Building Social and Religious Harmony for Students in Indonesia: Study of Interfaith Harmony Forum’s Role of Malang, East Java

Umi Sumbulah, Agus Purnomo

2018

Abstract

Social conflict between students from a number of universities in Malang city 2014-2016, due to lack of awareness of the values of religious harmony, i.e.tolerance, equality, and cooperation. This article discusses FKUB's efforts in managing social and religious harmony for students with a multicultural background is to instil the principle of tolerance, equality and increase the quality and quantity of cooperation between various elements, through the program of enrichment and maintenance of social and religious harmony. The empowerment program aims to strengthen the awareness of multiculturalism, national insight, and social and religious harmony. The program of empowerment and maintenance of social harmony includes the development of tolerant and inclusive religious understanding, strengthening religious teachings, capacity building for interfaith youth leaders, visits to religious institutions, social institutions and educational institutions, and promoting equality of majority and minority groups. The development of multicultural values undertaken has significance in the effort to realize the principles and values of democracy, equity and justice; values of humanity, togetherness, and peace; as well as social attitudes of recognition, acceptance, and respect to others, especially among students with diverse backgrounds from religious, ethnic, racial, organizational, and other social categories.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sumbulah U. and Purnomo A. (2018). Building Social and Religious Harmony for Students in Indonesia: Study of Interfaith Harmony Forum’s Role of Malang, East Java.In Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI, ISBN 978-989-758-458-9, pages 219-228. DOI: 10.5220/0009924302190228

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icri18,
author={Umi Sumbulah and Agus Purnomo},
title={Building Social and Religious Harmony for Students in Indonesia: Study of Interfaith Harmony Forum’s Role of Malang, East Java},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,},
year={2018},
pages={219-228},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009924302190228},
isbn={978-989-758-458-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Recent Innovations - Volume 1: ICRI,
TI - Building Social and Religious Harmony for Students in Indonesia: Study of Interfaith Harmony Forum’s Role of Malang, East Java
SN - 978-989-758-458-9
AU - Sumbulah U.
AU - Purnomo A.
PY - 2018
SP - 219
EP - 228
DO - 10.5220/0009924302190228