PLURALISME AGAMA DAN KONFLIK

Abstract

Indonesians generally claim as religious nation. History showed that Indonesian is a nation with rich races, tribes, ethnics, cultures, cus­ tom, and religions. That richness is a gift from God so human beings could organize and maintain their harmony in order to respect and ap­ preciate one another in their diversity. Religions and beliefs such as Islam, Christian, Catholics, Hindu­ ism, Buddha and other believe ideologies educate human beings to do good things (ikhsan) among human being, between members of a reli­ gious community, and among members of various religious communi­ ties. Efforts needed to keep away tension and conflict in daily life of members of a religious community and among members of various reli­ gious communities are to implement and to apply their own tenets, to create dialog among various religious community in leader level or in grassroots level regularly. In addition, to collect various thoughts and opinions of different group of people that care of religious role in solv­ ing current social problems.