonesia pun menggemakan Waisak melalui acara-acara besar.
Sebagian dampak Pilkada DKI tak berhenti setelah pilkada usai. Meski berjalan sukses tanpa gugatan kecurangan, dan hasilnya diterima semua pihak, sulit merayakan keberhasilan itu dengan suka cita. Ia memang demokrasi, tapi dengan kualitas rendah, yang meninggalkan luka-luka serius.
Anthon Jason | CRCS | Wednesday Forum Report
In Indonesia, people can be called by their homeland’s name, such as orang Batak, orang Sunda, orang Manado and so on. The Indonesian concepts that are tied tightly to ideas of land, community, and cosmology referred to as adat have a dynamic and complex relationship to people’s religious identification and how they understand their identities. People can be emplaced or displaced in regard to how their religious identity relates to their cultural identification with particular places. While emplacement is the process by which people identify themselves with a place, displacement is a dislocation, removal, expropriation, takeover, or ideological process to refute claims of rights over land, the use of cultural symbols, or the ability of people and groups to self-identify.
Anang G Alfian | CRCS | Wednesday Forum Report
As a product of the globalized world, social media have created a virtual space of communication and interaction. Many people use it with enthusiasm as it helps humans build communication and connectivity much faster than ever before. On the other hand, many consider this phenomenon a challenge for living ethically and productively.
Dealing with this topic, Wednesday Forum on February 9th 2017 held a discussion on “wefies” (group self-portraits posted on social media) in relation to the Islamic concept of riya’ (showing off piety). The two speakers, Fatimah Husein, currently teaching at CRCS/ICRS as well as UIN Sunan Kalijaga, and Martin Slama of the Institute for Social Anthropology at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, presented the emerging phenomenon of online piety in Indonesia, especially on how Muslims rethink riya’ in today’s popular “wefie” culture. The presentation was based on Husein’s article titled “The Revival of Riya’: Displaying Muslim Piety Online in Indonesia” which has been submitted for a virtual issue of American Ethnologist and Slama’s research project on “Islamic (Inter)Faces of the Internet: Emerging Socialities and Forms of Piety in Indonesia” funded by the Austrian Science Fund.
Setelah Kunjungan Raja Saudi: Melawan Ekstremisme?
Azis Anwar Fachrudin – 7 Maret 2017
Di mata banyak orang, kunjungan Raja Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud boleh jadi menampakkan gestur yang positif. Namun satu hal yang tetap tak boleh terlupa ialah bahwa beberapa janji menunggu untuk segera dipenuhi. Satu pernyataan juga penting mendapat respons serius.
Setidaknya dua janji layak disebut di sini. Pertama, kompensasi terhadap korban cedera (42 orang) dan kelurga korban yang meninggal (12 orang) dari jamaah haji Indonesia dalam tragedi jatuhnya derek (crane) di Masjidil Haram pada 2015. Kedua, jaminan perlindungan terhadap Tenaga Kerja Indonesia di Arab Saudi, khususnya yang bekerja di sektor informal, serta penyelesaian dialogis dua negara untuk kasus 25 WNI yang terjerat pidana dengan ancaman hukuman mati.
Sebanyak 16 peserta, yakni 8 orang dari Jayapura dan 8 orang dari Merauke, mengikuti pelatihan yang diadakan CRCS dan Ilalang Institute.
Meta Ose Ginting | CRCS | WedForum Report
Going to the cinema is a new social practice in modern society. To some extent it can also be perceived as a spiritual practice. Dr Nacim Pak-Shiraz, the Head of Persian Studies and a Senior Lecturer in Persian and Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh and guest speaker at the Wednesday Forum on February 9th, studies this paradox in the dynamics of Iranian cinema. She began by noting that there has been only a little academic attention to the movies based on Quranic epics, in contrast to what has happened with Biblical epics from Hollywood.
Meta Ose Ginting | CRCS | WedForum Report
Jonathan Zilberg, a cultural anthropologist whose research and advocacy focuses on museum ethnography, argued that Indonesian museums face such problems as performance, transparency and accountability, but they have the potential power to promote pluralism to the public. In his February 1st Wednesday forum presentation, he raised questions as to how Indonesian museums can be a strong bond to serve Indonesia’s diversity.
