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Indonesia’s Public Diplomacy: Interfaith Meetings in the Netherlands

Chapter of: Beyond the Spirit of Bandung: Philosophies of National Unity: Secular or Religious?

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TitleIndonesia’s Public Diplomacy: Interfaith Meetings in the Netherlands
ContributorFrans Wijsen(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.54195/FLRI3273_CH02
Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
PublisherRadboud University Press
Published on2023-11-30
Long abstractThis chapter addresses the question of what policy-makers in the Netherlands and Indonesia can learn from each other in safeguarding national unity. It analyses the Public Diplomacy program of the Indonesian government and bilateral Netherlands–Indonesia interfaith dialogues from the perspective of secularism and religion–state relationships. It uses public–private partnership between the Indonesian embassy in the Netherlands and two non-governmental organizations, namely the Netherlands–Indonesia Consortium for Muslim-Christian Relations and the Special Branch of Nadhlatul Ulama in the Netherlands, as cases. The chapter concludes that the governments and policy-makers in both countries advocate neutral engagement with religions, but that they not always practice what they preach. In the Netherlands the freedom to have a religion is under pressure. In Indonesia the rights of religious minorities and the right to be without religion is under pressure. The chapter concludes that what policy-makers in both countries can learn from each other is to balance extremes.
Keywords
  • Public Diplomacy Program
  • secularism and religion-state relationships
  • Pancasila Philosophy
  • interfaith dialogues
  • secular and pluralistic national unity
Contributors

Frans Wijsen

(author)
Radboud University, Gadjah Mada University
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0135-9969

Frans Wijsen is professor emeritus at Radboud University in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and adjunct professor at Gadjah Mada University in Yoyakarta, Indonesia. He has conducted research on religious discourses, social cohesion and conflict in The Netherlands (published as De Multiculturele Uitdaging, Amsterdam University Press 2020), Tanzania and Indonesia (published as Religious Discourse, Social Cohesion and Conflict, Peter Lang 2013). Presently he focuses on the relationship between faith-based organisations and environmental challenges.