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Few countries as culturally rich, politically pivotal, and naturally beautiful as Indonesia are as often misrepresented in global media and conversation. Stretching 3,400 miles east to west along the equator, Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and home to more than four hundred ethnic groups and several major world religions. This…
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The crisis of multiculturalism in the West and the failure of the Arab uprisings in the Middle East have pushed the question of how to live peacefully within a diverse society to the forefront of global discussion. Against this backdrop, Indonesia has taken on a particular importance: with a population of 265 million people (87.7…
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The religious freedom perspective as it developed in Indoneia, 15 years after the start of democratization, responds to two main problems. First, religious freedom is a new language in the attempt to provide a better framework for the management of the rich diversity of religious expressions in Indonesia, with its long tradition of world and…
