KSP Guarantees Government's Commitment To Religious Moderation

Deputy V KSP Jaleswari Pramodhawardani

JAKARTA - The Presidential Staff Office (KSP) will oversee the government's commitment to continue to encourage religious moderation for the community, one of which is by encouraging inter-religious tolerance.

"Regarding religious moderation, intolerance, diversity, and respect for human rights, it is not only a national priority program, but also part of the management of strategic issues that are the tasks of KSP," said Deputy V KSP Jaleswari Pramodhawardani in a press release in Jakarta, Saturday 11 December quoted from Antara.

Jaleswari admits that it is not easy to implement the government's commitment to creating religious moderation for the community.

However, with the success of several local governments in suppressing conflicts between religious communities, it can be a reference for KSP to unravel the blockage of intolerance problems in the field.

"Because the mechanism has been created," he said.

He gave an example of resolving the dispute over the establishment of the Yasmin Indonesian Christian Church (GKI) in Bogor City for 15 years.

"KSP has been providing assistance in resolving conflicts through long mediation channels. This can be replicated for the resolution of similar cases in other areas," he said.

Meanwhile, according to the Mayor of Bogor, Bima Arya, so far the resolution of cases of religious intolerance in the regions is often only borne by the local government.

Bima Arya stressed that the central government has a stake and must dare to take concrete policies to care about conflict resolution.

"Unfortunately, the government's approach to solving problems has been too bureaucratic and formal," said Bima Arya.

Bima Arya conveyed that the resolution of human rights issues related to intolerance and discrimination against minority communities required a firm and comprehensive policy, from upstream to downstream.

"For example, in the settlement of the Yasmin GKI, people have come to know that siding is not just rhetoric and ceremonies, but concrete policies," he said.

The strengthening of dialogue forums among religious believers is also considered to be a powerful way to revive religious moderation for the community. As has been done by the City Government of Kediri by cooperating with communities and associations between diverse people.

"We cooperate with them to take policies in accordance with the regulations, including the construction of churches, temples, and others," said Kediri Mayor Abdullah Abu Bakar.

Makassar Mayor Moh. Ramdhan Pomanto said that the problem of intolerance and discrimination is the same as that of active radio, namely that it quickly spreads to all spaces. Therefore, resilience is needed from below to eliminate racism.

"We move devices at the lower layers, starting from the Camat, Lurah, RT, and RW to become influencers in building communication to different groups. We call it Makasar Merata or Pasi Barania," said Moh. Ramadan.