• Authors: Subandri Simbolon
  
• From: Public Education Staff at CRCS-UGM, Graduate School Universitas Gadjah Mada

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Formation of priest candidates is a very important element in the Catholic Church. The formandi (seminarians) are formed in a holistic manner to achieve the unity of faith, personal and intellectual. Formation system is prepared from Midle Seminary to High Seminary. However, changing times is inevitable. It also affects the changes in each individual, especially the seminarians. In Indonsia, the seminarians in this era can be included in Generation Y (Gen Y). Gen Y certainly bring problems and challenges in the formation process. This article aims to analyze how the Catholic Church, especially through Decret Optatam Totius, respons to issue of Gen-Y presence in Priest candidates formation. By basing the writing on ethnographic interviews, and analysis of any related text, the author described this in a systematic discussion paper. The first section, the introduction explains YGeneration issue as a challenge that must be faced. In the second part, explains the form of education the Catholic priest candidates. Finally, elaborate the challenges, expectations, the outhor try to give proposals into the Priest candidates formation process. read more

• Authors: Anugrah Adiastuti
• From: Faculty of Law, Universitas Sebelas Maret

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The energy consumption in more less two last decades has increased and it happens due to economic and world growth population. Based on Handbook of Energy and Economic Statistics of Indonesia in 2012, it showed that there were five sectors that consumed energy more than the other sector; industrial sector, domestic sector, commercial sector, transportation sector, and other sectors. This energy consumption growth is caused by the increased number of economic that affects and in line with the consumption itself. Indonesia as a country where is located in South East Asia region is the biggest energy consumption with 36% from all total energy consumption state in ASEAN. The problem arises when the Indonesian provisions on energy do not meet with the climate change issue. One principle that should be taking into account is that “The Common Heritage of Mankind Principle”. This international law principle cannot be neglected because Indonesia as a state and part of international community is also obliged and have to take part in sustaining and preserving current environment and resource so still can be utilized for future generations. This writing is intended to analyze more about Indonesian Provisions on Energy where its content and implementation already in harmony with “The Common Heritage of Mankind Principle” or not including its relation to climate change sphere. read more

• Authors: Novita Dwi Wulandari
  
• From: Media and Cultural Studies Graduate School Universitas Gadjah Mada
  

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Sharia tourism is a tourism constructed for government’s interest. Although it is for facilitate domestic tourism Moslem and foreign tourism Moslem, but in the practice, there is a commodification in sharia tourism. This research focuses on political economy study in sharia tourism construction. The aims of this research are: a) to explain the forms of religion commodities in sharia tourism construction on Wisata Syariah: Karakter, Potensi, Prospek, dan tantangannya textbook; b) to explain authority role of MUI and Kemenpar in sharia tourism construction; and c) to describe who is the most advantaged in sharia tourism practice. This research uses political economy, commodification, and consumer society theory. Meanwhile, the type of this research is qualitative interpretative and the methods are interview, observation, and document analysis. The finding of this research is that religion used as a commodity in the sharia tourism construction, replaced religion’s role by government’s interest. Therefore, government is the most advantaged. read more

