| Title | : | Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) and Peace Education: Exploration on Peace Process Toward a Sustainable Development in Post-Conflict Area of North Maluku |
| Author | : | Agung Gunansyah (CRCS, 2005) |
| Keywords | : | Reconciliation, Peace Educators, Spiritual Intelligence |
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| North Maluku is one of the areas that has been relatively progressive in the recovery process after a severe civil conflict in 1999 but it seems that there is still the possibility of returning outbreak of violence conflict. This research tries to reveal the conditions of the peace process that happened in North Maluku, the challenges in the future reconciliation and the SQ (spiritual intelligence) condition of Peace Educators as the party who take up main role in educating children to overcome the negative effect of the conflict as well as preparing society to face the challenge/potentiality of conflict in the future. SQ, which is related to meaning, values, creative vision, and the most important thing: the power to transform, has an important role in creating a foundation for a genuine peace process. Exploring SQ, then, will give the ability to observe the capacity to learn from the past conflict, to have forgiveness, tolerance, justice, nonviolence, and a vision of a peaceful community.The research found that the community indeed had some coping mechanism to overcome the tremendous effect of the traumatic experience, such us humor, religious life and the communal life of the society. However, true reconciliation has not yet happened since it seems that there are skipped steps in the process of moving out from the cycle of violence and developing true reconciliation. The existing ethnic and religion fanaticism, post-conflict trauma, the unveiled root cause of the conflict, and sense of vengeance, besides economy and politic factors are the current problem of the society. Most of them choose to forget as a way of forgiving. At the end, the community has not succeeded yet in developing a mechanism to learn from the past conflict as a way to transform their relationship. Moreover, they face a critical situation for developing values and systems that will guarantee sustainable peace in North Maluku. Exploration of spiritual intelligence of the Peace Educators has found some good qualities of spiritual intelligence that they have. Yet, it is not on the level to have the capacity to take up the duty of developing mechanism to learn from the past conflict. |
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Title: Baha’i: A Narrative of Minority Religion in Indonesia (A Case Study in Banyuwangi, East Java)
Author: Amanah Nurish (CRCS, 2010)
Keywords: Religion, Baha’i, identity, and minority
Abstract:
This research is addressed on the Baha’i community in Banyuwangi East Java, Indonesia. Baha’i is a minority religion propagated by Bahaullah1 who was from Persia (now Iran). This research is based on the life history of the author while living among Baha’is and Muslims for several years. It discusses the Baha’i issue of the minority survival in the face of violence and pressure from majority groups in Indonesian society, particularly in the village of Canga’an, Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia. The village population is approximately 7000, of which majority people are Muslims and another small group in the village is Baha’i adherent.
| Title | : | The Perspective of Islamic Ethics on Abortion in the Case of Rape and Premarital Pregnancy |
| Author | : | Arief Aulia Rachman (CRCS, 2009) |
| Keywords | : | Islamic Ethics, Islamic Law (Fiqh), Ushul Fiqh, Abortion, Rape and Premarital pregnancy |
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| This thesis aims to determine and analyze the cases of abortion with the motive of rape and premarital pregnancy through the perspective of Islamic ethics. Islamic ethics is a framework to analyze abortion cases that become a middle course between normative (Islamic law) and non-normative decisions, taking into account the textual basis and the context of what happened. In addressing the above issues, this thesis focuses on the questions as follows: a) how is the formulation and the ethics concepts in Islam as a scientific framework and its own perspective?; b) how and what are the factors causing the abortion with a motive of rape and premarital pregnancies?; c) how is the Islamic ethics perspectives of abortion cases are caused by a motive of rape and premarital pregnancies. This thesis also discusses differences in the perspective or understanding of the Islamic ethics of abortion as Shafi, Maliki, Hanbali, and Hanafi, and the view of the Council of Indonesian Ulama (MUI). So, the existence of fundamental disagreements between the pro-life and pro-choice to the abortion cases. The point of ethical theory and Islamic ethics which are discussed in this thesis is intended to find a systematic flow of thought in explaining the theory of Islamic ethics. Because, basically general conception of ethics emphasis the definition of ethical concepts, justification or assessment of the moral decisions, as well as distinguish between the actions or decisions good and bad. Based on the matter, the thesis is a normative research. The point is based on case studies of social or communal cases such as the abortion, and then analyzed by using the basis and the perspective of Islamic ethics. This thesis come to several findings namely: first, the Islamic ethics as a framework to determine reasonable perspective or ratio proportion are not far to the existence of revelation and it has an authority to criticize revelation while there is no clear legal provisions. Second, the abortion is influenced by various factors such as sexual violence, psychological pressure on these women, the medical effects such as pregnant women are suffering physical and mental illness, social counter the very strong to the unwanted pregnancies cases, and inaccurate interpretation and misuse of religious doctrine. Third, Islamic ethics assumes that the abortion of rape is ethical because the women under sexual coercion and violence which unwanted, whereas the motive of premarital pregnancies, as his ethical woman must resposible and save her pregnancy as a logical consequence for her actions. |
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| Title | : | Theology of Success and Spiritual Capital: the Study of Success Theology of Church Bethany Indonesia – Surabaya from the Perspective of Spiritual Capital in the Context of Indonesia |
| Author | : | Cindy Quartyamina Koan (CRCS, 2008) |
| Keywords | : | Indonesia Bethany Church, Theology of Success and Spiritual Capital |
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| Indonesia Bethany Church is a manifest of a successful church organization especially in Indonesia even in South East Asia. The root of that success is Abraham Alex Tanuseputra’s life story. He is the founder of the Bethany church as one with Successful Bethany Families motto. The success gave the appearance merely not within spiritual services but expands to physical world services such as finance, education, medical, entertainment, occupation include the economic activities for instance advertising and trading. Those services become the magnet which successfully attracts the Christian’s interest. The alteration from many Christian to be the Bethany’s parishioners is the indicator of Indonesia Bethany Church succeeds.