Based on his research in National Museum of Indonesia in Central Jakarta, Zilberg argued that museums are an extension of culture and identity. He conducted his research by closely examining the activities of visitors of National Museum. He took photos from different angles and then reflected on how visitors interact with the objects on display. He stressed that a museum that functions well should be a place to learn and display democracy. Different people come to the museum with various interests. These differences can lead them to learn about pluralism in comfortable ways.
Samsul Maarif | CRCS | Perspektif
Ibu Bumi wis maringi (Ibu Bumi sudah memberi)
Ibu Bumi dilarani (Ibu Bumi disakiti)
Ibu Bumi kang ngadili (Ibu Bumi yang mengadili)
La ilaha illallah, Muhammadun rasulullah (3x)
Pada 20 Mei 2016, “Doa Nusantara” ini dilantunkan oleh ribuan warga Pati sebelum dan saat melakukan aksi jalan kaki (long march) sepanjang 20 kilometer dari Petilasan Nyai Ageng Ngerang di Kecamatan Tambakromo menuju alun-alun Kota Pati untuk mengajak semua pihak melestarikan pegunungan Kendeng. Lantunan doa itu kembali menggema pada aksi long march berikutnya yang menempuh 150 kilometer dari Rembang ke Semarang pada 5-8 Desember 2016.
Mereka datang menuntut Gubernur Jawa Tengah Ganjar Pranowo untuk mematuhi putusan Mahkamah Agung yang pada 5 Oktober 2016 telah mengabulkan Peninjuan Kembali (PK) gugatan mereka atas izin lingkungan kepada PT Semen Gresik (kemudian menjadi PT Semen Indonesia). Doa itu terlantun kembali oleh Gunretno, koordinator Jaringan Masyarakat Peduli Pegunungan Kendeng (JMPPK), pada acara MetroTV, “Mata Najwa: Bergerak Demi Hak”, 21 Desember 2016. Sebelumnya, pada 11-13 April 2016, sembilan “Kartini Kendeng” menyemen kakinya di depan Istana Negara.
Rangkaian unjuk rasa yang tidak biasa itu adalah bukti bahwa para petani sungguh merasa terancam oleh pembangunan pabrik semen di wilayah tempat mereka tinggal di sekitar pergunungan Kendeng—dan mereka sudah menolak pembangunan pabrik semen sejak 2006. Kesungguhan itu lahir dari tradisi yang mengakar di masyarakat lokal, yang di dunia akademik biasa disebut “ekologi adat”.
Praktik Ekologi Adat Kendeng
Ekologi adat adalah rangkaian praktik dan pengetahuan adat yang menekankan kesatuan dan kesaling-tergantungan manusia dan lingkungan, yang mencakup berbagai wujud seperti tanah, hutan, batu, air, gunung, binatang, dan lain-lain. Dalam ekologi adat, eksistensi dan jati diri manusia bergantung dan hanya dapat dipahami dalam konteks relasinya dengan lingkungannya. Keberlanjutan hidup manusia identik dengan kelestarian lingkungan, dan kerusakan lingkungan adalah kehancuran manusia.
Ekologi adat adalah penyesuaian dengan istilah-istilah yang sudah berkembang dalam literatur akademis, seperti indigenous ecology, local ecology, traditional ecology, dan seterusnya. Salah satu inti dari bangunan pengetahuan tersebut adalah bahwa ekologi bukan hanya rangkaian pengetahuan (body of knowledge), melainkan juga cara hidup (way of life) (McGregor 2004). Wajar saja jika Komisi Dunia untuk Lingkungan dan Pembangunan (World Commission on Environment and Development/WCED) sejak 30 tahun lalu menegaskan pentingnya masyarakat modern belajar dari pengetahuan dan pengalaman masyarakat lokal/adat terkait pengelolaan lingkungan (WCED 1987).