• Authors: Harifuddin Halim
  
• From: Universitas Pejuang RI Makassar

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Evironmental degradation is a sign of disharmony relationship between humans and the physical environment. Disharmony is realized in the form of human treatment ‘arbitrary’ on the environment. Humans treat the environment exceeds the limits of the environment itself which resulted in the environment to be ‘ill’ and disrupted the process of life. Environment no longer provide for its needs, is no longer a ‘partner’ for human life itself. Tracing all human ‘exploitative’ action is, it was revealed later that the human perception of him is ‘superior’ and put the environment as an aspect of the ‘inferior’ is the main cause. This view has implications for the human action that puts the environment as a ‘steward’ for the human life welfare, as the objects ‘dead’ and not as a complementary partner. The view above in the positivism is a manifestation of the rationalinstrumental knowledge. The essence of this knowledge is everything always has a purpose and considerations based on calculations that must be achieved effectively and efficiently. Then this necessitates man to make efforts to achieve the goal of his life by leaving the existence of other entities, especially the existence of the natural environment life. Realizing imbalance human relationship with the natural environment, man then made various efforts of human awareness of the urgency of the existence of other entities on earth. For example, in the tradition of the Frankfurt school through the perspective of critical theory. This perspective considers that man must be restored its position as a partner for the natural environment and not as superior beings anymore. Achieving this, people must understand the essence of the natural environment and the human essence through ‘communication’. This is what gave birth to the theory of rational-communicative. In its development, various school of thought rise as a form of attention to environmental issues. For example, ecophenomenology issue initiated by Martin Heidegger. He considers that humans should understand firstly the existence of another new entity then he can understand its existence. There is also thinking about Transcendetal-Theosophy of Mulla Sadra that views all the entities in this world has ‘value’ itself, though ‘rock’. Each entity will be ‘worth’ when it has a ‘relationship’ with others. That is, the humanity value will come true whenvit was elated by values inherent in other entities such as the natural environment. Based on Transcendental-Theosophy perspective, the human-environment relationship can be realized in harmony and balance to the survival of both. read more

• Authors: Sukri Tamma
  
• From: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Bonn University, Germany
  

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This paper aims to analyze the phenomena of democracy in term of local election in the Toraja area related to the existences of the Toraja ethnic group as the majority and their indigeneity. It tends not simply as the way to proof the “people rule” only as usually known by people tin related to the democracy that legalized by the state regulation. That democracy event is an opportunity for their customary guidance existences that make this situation as the “legal pluralism” arena. That situation should be viewed as a “critical discourse” between the general idea of democracy that formalized by the state and the local values. Hence, as two important things, it seems that presences of both laws will influencing the Torajas form of democracy that showing dynamics of the state formal regulation and the Customary existence. read more

• Authors: Anggaunita Kiranantika
  
• From: Sociology Department, State University of Malang

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Transnational Indonesian worker is dynamics and fluctuating on 3 years. Javanese women have moved from villages and small towns from east Java Province, Indonesia to Singapore as domestic worker prior and employer on manufacture sector. this article points on Javanese women cones from East Java who took part on domestic worker on Singapore as the destination. Transnational migrants, described as Javanese women work, life and express their interest in several context rather than in a single nationstate. They maintenance and also upgrade their skill in Singapore. Capturing “space” concept on Transnational migration, One of established concept of “space” is territory defined by public boundaries. Moreover, Georg Simmel’s approach to spatial analysis, especially In “The Sociology of Space” was continuing to express “social geometry.” Simmel would attempt to catalog as the spatial reality of social life. Social remittances are the ideas, behaviors, identities, and social capital that migrants export to their home. They differ from global cultural flows in that it is possible to identify the channels through which they are disseminated and the determinants of their impact. Drawning from larger study of paid domestic worker in Singapore comes from East Java province, Indonesia using qualitative perspective. Research process was based primarily on non-random sampling using snowball system. Observing least 30 Javanese Women followed by indepth interview. Trans national movement involved working in the houses of their foreign employers. Distance from home allowed women the opportunity to transform themselves both physically and metaphorically. read more

• Authors: Leonard Chrysostomos Epafras
  
• From: Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS) Graduate School Universitas Gadjah Mada
  

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Indonesian Interfaith Weather Station (IIWS) is one of the interfaith initiative introduced by the Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies (ICRS), started October 2014 and concluded in September 2015. It is an applied research that the main objective is to explore the possibility of preventing inter- and intra-religious tension and conflict in Indonesia. It is an academic exploration and practical inquiry of an early warning system that included the social analysis and digital technology intervention. This paper is a theoretical analysis of the discourse of ?conflict prevention,? its relationship with IIWS initiative, and a reflection upon this engagement. The frame of discussions is revolved around the notion of risk society and other issues such as conflict prevention and preemption, and the crowd sourcing. All in all, this paper seeks the better understanding of social and religious shift in Indonesian society, and an elaboration of the viable way on mobilizing new option, such as digital technology in dealing with social problems. read more

