PLURALISME AGAMA DAN KONFLIK

Priyono Priyono (Office of Religious Research and Development Ministry of Religious Affairs Semarang Indonesia)

Analisa: Journal of Social Science and Religion
Vol 15, No 02 (2008): Analisa : Jurnal Pengkajian Masalah Sosial Keagamaan

Indonesians generally claim as religious nation. History showedthat Indonesian is a nation with rich races, tribes, ethnics, cultures, cus­tom, and religions. That richness is a gift from God so human beingscould organize and maintain their harmony in order to respect and ap­preciate one another in their diversity.Religions and beliefs such as Islam, Christian, Catholics, Hindu­ism, Buddha and other believe ideologies educate human beings to dogood things (ikhsan) among human being, between members of a reli­gious community, and among members of various religious communi­ties.Efforts needed to keep away tension and conflict in daily life ofmembers of a religious community and among members of various reli­gious communities are to implement and to apply their own tenets, tocreate dialog among various religious community in leader level or ingrassroots level regularly. In addition, to collect various thoughts andopinions of different group of people that care of religious role in solv­ing current social problems.