Archive for the ‘Human Rights’ Category
Pancasila yang Keren
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Pancasila yang Keren 1)
Oleh Dr. Beni Bevly 2)
Kini banyak pihak merasa Pancasila tidak sakti dan penuh dengan kebohongan, sehingga mereka melihatnya bukanlah objek yang keren. Terlepas dari benar atau tidaknya anggapan di atas, satu hal yang harus kita akui bahwa Pancasila tidak lagi memegang peranan sepenting ketika Orde Baru berkuasa. Berikut marilah kita diskusikan apa yang kita mau dari Pancasila? Apakah masih relevan? Jika ya, bagaimana kita mensikapinya? Apakah dengan repositioning Pancasila kita bisa membuatnya menjadi keren dan meletakkan Pancasila menjadi dasar filosofi dan pegangan rakyat Indonesia dalam bermasyarakat dan bernegara yang bisa mereka banggakan? 3) Read the rest of this entry »
eBook 13 tahun Tragedi Mei 1998: Masa Depan yang Damai
Download eBook untuk memperingati 13 tahun Tragedi Mei 1998. Masa Depan yang Damai: Anti Kekerasan dan Anti Diskriminasi Silakan disebarluaskan. Terima kasih.
Sambutan Ester Indahyani Jusuf, SH
Ketua Solidaritas Nusa dan Bangsa
Saya sangat antusias sekali ketika dihubungi oleh tim penulis buku Masa Depan yang Damai: Anti Kekerasan dan Anti Diskriminasi untuk menyampaikan kata sambutan. Rasa antusias bercampur keharuan bersahabat dengan kaum intelektual yang peduli dengan penderitaan korban. Sumbangan intelektual mereka semakin mendorong kami, para pendamping paguyuban masyarakat korban-penyintas Mei 1998, untuk senantiasa memperjuangkan penyelesaian adil bagi korban-penyintas dan Indonesia damai. Harapan demikian hendaknya semakin menjadi milik semua rakyat Indonesia. Perkenankan saya meletakkan buku ini dalam bingkai harapan ini. Read the rest of this entry »
Global Islam: Between Images and reality
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By Dr. Muhamad Ali
Globalization has made the world of Islam more heterogeneous than homogeneous. It continues to shape Islam identities and moralities, imagined or real, at both global and local levels. What is conceptually homogenous is Islam itself, but what it means differs.
Globalization in its broadest sense is not new, and early Islam normatively preached trans-racial, trans-ethnic solidarity of the community of the believers, although information technology today has made them even more aware of the world. Read the rest of this entry »
Lahir dari Rahim: Sebuah Teologi Profeminis Indonesia
Oleh P. Mutiara Andalas, S.J.[1]
Saat mencari judul buku yang dibedah hari ini, perbincangan dengan seorang rekan perempuan dari Indonesia yang mendalami teologi feminis berkelebat dalam benak. Ia dengan bangga memperlihatkan t-shirt The Vagina Monologues sambil menawarkan tiket pertunjukan yang semua pemerannya dari sebuah sekolah teologi Kristen di Berkeley. Meskipun akhirnya absen dari pertunjukan karena menghadiri acara lain, Eve Ensler mencuri perhatian sampai saya mengoleksi tulisan-tulisannya. Tuturan lugasnya pada bagian My Vagina is My Village memaku saya pada keterpukauan.
There is something between my legs. Read the rest of this entry »
Tipping point, terrorism and crimes against humanity
by Jennie S. Bev
It’s mind-boggling that the National Police have claimed they are one of the best police forces in the world in tackling terrorism and that the government has claimed it is an administration that governs a pluralistic country. Their claims are far from factual conditions. Otherwise many people wouldn’t be puzzled.
The Islam Defenders Front’s (FPI) acts of terror are rampant and have reached a point where religious minorities, including both non-Muslims and Muslims, have no place to stand and breathe. Recently, the places of worship and private residences of the Ahmadiyah Muslim sect have been ransacked, destroyed and burned. People have been abused physically, mentally, and emotionally. Read the rest of this entry »
AS dan Kebebasan Beragama
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Oleh Dr. Muhamad Ali
Kontroversi pembangunan pusat Islam di dekat Ground Zero—tempat serangan teroris 11 September 2001— membuat Presiden Amerika Serikat Barack Obama yang beragama Protestan harus angkat bicara. Wali Kota New York Michael Bloomberg, yang beragama Yahudi, sebelumnya mendukung.
