Katalog

The Indonesian nation faces essential and crucial problems in fostering unity in diversity in real social relations. Threats of disharmony and disintegration due to differences are ubiquitous symptoms in a pluralistic society. The potential conflict in a heterogene.ous society occurs not only between different religions, such as between Hindu and Muslim. It also happens within the same religion due to different interpretation of teachings, such as between syncretic Muslims who maintain ancestral customs along with Islam vis-a-vis much stricter Muslims who are intolerant with local-tradition especially the one contravening Islam. Other examples are between mainstream Muslims and the Ahmadiyah, the Sunni and the Shiah.