Tolerance Reverberates from Remote Regions

KOMPAS/SEKAR GANDHAWANGI

Women perform the Idul Fitri prayer at the Al Jauhar Yasfi Grand Mosque, Kampung Sawah, Bekasi city, West Java, Wednesday (5/6/2019). During the prayers, a number of Catholics helped organize traffic around the mosque. This has been done for the last several decades.

In several remote regions across the nation, tolerance reverberates harmoniously. Tolerance has become part of locals’ everyday life. They live side-by-side amiably despite differences.

Such tolerance can be found in Buneng hamlet, Boro village, Selorejo district, Blitar regency, East Java, and Kampung (hamlet) Sawah, Pondok Melati district, Bekasi city, West Java, among other places. In these two locations, peaceful life amid diversity has been inherited through generations.