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Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies
ISSN : -     EISSN : 2985301X     DOI : https://doi.org/10.59029/int
Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies (INT) is an open access journal that includes multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary religious studies in the field of interfaith dialogue and peace studies. Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies is part of the Open Integrity Program, an experiential and interactive program that uses the wisdom of the Open Integrity approach. The program is designed to develop skills, knowledge, and attitudes that bring to life the values of wisdom from different faiths and religions to build peace in a contemporary pluralistic world. This scientific journal (INT) focuses on an in-depth study of religious beliefs and traditions as well as interfaith dialogical relationships that influence contemporary social realities in the social dynamics of society, including: (1) research focused on the uniqueness in religious beliefs and traditions found in religious texts and best-practices of social aspects of religious experience and practice in society; (2) research that builds a broader awareness and understanding of the potential for promoting peace that is evident in dialogue between people of different faith traditions.
Articles 56 Documents
Social Construction of Inclusive Education as Peace Practice in Islamic Schooling Gymnastiar, Iman Ahmad; Ambarnis, Annisaa
Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies Vol. 4 No. 2 (2025): Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59029/int.v4i2.72

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This study aims to explain how inclusive education practices at Cendekia Muda Universal Islamic School, Bandung, West Java, contribute to building a culture of peace through the social processes formed in the daily interactions of the school community. The analysis focuses on how Islamic-based values, relationships, and school programs shape inclusive social identities, particularly for students with special needs. This research employs a qualitative approach through participant observation, in-depth interviews with the principal, teachers, and students from Grades X–XII, as well as document analysis. The findings demonstrate that peace values are constructed through inclusive routines that normalize differences, foster peer support, and reduce social distance among students. Islamic religious programs such as Friday Reflections, akhlak mentoring, and cross-identity dialogue serve as key arenas for reconstructing stereotypes, strengthening empathy, and expanding social solidarity. In addition, collaboration among the principal, teachers, the inclusion coordinator, parents, and students creates a coherent and supportive educational ecosystem that nurtures open-minded, egalitarian, and cooperative student character. This study concludes that an inclusion model grounded in Islamic values holds transformative potential for cultivating sustainable peace within schools. As its original contribution, this research proposes the concept of “inclusivity as a peace practice” within Islamic schooling—an area still rarely explored in Indonesian sociology of education.
KRITIK KONSEPTUAL ATAS TERMINOLOGI ISLAM NUSANTARA: KAJIAN LEKSIKAL DAN HISTORIS DALAM WACANA STUDI AGAMA Haqq, Muhammad Valiyyul
Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies Vol. 4 No. 2 (2025): Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59029/int.v4i2.74

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This study critically examines the term Islam Nusantara as a key concept in Indonesia’s discourse on Islamic moderation. Nahdlatul Ulama popularized the term to articulate a form of Islam that integrates Islam’s universal values with local cultural contexts. This study aims to assess the conceptual precision of Islam Nusantara by analyzing its lexical and historical implications, given its expanding use across religious discourse, academic debates, and public policy. The study employs a qualitative approach grounded in lexical-semantic analysis and historical-conceptual inquiry. It draws on library research by conducting a critical reading of religious texts, organizational documents, public speeches, and academic literature that represent the pro-and-con debates surrounding Islam Nusantara. First, at the lexical level, the phrase Islam Nusantara contains inherent ambiguity because its grammatical structure permits an attributive reading—Islam that is Nusantaran—which can prompt audiences to interpret it as a particular variant or typology of Islam rather than as a designation of the geographic and cultural context of Islamic practice. Second, at the historical level, the narratives that sustain the term tend to treat Javanese–Malay Islam as the dominant representation of Islam in the archipelago, thereby obscuring the plurality of routes, agents, and Islamic traditions across Indonesia’s islands. Third, at the discursive level, Islam Nusantara functions primarily as a discursive strategy and a project of religious identity through which actors articulate Islamic moderation in the context of nationhood and globalization, rather than as a stable normative theological category. These findings underscore the need for conceptual caution in deploying religious terminology so that it does not generate semantic reduction or symbolic exclusion. The study’s original contribution lies in formulating a framework for terminological critique that positions Islam Nusantara as an arena of meaning negotiation between Islam’s universality and cultural locality, while opening space for the development of a concept of Islamic moderation that is more academically precise and historically inclusive.
From Institutional Authority to Digital Actors: The Transformation of Interfaith Dialogue in the Digital Technology Era Philips, Gerardette
Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies Vol. 4 No. 2 (2025): Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59029/int.v4i2.75

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The rapid development of digital technology has fundamentally transformed the landscape of interfaith dialogue, reshaping not only patterns of communication among religious communities but also the distribution of religious authority and the formation of religious public spheres. This study aims to systematically examine how digital transformation—through social media, artificial intelligence, and online ecosystems—reconfigures the practices, actors, and meanings of interfaith dialogue in the contemporary era. This research is particularly significant given the growing role of digital technology as both a medium and a mediating structure of religious dialogue, which generates new opportunities while simultaneously raising complex ethical, epistemological, and theological challenges. This study adopts a qualitative approach through the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) method by examining journal articles, conference proceedings, and academic books published between 2020 and 2024 and sourced from reputable international databases. The analysis follows stages of systematic selection, thematic coding, and conceptual synthesis to identify major patterns of findings, shifts in authority, and theoretical tendencies within the scholarship on digital interfaith dialogue. The findings indicate that digital platforms significantly expand the space for interfaith dialogue by enhancing inclusivity, accessibility, and participation across geographical and institutional boundaries. At the same time, this transformation accompanies a shift in religious authority from institutional structures toward decentralized digital actors, including religious content creators and artificial intelligence–based systems that function as epistemic mediators. On the other hand, the study also reveals serious challenges, such as algorithmic bias, disinformation, the commodification of religious practices, and increasing dependence on AI-based dialogue systems, all of which risk reducing the depth of theological reflection and the overall quality of interfaith engagement. The implications of this study underscore the urgency of developing a prophetic and theological approach as a normative framework for responding to digital transformation. Such an approach positions religious communities as critical actors in shaping digital ethics, strengthening technological literacy, and fostering cross-sector collaboration with technology stakeholders. The originality of this study lies in its critical synthesis that integrates interfaith dialogue studies, digital religion, and artificial intelligence within a single analytical framework, thereby enriching the conceptual understanding of religious studies amid global digital transformation.
Christian Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr in the Multipolar Geopolitical Crisis of the Twenty-First Century R. F. Bhanu Viktorahadi; Martha Gabriela Hernández
Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies Vol. 5 No. 1 (2026): Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59029/int.v5i1.77

