Jakarta Plurilateral Dialogue 2023 Officially Opened, Invites Strengthening Tolerance Between Religious Peoples

JAKARTA - The Jakarta Plurilateral Dialogue (JPD) 2023 was officially opened by the Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture of the Republic of Indonesia, Muhadjir Effendy on Tuesday 29 August at the Borobudur Hotel, Jakarta. On that occasion, he stated that the JPD 2023 raised the theme of tolerance as a humanitarian urgency in the midst of the rampant behavior of discrimination and intolerance based on global religion and belief. JPD 2023 is becoming relevant in order to answer the challenges of world peace, for which a culture of tolerance needs to be in order to maintain the diversity of society and the whole country needs to work together constructively to build a culture of tolerance," Muhadjir said.. In promoting a clear legal framework in fighting religious-based discrimination and promoting innovation in countering intolerance, said Retno. Yaqut Cholil Qoumas as the Minister of Religion of the Republic of Indonesia also expressed the importance of tolerance based on religion and trust in creating in the midst of the current global development. In his speech, the familiar minister called Gus Yaqut expressed his experience of Indonesia in treating tolerance closely related to the democratic culture adopted by the Indonesian people. Indonesia is one of the countries with the longest and most intense tolerance experiments. Indonesian traditions and beliefs encourage citizens to understand,,'''' and translate differences into understandable facts and are adapted to social interactions between citizens. Gus Yaqut. JPD 2023 agenda organized by the Presidential Staff Office, Ministry of Religion and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs includes 5 dialogue sessions that explore the best practices and learning from various stakeholders around the world in strengthening the implementation of Resolution 16/18HCR.

Through the collaboration of these three ministries and institutions, they want to show Indonesia's modality to advance and encourage the fulfillment of human rights without religious-based discrimination and trust., incitement to violence against people based on religion or belief.