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IL News 031/2012

 

Dr. Paul Marshall — Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute (USA) and Leimena Insitute, Indonesia’s Vice Minister of Religion Dr. Nasaruddin Umar, Leimena President Jakob Tobing (seventh to ninth from left), together with religious leaders, academicians, and Leimena Trustees, discuss the book SILENCED: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide at the Leimena Insitute on September 6th, 2012. The authors—Paul Marshall and Nina Shea—address how religious freedom in many countries, including Indonesia, is being threatened by government restrictions and the notion of apostasy.

Ciputra Group Managing Director Cakra Ciputra and Transformational Business Network Founder Dr. Kim Tan (first and second from right) discuss the prospect to fight poverty through social venture capital at the Leimena Institute on October 1st, 2012. Kim Tan—author of Fighting Poverty Through Enterprise: The Case of Social Venture Capital—also shared his experience in Asia and Africa.

Leimena Training Director Daniel Adipranata speak on the idea of Indonesia in the seminar “My Indonesia, Your Indonesia” at the GBI Diaspora Sejahtera church in Malang, on October 17th, 2012. The seminar was held by the church’s youth commission to honor the Oath of Youth day, which commemorates the historical agreement by the youth leaders from different ethnic and religious groups in the  Youth Congress on October 28th, 1928, that they were one nation with the same homeland and language of unity: Indonesia.

Leimena Training Director Daniel Adipranata speak on the idea of Indonesia in the seminar “My Indonesia, Your Indonesia” at the GBI Diaspora Sejahtera church in Malang, on October 17th, 2012. The seminar was held by the church’s youth commission to honor the Oath of Youth day, which commemorates the historical agreement by the youth leaders from different ethnic and religious groups in the  Youth Congress on October 28th, 1928, that they were one nation with the same homeland and language of unity: Indonesia.

Former Constitutional Court Judge Maruarar Siahaan (on the screen) in Jakarta talks to the pastors in Kupang, Nusa Tenggara Timur province, with video conference, co-sponsored by the Leimena Institute and Timor Evangelical Christian Church (GMIT) on November 3rd, 2012. More than 20 pastors from the Kupang City Diocese of GMIT church, including Diocese Chairman Rev. Yance F. Nayoan, joined the video conference to discuss “Indonesia Now: Impact of the 1945 Constitutional Amendment.”