World Interfaith Day: Moving In The Right Direction

In by 1000 Abrahamic Circles Project

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2021-02-05

Country: Indonesia
City: Jakarta
  • Organizer

    1000 Abrahamic Circles Project

  • Location

    Bengkel Diplomasi - FPCI

  • Email

    [email protected]

On 5 February, we also conducted a webinar to commemorate World Interfaith Day with school students' target audience. The webinar has been able to be carried through as a result of the collaboration between Temasek Independent School Bandung and the 1000 Abrahamic Circles Project. This discussion was presenting our Founder, Dr. Dino Patti Djalal as a founder of 1000 Abrahamic Circles Project and Dr. Hary Elias as the Academic Director of Temasek Independent School. The webinar is filled with around 250 excited participants, with the majority of them being the school’s students, discussing inter-religious tolerance, extremism, and bigotry along with the webinar.

The discussion starts with the introduction of the topic of the discussion and later on continued with Dr. Dino Patti Djalal’s session explaining the inter-religious peace problems and how to overcome them. The session is closed with Questions and answers session where the students excitedly asks about various problems and conditions of inter-religious peace. The students were also asked how they should act on several conditions that threaten the inter-religious harmony in their environment.

We found that it is necessary to inform the grassroots communities and especially the children to protect the inter-religious peace on their community and family level. The celebration of World Interfaith Day would be a great approach for school students, as it can be filled with creative and interactive events. The commemoration would familiarize the children with the spirit of inter-religious solidarity with the students and their parents. Thus, we will continue enhancing our knowledge and sharing it with various schools and grassroots communities in order to achieve inter-religious peace globally.