• Authors: Emmilia Rusdiana
  
• From: Faculty of law and Social Science. University State of Surabaya

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Legal aid is the constitutional right of every citizen. The genesis of the Legal Aid act should be a tangible manifestation of the state’s responsibility for the Legal Aid right as access to justice for all Indonesian people was mandated by the Undang-undang Dasar Negara Republik Indonesia year 1945, The Law Number 39 Year 1999 on Human Rights, Code of Criminal Law (Code of Criminal Procedure), The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil Rights and Political, which has been ratified by the Law Number 12 Year 2005, there is also full fill for everyone to get legal aid and services of Advocates (a right to have a legal counsel) for the poor. The Report of monitoring results of implementation the legal aid act on 2013 performed by the LBH Bandar Lampung, LBH Bandung and Yogyakarta illustrates clearly that the legal aid system needs improvement in the future to be very important and urgent. The results are propose changes to legal aid act by first perception and expectations of future changes in the legal aid act between the legal aid organizer, recipients and providers. Kemenkumham coordinate with other agencies that district/city governments and ministries villages, lags rural development and transmigration (PDT) in optimizing the village role to realize the Law Number 6 Year 2014 on The Village, one of which set up village funds, part of a study of the spread and equity on the findings that Location spread LBH / LKBH/CBOs unevenly. The extension of the poor meaning, not only because it cannot meet the basic rights properly and independently (absolute poverty), but also meaningful form other poverty that is relative poverty, structural and cultural, which if applied, it can be interpreted as a marginal group of social, political and culture, minorities and vulnerable groups as well as persons with disabilities. The administrative requirements and management structure that is not relevant for some LBH/CBOs because that are difficult to fulfill, so Kemenkumham should do in stages through bureaucratic reform, pending changes to legal aid act. envolvement of civil society are the application of legal aid programs through organizations, trade unions, involving companies in implementing Corporate Legal Responsibility (CLR), involvement of students and lecturers of universities to play an active role in organizing legal aid programs and so forth. read more

• Authors: Gregory Vanderbilt
  
• From: Center for Religion and Cross Cultural Studies Graduate School Universitas Gadjah Mada
  

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Observations of the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki come in the midst of controversy over U.S. intervention into Iran’s nuclear capabilities and over a shift to the right in Japanese politics towards abandoning its postwar pacifist positioning (and active opposition in the streets of Japanese cities) as well as the passing on of those who directly experienced the bombs (the hibakusha). To what extent do their voices still gather concentrated as well as ritualized attention? What roles do religious leaders, movements, and institutions now play in this process, in a society that tends to define itself as areligious? Hiroshima has often been framed as a universal tragedy while memories of Nagasaki have often highlighted connections to Catholicism, including the “hidden Christians” the 150th anniversary of whose reemergence was celebrated earlier this year, but religious ideas, including the comforting of lost souls in Buddhist terms, are part of both sites. With Benjamin’s thesis about grabbing hold of a memory in a moment of danger in mind, this paper asks what place history, alongside religion and politics, play as one generation does not remember what another repressed. This paper draws on fieldwork during the observations in August 2015 in both Hiroshima and Nagasaki. read more

• Authors: Irene Ludji
  
• From: Faculty of Theology, Satya Wacana Christian University

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Thomas Merton was an excellent writer who lived as a trappist monk in the Abbey of Gethsemani located in New Haven- Kentucky. Merton wrote many books, articles, and letters about spirituality and social justice. Though he lived in the Abbey, his concern about the social life in community is powerful. In facing the Vietnam War, Merton proposed the nonviolent way as the practice Christians should use to withstand violence. This paper will explore Merton?s concept of the nonviolent way as one of the important criterias of responsible leadership in a religious community (read: Christian community) and contrast it to the modern context of the war on terror by the United States (US) and its effect on other nations (Indonesia in particular). My thesis is that Merton’s idea of the nonviolent way can be applied by Christians in standing against violence by religious extremists in Indonesia. Merton provided a great example of responsible leadership that religious community in Indonesia can learn in order to create a peaceful life together. read more