Meski awalnya low profile karena itu ia anggap urusan Kota New York, ikut campurnya Obama menunjukkan isu Islam dan Barat, Islam dan keamerikaan, serta agama dan kebebasan agama belum selesai di Amerika Serikat. Read the rest of this entry »
The Battle of Dragon Antaboga against Octopus Lapindo
By Patrisius Mutiara Andalas, SJ
The mud people have made use of traditional stories familiar to the people to share their sufferings to the public and resist against unjust corporation. They refer to Sang Hyang Antaboga in the epic of Mahabharata and with the help of local artists connect the Lapindo Corporation with gurita (octopus). Octopus with dexterous arms can shrink and expand coordinately, and its camouflage system survives octopus in critical situations. They see the need to raise public awareness of the camouflaging power by the corporation to justify its innocence in the mudflow. They performed the battle between dragon Antaboga against octopus Lapindo to commemorate the fourth year of the mudflow in Porong. Read the rest of this entry »
Re-engagement with Kopassus
By Evan A. Laksmana
The recent announcement by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates that the US will begin “a gradual, limited program of security cooperation activities” with the Indonesian Army’s Special Forces (Kopassus) sparked an immediate controversy.
While the ban restricting the Kopassus from training on US soil or receive funding for lethal combat training is still likely to be in place for a while, the symbolic statement of opening formal lines of communications — beginning with “staff level discussions”— speaks louder than the actual deed. Read the rest of this entry »
Interpreting Koran as the source of living fatwas
[Note: This article is an example of my attempt in peace-building and creating better understanding in a pluralistic and multicultural society.]
by Jennie S. Bev
In Indonesia, clerics and their “political” organization Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) have been making headlines with their so-called “fatwas.” Even though some fatwas make sense, like forbidding smoking, which is bad for one’s health, other fatwas sound trivial. Read the rest of this entry »
Peringatan Hari Kemerdekaan: Ritualisme Yang Tak Berujung
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Oleh Tanza Erlambang
Perayaan untuk menyambut hari kemerdekaan Indonesia ke 65 tahun ini, sudah dimulai, baik di berbagai daerah tanah air, maupun oleh masyarakat indonesia yang tersebar di berbagai belahan dunia. Seperti ritual, perayaan itu terasa menoton. Dari tahun ke tahun hanya seputar lomba yang itu-itu saja : mulai dari menangkap kodok sampai main gaple, lomba lari karung sampai makan kerupuk.
Pertandingan olahragapun hanya sebatas hura-hura, tidak mengarah ke prestasi, apalagi prestasi olimpiade atau piala dunia. Kejuaraan dunia sepak bola misalnya, tak pernah sekalipun diikuti. Kita, seperti sudah mentakdirkan diri sendiri sebagai bangsa penonton sepanjang masa. Read the rest of this entry »
To vote or not to vote, that is not the question
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By Evan A. Laksmana
Among the basic rights of any citizen, soldiers included, is the right to vote. But this has not been the case for members of the Indonesian military (TNI), who last exercised this right in the country’s first general elections in 1955.
In fact, since 1971, soldiers had been barred from voting. In return, the TNI was given fixed seats in the national and local parliaments, although the practice was discontinued after 2004. Read the rest of this entry »
The constrained and unconstrained views
By Jennie S. Bev
Raphael’s painting The School of Athens depicted Plato pointing to the sky and Aristotle pointing to the ground. It encapsulates the two approaches in how we perceive the world: perfection and grounded reality.
These perspectives divide the world into unconstrained and constrained views, using terms used by Harvard professor of behavioral studies Tal Ben-Shahar.
In psychology, they become perfectionism and optimalism; in politics, they become communism and capitalism; in everyday arguments, they become can-do and cannot-do. Read the rest of this entry »
Air Mata Xie Xie
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Oleh Mutiara Andalas, SJ
Thank You. Xie Xie. Terima Kasih. Matur Nuwun.
Kapan pulang? Pertanyaan ini menggelayuti benak saya beberapa waktu terakhir. Saat seseorang menanyakannya, saya awalnya menjawab sambil lalu,“Masih lama.” Saat kepulangan sudah di depan pintu, lidah semakin tercekat untuk menjawabnya. Perubahan rona penanya saat saya menyebut perkiraan tanggal kepulangan menyadarkan beratnya kandungan pertanyaan. Read the rest of this entry »
The rise of Indonesia’s “accidental guerrillas”?
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By Evan A. Laksmana
The arrest of two university students in Central Java on terrorism charges two weeks ago – following a wave of arrests in recent months – highlights several trends regarding Indonesia’s evolving terrorist threat.
First, as a recent International Crisis Group report argued, there are now at least three jihadi streams in the country. Read the rest of this entry »
Soccer and politics
FIFA 2010 in Johannesburg and Nelson Mandela
by Jennie S. Bev
In 16 years after the apartheid ended in South Africa, Johannesburg has already become the host of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. This achievement has made Africa proud as it is the first time this continent has hosted a prestigious sporting event like this.
Historically speaking, South Africa has been colonized for 300 years by the English and the Dutch with 48 years of apartheid rule. In 16 short years, South Africa already built 1.1 million houses for the poor and has a rising number of middle class, although Caucasians still dominate the publicly traded companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Read the rest of this entry »
