YALE
INDONESIA FORUM CONFERENCE
April 4, 2009
Interreligious Relations in Indonesia
As the Indonesian national motto, Bhinneka Tunggal Eka, points out, Indonesia is working to find unity in its great diversity. One key facet of Indonesian diversity is the plethora of religions in the archipelago, encompassing not merely the five broad categories found on Indonesian identity cards but also the traditional beliefs not represented on a national level and the varieties of religious understanding within each label. The interaction of religions provides a critical juncture for acting out the nation's unity or for exposing its lack of unity. The Yale Indonesia Forum Spring Conference 2009 seeks to probe this juncture from several disciplinary perspectives, examining the challenges, successes, and failures of interreligious relations in Indonesia. (>see conference schedule)
Pre Conference Workshops
| February
27 >Luce Hall 102 4:00 P.M. |
Pre-Conference
Workshop #1 Dialog with ACHMAD MUNJID PhD Candidate, Religion Department, Temple University; President of Nahdhatul Ulama Community in North America; Associate at the Dialogue Institute, Temple University |
| March
5 >Luce Hall 102 4:00 P.M. |
Pre-Conference
Workshop #2 Dialog with REV. DR. BATARA SIHOMBING MTh. Director of Postgraduate Studies, Abdi Sabda Seminary, The Batak Church, Huria Kristen Indonesia, Pematangsiantar, North Sumatra |
Conference
Program
Saturday, April 4
First Floor Seminar Room, >10 Sachem Street (Anthropology Building), New Haven, Connecticut
Saturday, April 4
First Floor Seminar Room, >10 Sachem Street (Anthropology Building), New Haven, Connecticut
| Schedule | |
| 11:00 | Brunch |
| 12:00 | Welcome |
| Panel I | |
| 12:15 | Jeffrey Hadler, University
of California, Berkeley "Antisemitism, Syncretism, and the Definition of 'Indonesia'" |
| 12:45 | Daromir Rudnyckyj, University
of Victoria "Spirits and Citizens: The Politics of Religious Difference in Contemporary Indonesia" |
| 1:15 | John Sidel, The London School
of Economics and Political Science "Persecution of Deviance and Policing of Religious Boundaries: Campaigns Against Ahmadis, 'False Prophets' and 'Deviant Cults' Within Indonesian Islam Since 2005" |
| 1:45 | Respondent |
| 2:00 | Q&A |
| 2:30 | Break |
| Panel II | |
| 2:45 | Charles Farhadian, Westmont
College "Reshaping Religious Subjectivities in a Contested Papuan Society" |
| 3:15 | Lorraine Aragon, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Indonesian Discourses on Religion, Deforestation, and Displacement" |
| 3:45 | Respondent |
| 4:00 | Q&A |
| 4:30 | Break |
| 5:00 | Round table on the state of the field |
| 6:00 | Dinner |