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This study analyzes Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian Realism as a framework of political ethics for addressing the multipolar geopolitical crisis of the twenty-first century. The study emerges from the limitations of mainstream international relations theories, such as realism, liberalism, constructivism, and critical geopolitics, which have not adequately provided a normative foundation for responding to global conflicts, structural injustice, neoliberalism, and contemporary digital geopolitics. The study employs a qualitative approach based on library research and focuses on theological and hermeneutical analyses of Reinhold Niebuhr’s thought. The researcher collected data through documentation studies and academic literature reviews, while the analysis employed hermeneutical interpretation, interdisciplinary dialogue, and normative synthesis. The primary sources include Niebuhr’s major works, especially Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man, along with various scholarly works on political theology and contemporary geopolitics. The findings demonstrate that Christian Realism offers a framework of political ethics that realistically acknowledges human sin and egoism while maintaining a normative commitment to justice and moral responsibility in global politics. Christian Realism operates at epistemological, normative, and practical levels in interpreting multipolarity, international conflict, neoliberalism, and global digital domination. The implications of this study indicate that Christian Realism can function as an alternative framework of global political ethics capable of bridging political realism and moral values within the context of contemporary systemic chaos. The originality of this study lies in its effort to reconstruct Christian Realism as a framework of geopolitical ethics that responds contextually to multipolarity and digital geopolitics in the twenty-first century.
TEORI KONFLIK DAN KEKERASAN JOHAN GALTUNG: STUDI NETNOGRAFI DALAM KOLOM MEDIA BANDUNGBERGERAK.ID Manuella Princessa; Gabriel Putra Pratama; Grace Derio; Yutaro Yoshikoshi; Fajar Fatrias Akbar; Mochamad Ziaul Haq
Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies Vol. 5 No. 1 (2026): Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59029/int.v5i1.81

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This study aims to analyze the representation of conflict and social violence in the alternative media coverage of BandungBergerak.id using Johan Galtung’s ABC Triangle theory. This study is important because social conflict in urban society does not only appear in the form of physical violence, but also operates through structural and cultural violence that often remains invisible in everyday life. This study employed a qualitative research design using a virtual ethnography approach. The researcher selected the virtual ethnography method because the study focused on social activities and conflict representations that developed within digital spaces. The research data originated from the documentation of BandungBergerak.id news articles discussing bullying, restrictions on religious worship, femicide, forced evictions, and environmental conflicts. The researcher then analyzed the data using narrative analysis techniques through Johan Galtung’s ABC Triangle theoretical framework. The findings show that social conflict in BandungBergerak.id coverage does not only represent direct violence such as intimidation, bullying, femicide, and forced evictions, but also reveals structural violence through discriminatory policies, social marginalization, and weak state protection toward vulnerable groups. In addition, this study found cultural violence operating through patriarchy, intolerance, social stigma, and discriminatory language that normalize inequality within society. The findings also demonstrate that BandungBergerak.id presents narratives of conflict transformation through social empathy, community solidarity, environmental movements, and nonviolent practices based on constructive journalism. This study contributes to the development of Johan Galtung’s conflict studies by expanding the analysis of the relationship between digital media, structural violence, and conflict transformation in contemporary urban society. The originality of this study lies in its use of a virtual ethnography approach and the ABC Triangle theory to examine local alternative media as both a space for conflict representation and an arena for peace transformation.
Negotiating Tradition and Digitalization: The Cultural Agency of Indigenous Communities in Social Media Adaptation in Indonesia Paelani Setia; Moh. Dulkiah; Muhammad Ikhlas Rosele; Kristining Seva; Renatha Aisya Nazwanindya
Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies Vol. 5 No. 1 (2026): Integritas Terbuka: Peace and Interfaith Studies
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59029/int.v5i1.82

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This study analyzes how indigenous communities in Indonesia, particularly the Cireundeu Indigenous Community, manage the relationship between tradition and digitalization through practices of cultural agency in the use of social media. The study employs a qualitative approach with a case study design through interviews, participant observation, and analysis of community social media content. The findings show that digital adaptation in Cireundeu occurs through three forms of cultural agency. First, community elders demonstrate a cautious attitude toward social media as an effort to preserve the continuity of cultural values (resist). Second, the community adjusts the use of technology to existing customary norms (negotiate). Third, younger generations utilize social media for cultural education, tourism promotion, identity representation, and local economic development (enact). This process is supported by collaboration among community members, universities, local government institutions, and other digital actors. The study shows that the community does not perceive social media as a threat to tradition. Instead, community members use social media as a medium to reproduce cultural identity and expand the visibility of the indigenous community. This study contributes to the scholarship on indigenous communities and digital transformation by proposing a cultural agency-based digital adaptation model that explains the relationship between tradition and technology within the context of indigenous communities in Indonesia.