Fatwa MUI pada Desember 2016 tentang hukum menggunakan atribut non-muslim memerlukan sofistikasi argumen, rasionalisasi alasan, dan, di atas segalnya, kesadaran akan semangat zaman yang berubah.
M Rizal Abdi | CRCS | News
Nowadays, religion frequently becomes a major source of violence, exclusion and misunderstanding. Almost every week, conflicts among religious people or institutions appear in the headlines. However, religion can also be catalyst for peace and harmony, reconciliation and social justice. At the same time, the state’s fundamental position in matters of religious policies also plays a significant role in managing the diversity. With these concerns in mind, the Centre for Research and Development of Religious Life (CRDRL) of The Ministry of Religious Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia (MORA) held “International Symposium of Religious Life (ISRL) 2016: Managing Diversity, Fostering Harmony” at Sari Pan Pacific Hotel, Jakarta on 5-7 October 2016. Bringing together researchers, activists, policy makers, and scholars of religious studies, the symposium was expected to offer opportunities for new ideas in developing religious studies as well as a variety of new formats for achieving harmonious religious life in plural society. “As the Ministry of Religious Affairs, we hope that this symposium might give us recommendations for implementing the vision of Indonesia diversity,” said Prof. Dr. Phil. Amin Kamaruddin, General Director of Islamic Education, representing the Minister of Religious Affairs.
Following keynote addresses by Prof. Azyumardi Azra (UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta), Prof. Robert W. Hefner (Boston University), and Prof. Gamal Farouq Jibril (Al-Azhar University, Cairo) who presented their fruitful insights in the plenary session, more than 100 participants from various backgrounds and countries attended the forum. The participants were rigorously selected based on their abstracts from hundreds of submissions from Indonesia and around the region. Three current CRCS students were invited to become participants in this forum. Azis Anwar Fachruddin from the 2014 batch delivered a paper entitled “Indonesia’s Indigenous Belief and Modern Construction of Religion” which challenged the paradigm of “world religions” in constructing the religion definition in Indonesia. The paper by Ali Ja’far from the 2015 batch was entitled “Promoting Religious Tolerance through Religious Tourism: Managing Religious and Ethno-Political Conflict in Tuban.” It gives alternative perspective of tourism as “dialog of hand” (practical measures) in reconciliation of ethno-religious and political conflicts. M Rizal Abdi from the 2015 batch discussed the issue on negotiation of space and place in pilgrimage studies when he presented his ongoing research entitled, “Tembayat Pilgrimage as Space of Harmony: Exchanging Symbols, Negotiating Spaces.”
In addition to the three current students, seven CRCS alumni also took part in the symposium: Achmad Zainal Arifin (2000), lecturer in Sociology program in UIN Sunan Kalijaga; Erik Sabti Rahmawati (2001), lecturer in Syariah Faculty UIN Maulana Malik Ibrahim; Ubed Abdillah (2001), lecturer of General Education in Buddhi Dharma University Tangerang; Elis Z. Anis (2001), Financial Development Executive at the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS); Al Khanif (2004), lecturer and director of Research Institute of Human Right, Faculty of Law, Jember University Indonesia; A. Syamsu Madyan (2004), lecturer of Islamic Studies at the Graduate School of Unisma Malang; and Achmad Fawaid (2012), a lecturer of IAI Nurul Jadid Paiton Probolinggo.
“The issues that were elaborated on in plenary and panel sessions looks like extended versions of our daily discussions in the classroom at CRCS,” said Jafar. At the same time, the symposium also helped student in finding cutting-edge discourse on religious studies research. “The discussants were quite critical but the discussions enriched the research questions as well as refined my analysis,” Abdi remarked after his presentation. The participation of ten CRCS students and alumni in this international symposium not only shows CRCS’s remarkable academic track records in religious studies but also demonstrates the continuous efforts of CRCS’s big family in building bridges in the world of diversity.
Negotiating Women’s Modesty in the Gendered Dynamics of Minang Society
M Rizal Abdi | CRCS | Wednesday Forum Report
The woman knelt down, supporting her body wrapped in traditional Minang cloth. She held a microphone that echoed her reedy singing and reverberated with the sound of flute from the man next to her. Suddenly, the sound of electronic music rushed in, disrupting the serene and heartbreaking melody with the upbeat dangdut rhythm. Still kneeling down and the female singer continued her sad singing with contradictory backsound as if it is synchronized to each other.
