By Zuly Qodir
This presentation will give a description of the ethnographical border and political top minority group located in South Sulawesi, i.e. the believers Towani Tolotang. Despite its minority status, this community seems to be influential in politics by which currently become the will of the political regime of Muslims and Hindus, where both of them are scrambling for mutual acknowledge and enter in the tradition of the religion: Islam or Hinduism. This community develops variety of strategies with which its peculiar identity is able to survive in various forms, such as in economyand politics. This presentation is based on field research and library for several years dealing with political citizens pressed for by the large number of discriminatory treatment.
Presented at the Fourth Al-Jami’ah Forum and Conference "Sharing Identity and Religious Tradition: Islam and other factors in South East Asia"
Venue:
PAU Building/Rektorat
UIN Sunan Kalijaga
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
14-16 December 2012
Organised by:
Al-Jami’ah Research Centre
Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University
http://www.aljamiah.org
Available at: http://aljamiah.org/images/stories/umum/book_of_abstracts.pdf
This presentation will give a description of the ethnographical border and political top minority group located in South Sulawesi, i.e. the believers Towani Tolotang. Despite its minority status, this community seems to be influential in politics by which currently become the will of the political regime of Muslims and Hindus, where both of them are scrambling for mutual acknowledge and enter in the tradition of the religion: Islam or Hinduism. This community develops variety of strategies with which its peculiar identity is able to survive in various forms, such as in economyand politics. This presentation is based on field research and library for several years dealing with political citizens pressed for by the large number of discriminatory treatment.
Presented at the Fourth Al-Jami’ah Forum and Conference "Sharing Identity and Religious Tradition: Islam and other factors in South East Asia"
Venue:
PAU Building/Rektorat
UIN Sunan Kalijaga
Yogyakarta, Indonesia
14-16 December 2012
Organised by:
Al-Jami’ah Research Centre
Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University
http://www.aljamiah.org
Available at: http://aljamiah.org/images/stories/umum/book_of_abstracts.pdf
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