PERAN PEMUKA AGAMA YANG TERGABUNG DALAM FKUB DALAM MERAWAT TOLERANSI DI KOTA SINGKAWANG

Abstract

Tolerance between religious communities in Singkawang City can bewell maintained without escape from the role of religious leaders whoare members of the Religious Harmony Forum or FKUB SingkawangCity. The religious leaders are representatives of religious communityorganizations in Singkawang City. Research on the role of religiousleaders in maintaining tolerance in Singkawang City is importantbecause Singkawang City is expected to become a reference for othercities and regencies in Indonesia in building tolerance betweenreligious communities in order to create harmony and peace insociety. The research approach used in this study is a qualitativeapproach with ethnographic methods. The role of religious leaders inmaintaining tolerance in Singakawang City can be done in variousways, (1) Religious leaders in Singkawang City, in maintaining inter-religious harmony, conduct inter-religious dialogue. (2) In increasingtolerance between religious communities in Singkawang City, theefforts made by religious leaders are to transmit peaceful messages oftolerance in accordance with the teachings of the books of eachreligion. (3) In increasing the intensity of communication betweenfollowers of different religions in Singkawang City, religious leaderscan integrate into the community in a socio-cultural context