“Two decades ago, this wouldn’t be happening,” said Jennifer A. Fraser, Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology and Anthropology from Oberlin College, US. The contradictory yet fascinating scene above was shown during Fraser’s presentation in CRCS-ICRS Wednesday Forum on Wednesday, 8th August 2016. Entitling her presentation “Playing with Men: Female Singers, Porno Lyrics, and the Male Gaze in a Sumatran Vocal Genre”, Fraser shared her latest findings on Saluang Jo Dendang (literally flute with song), one of the Minangkabau music arts which is celebrated for its refined poetry based on allusions and its sad songs that induce tears in a listener. Using ethnographic research in West Sumatra dating from 1998, she tracked the gendered dynamics and increasingly sexualized interactions between female singers and their male audiences. In the 1960s, Saluang Jo Dendang was predominantly a male performance. Based on Minangkabau Islamic modesty, it was not considered appropriate for women to attend such an exclusively male event, let alone become the center of attention. The only possibility for a woman to participate as a performer was when her husband was the flute player. However, by the 1990’s, women started to displace men as the singer or pededang so that nowadays male pedendang are extremely rare. In fact, as one of male singers admitted, no one wants to listen to a male pedendang anymore.
Moreover, Fraser showed that there are shifting relations between the padendang and pagurau or attendees. In the past, with male singers, the pagurau usually listened to the song and fell into deep reflection on the lyrics. Sometimes the pagurau could also make song requests to the padendang directly. Nowadays, the pagurau usually tease or seduce the padendang by throwing some off-color jokes or requesting particular themes like divorce, asking for marriage, or other private matters. However, according to Fraser, the porno lyrics in the saluang performance refer to something different from the common understanding of pornography. Rather than explicitly using sexual vocabulary, most of lyrics categorized as porno by the audiences refer to anatomical description through allusion that tends to be not harmful but playful. For example,
Kami sangat berterima kasih atas partisipasi para aplikan untuk mengikuti seleksi peserta Sekolah Pengelolaan Keragaman (SPK) angkatan ke-VIII yang diselenggarakan oleh Program Studi Agama dan Lintas Budaya (Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies/CRCS, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Yogyakarta. Kami menerima banyak sekali aplikasi dari berbagai daerah di Indonesia dengan kualitas yang sangat kompetitif, dari beragam latar belakang profesi dan beragam isu yang diusung. Namun kami hanya memilih 25 orang peserta dengan mempertimbangkan berbagai aspek seperti: keragaman isu, gender, kemampuan melakukan riset, keterwakilan daerah, potensi membentuk jaringan advokasi, dan akses terhadap pengetahuan.
“How could a bloody and cruel crucifixion become the core of Christianity’s love and compassion?”
Ashabul Fitnah dan Kehancuran Sebuah Bangsa, Pelajaran dari Suriah
M. Iqbal Ahnaf – 7 Maret 2016
Ketika baru-baru ini seorang ‘ustadz’ di laman facebooknya memosting gambar Imam Besar Universitas Al-Azhar sedang berciuman dengan Paus Fransiskus banyak orang langsung menuduh bahwa sang ustadz sedang menyebar fitnah. Setelah dilaporkan ke polisi atas tuduhan mencemarkan nama baik, sang ustadz tidak bisa mengelak; seakan mengakui telah menyebar foto palsu ia segera menghapus alat fitnah tersebut dari laman facebooknya. Tapi ironisnya ia tidak mengakui kesalahannya, tetapi justru menyampaikan bahwa ia memosting foto tersebut dengan ‘niat baik’ mengingatkan umat Islam agar menolak upaya berdamai dengan penganut Syiah sebagaimana pesan Sang Imam.
