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Selasa, 16 November 2010

Observer: The Many European Review of Indonesian Islam (Tuesday, November 16, 2010)

Observer: The Many European Review of Indonesian Islam (Tuesday, November 16, 2010)


Vienna (ANTARA) - Professor of Islamic University (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga Kholis Nur Setiawan said that today more and more universities in Europe who founded the study of Islam in Indonesia because they are attracted to life beragamanya.
"They realize that Islam in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia, are also important," said Nur Kholis during a public lecture at the University of Vienna, Austria, on Monday.
Nur Kholis along with Professor of Philosophy College of Prof. BS Driyarkara Mardiatmadja and Director of the Institute for the Study of Islamic Though and Civilization (Insist) Hamid Fahmi Zarkasyi was in Austria to give a public lecture at the University of Vienna and the University of Salzburg.
They are doing the General Diplomatic Campaign organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Nur Kholis who never learned about Islamic studies in Germany and take the S2 in the Netherlands said the study of Islam in Indonesia, among others, exist in Germany (Frankruf, Hamburg, Berlin, and Bonn), the Netherlands, and England.
Nur Kholis said they were amazed and wondered, Indonesia's vast and very diverse cultures and religions have never clashed as in the Balkans. "Safe-safe only. They were amazed," he said.
Some time ago, he said, Germany was failing to build the diversity of its population but consisted only of the original German, Turkish and Jewish.
That, he said, because Germany was the most important. "Now Indonesia has not experienced this. We mutually respect each other," he said.
Nur Kholis also said, since the first studies on Islam in Europe is only focused on Islamic studies Middle East. But after seeing the changes they feel need to look at Islam from the other side. "Indonesia is one of them," said Nur Kholis.
He said Indonesia as a Muslim country but a large number of small conflicts.
On that occasion Nur Kholis also describes the living conditions of interreligious in Indonesia. He said the words that interreligious life in the post-reform era is better than the new order.
He said, when the new order of diversity tried to eliminated.
Nur Kholis also said, even if there is conflict in Indonesia, then it is not a religious conflict. "I think more because of other factors," he said.
For example the riots in Sampit, Kalimantan and Poso (Central Sulawesi), he said, is not the interreligious riots. He said the unrest in Sampit an ethnic riot.
When visiting Austrian President Heinz Fischer to Indonesia, 9 November, Indonesia and Austria signed an agreement of cooperation in the field of improving inter-religious dialogue to promote relations between the two countries better.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that cooperation may take the form of exchange students or visiting religious leaders from both countries in an effort to establish dialogue between faiths.
Meanwhile, President Fischer said that Austria had pushed for inter-religious dialogue in their country in an attempt to encourage a sense of mutual understanding.
"That we have developed through cooperation in these fields with other countries, and we chose Indonesia," he explained.

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