Regional Workshop Attend all of Southeast Asia, this is a souvenir from the Mataram D3M Representative Participants

PEPADU.DUTADAMAI.ID – Successfully held a National Youth Camp event in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara last year in collaboration with the Nusa Tenggara Center. This year, PPIM State Islamic University (UIN) Jakarta through the CONVEY project held a regional workshop in Southeast Asia with the theme “Religious Education and Prevention of Violent Extremism in Diverse Societies in South Asia: Lessons Learned and Best Practices.

The event which was held from 21 to 23 November 2018 at the Ballroom of the Hotel Ayana MidPlaza Jakarta invited as many as 300 participants consisting of elements from CSOs, the Government, Academics, Researchers who came from representatives of Southeast Asian countries.

On this occasion, two selected participants from NTB Province attended as Mataram regional representatives of the World Maya Peace Ambassador, namely Maia Rahmayati and Rohani Inta Dewi. Packaged events In various panel discussions, questions and answers, and group discussions. Presenting speakers from various backgrounds, backgrounds, and professions.

The first day (Wednesday / 21/11/2018) As an opening, the Indonesian Minister of Religion, Lukman Hakim Saifuddin, who was originally present to give a speech, was represented by the Special Staff of the Minister Prof.

In his remarks, Prof.Oman conveyed empirical facts from the results of PPMI’s research, that religious understanding, interpretation, and meaning of religion in the era of globalization often absorb misinformation, especially those that are absorbed instantly from the massive use of the internet. According to him, this is a global phenomenon that occurs in almost all countries, especially in Indonesia. Some of the solutions presented were related to the provision of material, especially Religious Education in formal and informal schools, including the importance of increasing the capacity of teachers/ustad / ustazah who teach. Besides, the diversity of the Indonesian nation from a religious perspective should be viewed as a Rahmat, namely by not being anti to local culture, cementing differences. The hope is that by selecting this kind of activity, it can open up insights into diverse knowledge, especially religious knowledge in various countries in Asia, and provide the best formula in managing this diversity.

In the next session on the first day, there were academics and anthropologists Bianca J. Smith who conveyed empirical findings.

Bianca said, the perspective of each country, especially in Asia, is different regarding Sufism. In fact, in Brunei, according to him, Sufism is considered kafir and bid’ah. Meanwhile in Indonesia, Sufism still has the opportunity to contribute, join the tariqat network and they work on personal affairs and different ways in what it calls “Liver Medicine”. Moreover, that object he encountered in Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara. His views and findings regarding Lombok which is prone to religious conflict, has a hatred of differences, are the turning point of Bianca’s question about what Tuan Guru teaches, and what understanding do they have so far about religion? Different groups were absorbed, cornered and the government ignored them. However, not a few of the results of their research found groups that still adhere to the values ​​of Sufism and including some Tuan Guru still teach it by relying on the Sufi value “back to one’s heart”. The next speaker was Professor Azzyumadi Azra specifically conveying about Islamic Religious Education in Indonesia, the role and history of its development, especially after the reformation. He explained Robert Havener’s view on Islamic education which according to Havener was the most progressive in Indonesia compared to countries in Asia and even in the world. According to Havener, this is because religious education institutions in Indonesia continue to reform, initially only in Islamic boarding schools such as Dayah in Aceh, in their development of conservative growth. “And now, we can see that pesantren have become educational institutions not only about religion but there have been many educational institutions in pesantren, and Islamic Religious Education, for example, becomes the curriculum. Even in the education system we are separated into two parallel systems of education, one is under the Ministry of Education and one is under the Ministry of Religion, “he said.

The first session moderated by Jajang Jahroni, Ph.D. finished at 12.30 WIB. It was continued at 14.00 after lunch. This time the discussion session was guided by moderator Dadi Darmadi, who is a senior researcher at PPIM UINJ. Speakers at this session presented Mr. Haidar Bagir from the Lazuardi Indonesia school and Mrs. Salma Pir T. Rasul, the Program Director for the Center for Islam and Democracy in the Philippines. At the end of the first day’s session, Prof. Fuad Jabali from PPIM facilitated the participants to conclude the understanding on the first day of this meeting and discussion. (Continued)