Legislative Relations
Legislative Relations is a strategic forum to facilitate state leaders in executive, legislative, and judicative as they contemplate their roles as ‘salt and light of the world’ related to state issues.Promoting Church’s Participation
Source: PGI.or.id IL News 022/2019 Waingapu, Eastern Sumba, West Timor. November 11, 2019. During the 17th General Assembly of Council of Churches in Indonesia at Waingapu, Eastern Sumba, Leimena Institute was involved further in proposing 2019-2024 social politic...
Women, the Weaver of Democracy
Source: pgi.or.id IL News 021/2019 Waingapu, Sumba Timur, NTT. November 4th, 2019 at 07.30 am, was the fourth day of Women General Assembly meeting. Participants were still numbered at the venue. However, mama-mama (married women in Sumba) who prepared breakfast were...
Church and 2019 Pre-Election Battle of Ideology
IL News 005/2019 Church and State Strategic Forum (FSGN) Monday, January 28th, 2019, Working Council Assembly of Indonesia Council of Churches, Cisarua, Bogor. Church should play active role in building Indonesia nationhood. Along the line,...
Churches Welcoming Local Elections 2018 and Presidential Election 2019, Public Leadership, and Pancasila
Church and State Strategic Forum - Forum Srategis Gereja dan Negara (FSGN) Indonesia Church Council (PGI) and Leimena Institute Partnership Palopo, 23-25 January 2018 IL News 003/2018 If we depart from Makassar, South Sulawesi, heading north 370 km, we will arrive at...
Tearing Off the Walls that Separate the Church and the State
IL News 004/2017 In partnership with National Council of Churches in Indonesia (PGI), Leimena Institute organised the Church and State Strategic Forum (FSGN) on 24-26 January 2017, before the general conference of the Working Committee of PGI. This forum aims 1) to...
Understanding the Relation of Church and Politics
IL News 010/2016 The 3rd Strategic Forum of Church and Politics Jakarta, April 7-9, 2016 Since early days, churches and Christians in Indonesia have established itself as part of the community to build the nation. In order to encourage churches to develop its...
Church and Its Connections with Politics, State, and Democracy
IL News 005/2015 Strategic Forum of Church and Politics Jakarta, February 9th-12th, 2015 Politics! A word that carries two contradictory extremes. On one side, it is seen as dirty and taboo, so one shouldn’t have to involve themselves in it. On the other side,...