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  March 26, 2012
  12:02 pm

  #1 - KikiVery few living Indonesians rebmmeer or have read their national history with a critical eye, untainted by the state's propensity to shape its message. One of the lessons that is often forgotten by Indonesians is that Indonesia itself was a compromise among competing interests. An area where this was most problematic was the compromise over the role of religion in the new republic. The issue has been at the center, though often swept under the authoritarian or nationalist rug, of Indonesia's political life ever since the Jakarta Charter (Piagam Djakarta) was withdrawn at the last minute. The Jakarta Charter was replaced by a compromise, multi-confessionalism and the Pancasila fudge of Ketuhanan yang Maha Esa . People forgot that compromises come with ineffeciencies. Those ineffeciencies have since then been exacerbated by the country's array of religious groups and by ineffective and corrupt law enforcement and administration of justice. At the outset, it is my contention that multi-confessionalism is fundamentally a policy of discrimination, one that is increasingly at odds with an open, tolerant, democratic society. The current problems of religious intolerance in Indonesia is, in part, the result of the confluence of all these issues: multi-confessionalism, a lopsided Muslim majority of 88% of the population, the unresolved compromises that attended the birth of the country, and the inefficient and corrupt law enforcement and administration of justice. The chickens have come home to roost. In summary, the current problems in Indonesia are long in the making. They are historical, they are systemic.What is clear is that so long as Indonesians lack the courage and political maturity to put the issue of religion on the public agenda for discussion and debate, unlike the attitude of most Indonesians who treat religion are as a veritable holy cow beyond criticism and debate, the country will continue to suffer from religious intolerance and violence. Conflict avoidance is not conflict resolution.

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  April 3, 2012
  1:58 am

  #2 - ordering viagraVery few living Indonesians remember or have read their national history with a critical eye, untainted by the state’s propensity to shape its message. One of the lessons that is often forgotten by Indonesians is that Indonesia itself was a compromise among competing interests. An area where this was most problematic was the compromise over the role of religion in the new republic. The issue has been at the center, though often swept under the authoritarian or nationalist rug, of Indonesia’s political life ever since the Jakarta Charter (Piagam Djakarta) was withdrawn at the last minute. The Jakarta Charter was replaced by a compromise, multi-confessionalism and the Pancasila fudge of “Ketuhanan yang Maha Esa”. People forgot that compromises come with ineffeciencies. Those ineffeciencies have since then been exacerbated by the country’s array of religious groups and by ineffective and corrupt law enforcement and administration of justice. At the outset, it is my contention that multi-confessionalism is fundamentally a policy of discrimination, one that is increasingly at odds with an open, tolerant, democratic society. The current problems of religious intolerance in Indonesia is, in part, the result of the confluence of all these issues: multi-confessionalism, a lopsided Muslim majority of 88% of the population, the unresolved compromises that attended the birth of the country, and the inefficient and corrupt law enforcement and administration of justice. The chickens have come home to roost. In summary, the current problems in Indonesia are long in the making. They are historical, they are systemic.What is clear is that so long as Indonesians lack the courage and political maturity to put the issue of religion on the public agenda for discussion and debate, unlike the attitude of most Indonesians who treat religion are as a veritable “holy cow” beyond criticism and debate, the country will continue to suffer from religious intolerance and violence. Conflict avoidance is not conflict resolution.

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  April 6, 2012
  11:27 pm

  #3 - new jersey car insuranceYou think the heart of the problem is with teachers? Do you mean to suggest that religious fanaticism is a problem of bad teachers and poor instruction?If we accept the proposition that religious experience and interpretation of scripture is primarily or wholly subjective requiring faith, how do we objectively know whose religious experience and whose interpretation of scripture is the “right” one and whose is the “wrong” one? I think a problem with religious people is that they are trying to have their cake and eat it too. On one hand, religion requires personal subjective interpretation and experience, premised faith rather than reason. On the other hand, religious people expect all to conform to a standard, mainstream interpretation, bound by reason. The problems with “fanaticism” (I put it in brackets because one man’s fanaticism is another man’s orthodoxy) are not, I believe, due fundamentally with poor education or teaching, low education or limited economic opportunities. Ultimately the problem of “fanaticism” resides with the very nature by and modes of thought required by religious belief. There is still not free lunch, you know…

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