Two Hours to Know Indonesia

Indonesia is currently 'concerned' about the issue of intolerance. One religion competes with the others and claims to be the most superior. This situation makes young people reluctant to interact with others because there is a negative stigma blown by irresponsible people, especially post-terror and Surabaya bomb on May 13, 2018.

Seeing this situation, Stube-HEMAT Yogyakarta took part in building cross-faith friendship by holding a fast-breaking together. The event was attended by 15 participants and 6 Stube team members, on Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at Stube-HEMAT's secretariat.

Beside getting to know each other and introduce themselves the event presented a Nusantara Quiz to get to know Indonesia and Indonesia at a glance. Most of the participants were students from outside of Yogyakarta even out side Java island, such as West Nusa Tenggara, Lampung, Kalimantan and East Nusa Tenggara. The atmosphere became more lively when the participants were invited to be involved in the quiz / Smart Quiz of the Archipelago. The spirit of recognizing again the diversity and wealth of Indonesia from Sabang to Merauke, such as Indonesia's outer islands, provincial capitals, historical places in Yogyakarta, traditional songs, traditional clothing, and historic cities of colonialism to independence, radiated from  each participant.

Based on games hosted by Indah, one of the Stube-HEMAT teams, only several students were familiar with cities in Sulawesi even though they were the provincial capitals. This is our homework to get to know Indonesia better. It will make participants, as young people, are not easily provoked by a variety of negative issues that are deliberately built, because we already know and understand the diversity and  wealth of our beloved country. The event went so lively even though 75% of the participants just few minutes knew each other, but they were enthusiastic and proactive to interact.

By getting to know more about Indonesia, we will love our country more. Friction occurs because of the mistrust that is intentionally built among us, especially young people who are easily ignited by emotion. If young people are not given the correct understanding, the decision taken are certainly not in line with Pancasila.

This program accommodated young people to meet and embrace interfaith friends to communicate. If the problem can be solved by communication, then there will be no violence that takes casualties. Let's join hands and work hand in hand against injustice done on the name of religion. (SAP).