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Does religion help the environmental cause in Indonesia and around the world?

HeadlineNewsPerspective Tuesday, 11 April 2017

Jonathan D Smith | CRCS | Essay

Indonesia is home to many environmental movements, either led by established environmental activists or by groups of indigenous people. The reclamation project in Benoa Bay, cement mining in Kendeng area, Central Java, and the Save Aru movement are just a few recent examples. Does religion play a role in these movements? Are these local movements related to the growing global environmental movement?
The local and global is a crucial element of environmental movements, because environmental problems defy boundaries. Our rapidly-changing climate poses an urgent challenge that is both global and local. As national governments slowly acknowledge their role in reducing carbon emissions (with some exceptions), local communities in Indonesia are living with the problems of rising temperatures and sea levels, increases in natural disasters, and increasing pollution of our air and water.
Local-global connections in religious environmental movements
In 2016 at the climate summit in Morocco, governments met to affirm their adoption of the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement. Signed by 111 countries (as of November 2016), the agreement commits to reducing carbon emissions and recognizes the human impact on climate change. At the same climate summit in Marrakech, hundreds of religious leaders and environmental activists launched the Interfaith Climate Statement.
The Interfaith Climate Statement included these words:

My House is Your House: Faith Communities Supporting Syrian Refugees in Jordan

HeadlineNewsWednesday Forum News Saturday, 11 March 2017


Abstract
Since 2011, 5 million Syrians have fled civil war in their country. Most of these refugees live in local communities in neighboring countries. Local faith communities and global humanitarian actors regularly work together to provide assistance for Syrian refugees. This talk presents research about Arab and Western Christians providing support for Syrian refugees living in Jordan, based on fieldwork conducted in 2015-16. The talk addresses three questions raised in literature about faith-based organizations working in humanitarian and development projects: 1) Do religious groups approach aid differently from non-religious (secular) organizations?; 2) What is the role of local faith communities in providing humanitarian aid?; 3) How do religious groups providing aid manage religious difference and deal with challenges of proselytization?
Speaker
Jonathan D. Smith is a PhD student in Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom. His research focuses on faith-based organizations in the Middle East and their effect on Muslim-Christian relations. He is currently conducting research at CRCS about religion and environmental social movements.
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A M P A T Baru kemarin, pemerintah YTTA melakukan A M P A T
Baru kemarin, pemerintah YTTA melakukan aksi simsalabim dengan mencabut empat konsesi tambang di salah satu gugusan Red Line. Aksi "heroik" itu terlihat janggal ketika perusahaan yang paling bermasalah dalam perusakan lingkungan, bahkan yang menjadi pusat viral, justru dilindungi. Tentu bukan karena cocokologi dengan nama Raja Ampat sehingga hanya empat perusahaan yang dicabut konsesinya. Bukan cocokologi juga ketika Raja Ampat akan menjadi lokus tesis yang akan diuji esok di CRCS UGM. Berkebalikan dengan aksi badut jahat di Raja Ampat, @patricia_kabes akan bercerita bagaimana komunitas masyarakat di Aduwei mengelola laut dengan lestari melalui sasi. Berangkat dari negeri timur, peraih beasiswa LPDP ini justru menjadi yang pertama di angkatannya untuk menambahkan dua huruf pada akhir namanya.
For people who learn religious studies, it is comm For people who learn religious studies, it is common to say that "religion", as a concept and category, is Western modern invention. It is European origin, exported globally through colonialism and Christian mission. Despite its noble intention to decolonize modern social categories, it suffers from historical inaccuracy. Precolonial Islamic Malay and Javanese texts in the 16th and 17th century reflect a strong sense of reified religion, one whose meaning closely resembles the modern concept.

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I N S P I R A S I Secara satir, penyandang disabil I N S P I R A S I
Secara satir, penyandang disabilitas baru mendapatkan sorotan ketika dia mampu berprestasi, mampu mengatasi segala rintangan dan kekurangan. Singkat kata, penyandang disabilitas kemudian menjadi sumber inspirasi bagi nondisabilitas. Budi Irawanto menyebutnya sebagai "inspirational porn". Simak ulasan lengkapnya di situs web crcs ugm.
Human are the creature who live between the mounta Human are the creature who live between the mountain and the sea. Yet, human are not the only one who live between the mountain and the sea. Human are the one who lives by absorbing what above and beneath the mountain and the sea. Yet, human are the same creature who disrupt and destroy the mountain, the sea, and everything between. Not all human, but always human. By exploring what/who/why/and how the life between the mountain and the sea is changing, we learn to collaborate and work together, human and non-human, for future generation—no matter what you belief, your cultural background.

Come and join @wednesdayforum with Arahmaiani at UGM Graduate School building, 3rd floor. We provide snacks and drinks, don't forget to bring your tumbler. This event is free and open to public.
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