CRCS Newsletter March 2019
About
The Center, in its partnership with the Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS), Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia, is proud to feature CRCS’ new newsletter. The monthly-published issues will be featured in the CSEAS newsletter and highlighted here on our website. Check out our Religion & Diversity Initiative page to see more publications from CRCS.
Read the March newsletter online here.
This month’s newsletter features essays on the latest Nahdlatul Ulama (NU)’s conference, the Christchurch terror attack, Pancasila discourse, the Islamist-New Order alliance, and two reports on the Chinese community. We are also happy to announce that admission to CRCS will open next month, and we provide tuition-free scholarships for eligible students.
Highlights
- NU’s policy on kafir: Not new, but important (English)
- Reading the Christchurch mosque shooter’s manifesto (Indonesian)
- Islamists’ appropriation of Pancasila (English)
- Uncovering FPI’s alliance with Soeharto’s children (English)
- Chinese deity statue and hate spin in East Java (Indonesian)
- Chinese culture week in Yogyakarta (Indonesian; photos)
- Tuition-free scholarship for the 2019/2020 academic year