Cempaka Culture and Tourism: Indonesian President Calls for Tolerant Ramadan

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Indonesian President Calls for Tolerant Ramadan

Jakarta Globe, Camelia Pasandaran, Anita Rachman & Arientha Primanita | August 11, 2010

Jakarta. Ahead of the start of Ramadan today, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said that the Islamic holy month should be free of violence and called for harmony among the country’s various religious groups.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has called for
peace and tolerance in the Muslim holy month of
Ramadan. (Antara Photo)

“If there is any sign of violence, it should be prevented by police,” he said at the Presidential Palace on Tuesday, in his first public comments to address a recent string of violent acts against religious minorities.

Last week a violent mob attacked the mosques of the minority Muslim sect Ahmadiyah in Kuningan, West Java.

And on Sunday, members of the Batak Christian Protestant Church (HKBP) Bekasi, also in West Java, were chased down and beaten with sticks by a mob after they tried to hold Sunday services.

These are just the latest incidents of what pluralism advocates call a worrying trend, and one that the government has paid little attention to.

The Setara Institute for Peace and Democracy released a number of reports showing that these incidents are on the rise this year, and noted that in some cases regional governments had played a part in the violations.

Yudhoyono said authorities, both in the central government and the local and provincial levels, should be more sensitive and responsive to interfaith conflicts to prevent them from escalating.

“I hope ministers and the regions pay more attention to this matter. If there are differing opinions, you should find solutions,” he said. “I hope the police and regional governments cooperate to ensure security and public order.”

Ismail Hasani, a Setara researcher, said he hoped the president’s statements were more than lip service and would translate into real action.

“If there are incidents again, the National Police chief must take real action to protect the victims,” he said. “Police often only detain [hard-liners] to cool down the situation and then release them soon after without taking them to court.”

Ismail said If the government is committed to upholding the right of religious belief and practice it should annul discriminatory regulations such as the one that restricts the activities of the Ahmadiyah community and the one that requires community consent prior to the establishment of a house of worship.

Calls have also been mounting for the government to fulfill its mandate of protecting religious freedom by cracking down on hard-line groups such as the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), which has conducted a number of violent raids.

On Tuesday, the House of Representatives agreed to hold a meeting to discuss the hard-line groups. “The government has been working very slowly [on this issue], we cannot let violence happen again,” said House Deputy Speaker Pramono Anung, from the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P).

However, Djoko Suyanto, the coordinating minister for political, legal and security affairs, said disbanding hard-line groups is not an effective solution.

“I can disband it now, but tomorrow it will only change its name and continue on. It’s not about the name, not about the organization, but about what they do,” he said.

“It is easy to make an organization, but the most important thing is how the head of that organization stops their people from behaving that way.”

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