M Rizal Abdi | CRCS | Book Review
Menandai sebuah usia dengan penerbitan sebuah buku bukanlah hal baru di dunia akademik. Boleh jadi hampir setiap pusat studi dan fakultas melakukannya meski tak ajeg, misal dua tahunan atau per lustrum. Bahkan, perayaan ulang tahun seorang professor di masa paruh bayanya kini kurang sahih tanpa penerbitan sebuah karya. Namun, di tengah gempita penerbitan itu, patut dicatat sejauh mana penerbitan buku tersebut tidak sekadar berhenti pada glorifikasi pribadi atau instansi tetapi juga berkontribusi bagi bidang studi yang ia naungi.
Wacana keislaman di Indonesia mutakhir sedang semarak dengan diskusi mengenai hubungan dialektis antara Islam, keindonesiaan, dan kemodernan. Mulai muncul kehendak untuk menghadirkan corak keislaman yang tak kehilangan identitas kebudayaan lokal, sekaligus bersifat kontekstual dan menzaman.
Tolikara, Idul Fitri 2015: Tentang Konflik Agama, Mayoritas-Minoritas dan Perjuangan Tanah Damai
Tim Penulis CRCS – 19 Juli 2015
Suasana Idul Fitri di Kabupaten Tolikara, Papua terusik dengan berita kerusuhan yang menyebabkan satu orang meninggal dan belasan terluka karena tembakan aparat; serta puluhan kios dan sebuah musholla di dekatnya dibakar (menurut satu versi, musholla bukan target utama tapi ikut terbakar). Sejauh ini telah muncul berita dari beberapa sumber, yang sebagian tampaknya masih perlu diverifikasi. Namun, sebagian lain, sayangnya, dalam keterbatasan informasi yang ada kini, sudah “menggoreng” berita itu untuk melakukan provokasi lebih jauh, hingga ke tingkat menggiring isu ini menjadi konflik kekerasan antara Kristen dan Muslim—bukan hanya di Tolikara, tapi Papua, bahkan jangkauannya diperluas hingga Indonesia, mungkin juga ada yang memperluasnya untuk berbicara mengenai Muslim-Kristen di dunia!
Berbagai Pertanyaan Seputar Beasiswa dan Pendaftaran CRCS
A. BEASISWA
Bagaimana tata cara pendaftaran beasiswa CRCS? (Diperbarui 2025)
When natural disasters occurred, a fundamental question after information about the scene, the victim and material loss, is why and how the disaster happened. However, not infrequently also the victims of religious identity has always been associated in the news. For instance, we have not forgotten the tsunami disaster in Indonesia hitting Aceh in December 2004 with the majority of Muslim community. A few weeks earlier, an earthquake occurred in Alor, East Nusa Tenggara, which is predominantly Christian. The religious identity affects the response and post-disaster relief distribution. Implicitly, it shows how the relationship between religion and disasters as a shaper of social reality in the study of disasters in Indonesia.
Professor Ricklefs is a historian who is expert in Indonesia; some of his texts have been read Indonesian and Indonesian scholars. Here is an interview between a CRCS student (Hatib Abdul Kadir) with Ricklefs about the polirazation of Javanese society, starting from the beginning of Islam in the 14th century in Indonesia, the emergence of the term abangan in the 19th century, until the political constellation of religious events ant the future of religious polarization of the Indonesian people. This interview would be enjoyed more for those who had read Polarizing Javanese Society: Islamic and Other Visions (C. 1830-1930) (2007), one of Prof. Ricklefs ambitious books. Here is the interview.”
Teks-teks religius dan Poskolonialisme adalah topik utama Wednesday Forum minggu ini. Pembicara dalam forum ini adalah Dr. Elaine Kay Swartzentruber. Kami mengundang Anda sekalian untuk bergabung dan mendiskusikan lebih lanjut tentang topik tersebut. Adapun informasi lainnya mengenai Wednesday Forum minggu ini dapat dibaca seperti di bawah ini.
Hari/tanggal: Rabu, 8 April 2009
Waktu: 12.30 ? 14.30 WIB (makan siang gratis)
Tempat: Room 306, UGM Graduate School Teknika Utara Pogung
Pembicara: Dr. Elaine Kay Swartzentruber
