KAMI Service Project Competition & Conference

Indonesian Youth Alumni (KAMI) Service Project Competition & Conference will be held in Jakarta next week! MICo is one of the many service projects nominated in KAMI Service Project Competition and Conference committee, and will be presented in Jakarta on June 1 to 3 next week. Pilot projects from MICo together with other young alumni from across Indonesia will present our service projects for this weekend.

Not only presentation about service project alone, the pilot projects consisted of young alumni will also be attending various workshops and seminars on leadership, organizational, youth activities, in developing a strategy projects and so on. The core of this three-day activity is that the youth alumni can better develop the potential and resources around them through their service projects.

MICo is also established from the initiative of some young alumni who are members of Indonesia English Language Program(IELSP). Other young alumni joining KAMI Conference Service Project Competition are American sponsored programs such as the Indonesian Youth Leadership Program (IYLP), Study of the United States Institute (SUSI) for student’s leadership and religious diversity, and so forth.

For my friends who are in Jakarta area (Greater Jakarta), if there is an opportunity just to come to the event WE Service Project Competition and Conference held at the Pacific Place Atamerica. For more information, you can access through the site AtAmerica or through social networks at @atamerica.

Media and Overblown Religious Intolerance

We strongly agree with how we should be prudent in dealing with various cases of conflicts in the name of religion. If we refer to The Jakarta Post article about religious intolerance, we should be able to see the other side of the success of religious life; not just negative only. It is inevitable that religion is still a tool for actors in influencing the future for the benefit of one-sided.

As the media continually exposing information about the religious intolerance in Indonesia, that is not balanced. As the result, instead of conveying information, the media would spread animosity to the people who actually do not solve a problem, but exacerbates the problem.

Thus, it is very important to establish interfaith forum that can provide balanced information to the public. Through this interfaith forum, the participants are not to blame one side or the other, but rather how to formulate measures to solve them.