The fourth edition of CFAF (CRCS Friday Afternoon Forum) will be held on Friday, October 26, 2007, at 15:30-17:00, in Graduate School Building, third floor, room 306, Gadjah Mada University. The key speaker in the discussion will be Suhadi, M.A. The theme in the discussion will be ?Muslim-non-Muslim Marriage:An Indonesian Town Style?.

This discussion will present findings of a legal anthropology research on Muslim-non-Muslim marriage in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. At the first level, the issues are around survey about a number of Muslim-non-Muslim marriages in Yogyakarta, law of Muslim-non-Muslim marriage, and voices of ulama on Muslim-non-Muslim marriage. In the process of rigidifying Muslim-non-Muslim marriage law, the study develops on two other levels: (a) patterns of resistance among the ?local? ulama- the ummah toward the ?center? ulama/Islamic mass organization and; (b) patterns of resistance from Yogyakarta?s citizens toward state administrative regulations on inter-religious marriage prohibition. At this level, the presentation will show how people of the grass root level act against the state regulation by creating such kinds of administrative manipulations. As an ethnographic study, the research also will explore how the couples face challenges from the families, how they over come the problems raised by the civil-religious law, and how they educate religions to their children. The goal of this study is to look into the trends of religious freedom in Indonesia through the state regulation on inter-religious marriage and its practices in the society.

The fourth edition of CFAF (CRCS Friday Afternoon Forum) will be held on Friday, October 26, 2007, at 15:30-17:00, in Graduate School Building, third floor, room 306, Gadjah Mada University. The key speaker in the discussion will be Suhadi, M.A. The theme in the discussion will be

The third edition of CFAF (CRCS Friday Afternoon Forum) will be held on Friday, October 5, 2007, at 15:00-16:30, in Graduate School Building, third floor, room 306, Gadjah Mada University. The key speaker in the discussion will be Philip King, PhD. The theme in the discussion will be ?Thai-Malay Relations in Southern Thailand: Beyond the Conflict Narrative?.

News reports from the fourth southern provinces of Thailand seem to be a solemn reminder of the dismal state of inter-religious and inter-ethnic relations in southern Thailand. After the relatively positive decade of the 1990’s, the current conflict has served to revive mainstream Thai-Buddhist suspicions of the Malay south, a feeling that is reciprocated by large portions of southern Malays who have lived under martial law for a number of years.

The third edition of CFAF (CRCS Friday Afternoon Forum) will be held on Friday, October 5, 2007, at 15:00-16:30, in Graduate School Building, third floor, room 306, Gadjah Mada University. The key speaker in the discussion will be Philip King, PhD. The theme in the discussion will be

Communist China’s officially atheist ideology is the cause of China’s destruction of the environment; because the atheist Chinese Communists are unwilling to submit humbly to any Truth which contradicts theirown personal superstitions of “economic development”. Communist China is – paradoxically – a very anti-scientific government, believing in its own Marxist-materialist-atheist superstitions even when they contradict science. That is why the material conditions, and the environment and ecology, of China are such a mess today – because of China’s superstitious materialism, because of the Communist Party’s refusal to submit to any higher Truth.

At the end of Agustus 2007, CRCS held a discussion about academic writing at CRCS. The key speaker was Niswatin Faoziah, a graduate student of Sanatha Dharma University. She did research about CRCS Students