Deliberating about the success of Indonesia Bethany Church, immediately guide to theology of success as a doctrinal and practical foundation for all Bethany’s activities. Bethany’s theology of success reveals that God desired every Christians lives successfully means having whole excellent thing not the reverse yet somehow, increasingly into abundantly life. That is the successive lives which noticeable and measured as well embrace spiritual and material world. Spiritually pointing to obey the desire of God then materially develop into wealthy. Eventually, realization of the success depends on the success of material world where the stipulation is that every parishioner must be struggling to accomplish the wealthy life. Furthermore, Response to this, I would like to explore the strengths and weaknesses of the teaching of the theology of success by using the concept of Spiritual Capital from Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall. Principally, the terms spiritual and capital do not refer only to religions and merely physical capital. Furthermore, it is about divine values, motivations and principals that are convinced as true and able to produce a broad good impact for humanity and nature. In brief, Spiritual Capital tries to create economic activities without being self-oriented and make encounter between spiritualism and capitalism or economy. Indeed, we cannot deny that success is every person’s whish, therefore any theory which are including in the theology of success play big important role in creating the welfare for human, living beings and nature which not individualistic. For this reason, theology of success should be a theology that concern toward the reality of social lives whereas every parishioner are part of society. |
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| Title | : | Concept and Practice of Islamic Education in SDIT Alam Nurul Islam Yogyakarta |
| Author | : | Eka Farantina (CRCS, 2010) |
| Keywords | : | Islamic education, theory, practices |
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| This research aims to acknowledge deeply, theory and Islamic education practices at SDIT (Integrated Islamic Elementary School) Alam Nurul Islam, Yogyakarta. This is interesting because SDIT Alam Nurul Islam proposes nondichotomy curriculum between Islamic education and general education. The next reason is because SDIT Alam Nurul Islam promotes student centered learning, concept “one earth, one world”, and learning from reality which similar to the concept of Paulo Freire, Hans Kung, and John Dewey.
This study answers three questions. First, what are the theories of Islamic education at SDIT Alam Nurul Islam? Second, what are the practices of Islamic education at SDIT Alam Nurul Islam? This research uses qualitative naturalistic approach to understand and interpret ate the perspectives of informant about their world. The data was gathered from observation and in depth interview involving the headmaster of the school and a teacher from the school who is a staff of JSIT in Yogyakarta. The data analysis was done by open coding. The data validation was achieved by triangulation techniques. The study shows two results. First, the basic of education concept at SDIT Alam Nurul Islam is turning human beings back to the basic goal of human creation: to be an abdullah and a khalifatullah. Second, the practices of education at SDIT Alam Nurul Islam are based on the concepts of education at there. The learning program improved from the vision as ‘abdullah and khalifatullah by integrating knowledges and religion. Students have more time to learn from nature, as a part of learning from reality. |
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Judul: Masyarakat Toleran: Budaya Demokrasi dan Partisipasi Politik (Studi Kasus Perilaku Politik Umat Islam Jekulo Kudus Pasca Orde Baru)
Penulis: Achmad Ta’yudin (CRCS, 2005)
Kata-kata Kunci: muslim taat, budaya demokrasi, partisipasi politik, budaya toleran
Abstrak:
Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan perilaku politik masyarakat Islam di Kecamatan Jekulo Kudus pada Pemilu 1999 dan 2004, di mana partai-partai Islam dengan kecenderungan religiusitas masyarakat yang tinggi menuai kekalahan telak. Pertanyaan yang muncul kemudian adalah, “Kenapa masyarakat Islam Jekulo yang mempunyai tingkat religiusitas relatif tinggi, enggan untuk memilih partai-partai politik yang mengadopsi Islam sebagai pijakan ideologinya”. Pertanyaan menarik tersebut menjadi fokus penelitian ini.