Guarding Religious Moderation

One of the legacies of Lukman Hakim Saifuddin, a former Religious Affairs Minister of the Republic of Indonesia (2014-2019), is relatively strong partiality towards religious moderation.

He incorporated a message of religious moderation in almost every one of his speeches. By the end of his term of office, Lukman had succeeded in including a policy on religious moderation in the 2020-2024 National Medium-Term Development Plan. His commitment to mainstreaming religious moderation is also evident in the publication of the Religious Affairs Ministry’s white paper, “Religious Moderation”.

The policy on religious moderation must be protected, translated and broken down into operational and crosscutting subprograms In the hands of the new Religious Affairs Minister, Fachrul Razi.