The final of the six training seminars was held in Indonesia’s capital which is also a special province. With more than ten million people, Jakarta is Southeast Asia’s most populous city and Indonesia’s political, financial and economic center. In terms of training content, this last seminar has also covered all the main pillars of the training module... more...

The fifth training, which is also the last project activity outside of Jakarta, took place in Riau province on the island of Sumatra. Riau has a population of about 5.5 Million people and is, mainly due to its abundant resources of rubber, palm oil and crude oil, comparatively well developed. Of the 5.5 Million people who live in Riau... more...

The fourth training took place in Indonesia’s second most populous province East Java, which is also the birth place of the Nahdlatul Ulama. These two facts result in a very large grass-root base of Nahdlatul Ulama supporters, thus making this organization quite influential in that particular province... more...

The third training seminar took place in Mataram, the capital of the province West Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Barat). The main island of NTB, Lombok, has come into focus recently for various attacks and rights violations against followers of the Ahmadiyah sect, which emphasizes the relevance of a training promoting intra- and inter-religious... more...

The second of the six training sessions was held in South Kalimantan’s provincial capital Banjarmasin. This province has a population of about 3,5 Million people of which more than 95% are Muslim. South Kalimantan’s economy relies heavily on agriculture, which makes for a big supporter base among Nahdlatul Ulama... more...

After the training of trainers (ToT), the project “Support for democratization through Islam dialogue” has reached the fifth phase, namely the actual training session. Over the course of about three months, the project team will travel to the six project provinces Jakarta, East Java, South Kalimantan, Riau, West Nusa Tenggara and Yogyakarta... more...

The fourth activity within the frame of the project “Support for Democratization through Islam Dialogue” was the training of trainers. The goal of this event was to prepare designated trainers from the six project regions for the subsequent activity, namely the actual training sessions. The four-day event, which was held in Jakarta... more...

The third activity of the project was also the first workshop with a real output that will be used later on, namely the training module on democracy and Islam. To this end, 28 participants attended a five-day workshop in order to elaborate a training module with the title “Civic education for faith-based organizations” (Pendidikan Demokrasi Untuk FBOs)... more...

This two-day workshop marked the second activity in the action plan of the project. Its purpose was to appraise the values and perceptions of the Indonesian Muslim community on basic democratic values like human rights, gender equality and pluralism... more...

This three-day workshop in Jakarta was the first activity of the action and marked the actual beginning of this project, introducing all the stakeholders to each other and setting the further course and guidelines for the entire duration of the project. It was held in the Hotel Akmani in central Jakarta from February 8th – 10th... more...