Abstract
Identity brings about positive values and demands commitment, but also potentially spreads seeds of conflict. Learning from identity as dynamically moving borders, from the phenomena multiple identity, and from discovering the meaning of religion, it is suggested, that Christianity views the so-called ‘shaded-in area’ or convergent area as a place for mutual enrichment, deepening Christianity as orientation, bringing about solidarity, and learning from another views to face the complex reality of the world.
Highlights
JOURNAL of ASIAN ORIENTATION in THEOLOGYIn the 70’s in Bandung city there were conflicts between young people, in small scales
Big cities, like Jakarta and Bandung, provide interesting phenomena related to identity
Like in the other big cities, there meet peoples from all around Indonesia so that culture meets culture, religion meets religion. In such situation emerge at least two phenomena: first, the hardening an identity that brings about conflicts and second, multiple identity
Summary
In the 70’s in Bandung city there were conflicts between young people, in small scales. Some years ago there were many news in media about conflicts (“tawuran”) inter-regions and inter-students from different schools Apart from another factors, like economy (poverty), social (broken home families), or may be political (exploited by some ideologies) those conflicts show the same pattern: we (or ours) and you (or yours): “Let us fight them, because they are not ours”. Behind these scenes play another and important dramas: dramas of identity and commitment. Some groups as ethnics and religions have initiation rite for someone who wants to enter the group. This commitment could be exacerbated by another factors so that conflicts between “identities” take place
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