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DEWAN KEPAUSAN UNTUK DIALOG ANTAR AGAMA

Kristen dan Muslim: Bersama untuk Martabat Keluarga

PESAN UNTUK AKHIR BULAN RAMADAN Idul Fitri 1429 H / 2008 AD

Saudara-saudari Umat Muslim,

1. Dengan semakin mendekatnya akhir bulan Ramadan, dan mengikuti tradisi yang kini sudah sangat mapan, dengan senang hati saya menyampaikan ucapan selamat dari Dewan Kepausan untuk Dialog Antaragama. Selama bulan ini orang-orang Kristen yang akrab dengan Anda telah turut mengambil bagian dalam pengheningan refleksi Anda dan dalam perayaan-perayaan keluarga Anda. Dialog dan persahabatan semakin diperkokoh. Puji Tuhan!

2. Sebagaimana yang terjadi di masa lampau, perjumpaan persaudaraan ini juga memberi kita suatu kesempatan untuk mengadakan refleksi bersama tentang pokok pembicaraan timbal-balik yang akan semakin memperkaya hubungan kita satu sama lain dan semakin membantu meningkatkan saling pengenalan kita, baik menyangkut nilai-nilai yang dapat kita nikmati bersama, maupun menyangkut perbedaan-perbedaan di antara kita. Tahun ini kami ingin mengangkat ikhwal Keluarga.

3. Satu dari dokumen-dokumen Konsili Vatikan Kedua, yakni Gaudium et Spes, yang mengupas perihal keberadaan Gereja di dunia modern, menegaskan: ”Keselamatan pribadi maupun masyarakat manusiawi dan Kristiani erat berhubungan dengan kesejahteraan rukun perkawinan dan keluarga. Maka umat Kristiani, bersama dengan siapa saja yang menjunjung tinggi rukun hidup itu, dengan tulus hati bergembira tentang pelbagai upaya, yang sekarang ini membantu orang-orang untuk makin mengembangkan rukun cinta-kasih itu dan menghayatinya secara nyata, dan menolong para suami-isteri serta orangtua dalam menjalankan tugas mereka yang luhur. Lagi pula mereka memang mengharapkan manfaat yang lebih besar lagi dari padanya, dan berusaha untuk meningkatkannya” (no 47).

4. Penegasan itu mengingatkan kita dengan tepat sekali, bahwa perkembangan setiap pribadi manusia dan masyarakat, sebagian besar bergantung pada sehatnya keluarga. Berapa banyak orang yang harus memikul, kadang-kadang bahkan untuk seumur hidupnya, beban berat dari luka-luka batin yang diakibatkan oleh latarbelakang keluarganya yang bermasalah atau yang penuh gejolak? Berapa banyak lelaki dan perempuan yang sekarang berada dalam jurang penderitaan karena narkoba dan kekerasan, sedang berusaha dengan sia-sia untuk sampai pada pemulihan dirinya karena trauma yang diderita pada masa kecilnya? Umat Kristiani dan Umat Muslim dapat dan harus bekerjasama untuk menjamin martabat keluarga-keluarga, baik di masa sekarang ini maupun di masa-masa yang akan datang.

5. Umat Kristiani dan Umat Muslim sama-sama menjunjung tinggi martabat keluarga-keluarga. Kita juga telah mendapat banyak kesempatan, baik di tingkat lokal maupun internasional, untuk menjalin kerjasama di bidang ini. Keluarga, di mana ada cinta dan kehidupan, di mana saling menghormati dan keramah-tamahan dijumpai dan diserahalihkan sebagai harta warisan, adalah sungguh-sungguh “sel dasar dari masyarakat”.

6. Umat Kristiani dan Umat Muslim hendaknya tidak pernah boleh ragu- ragu, bukan hanya dalam hal mengulurkan tangan membantu keluarga- keluarga yang berada dalam kesulitan, tetapi juga bekerjasama dengan siapa saja yang mempunyai keprihatinan untuk mendukung stabilitas kedudukan keluarga sebagai sebuah lembaga dan tempat diembannya tanggungjawab orangtua, khususnya di bidang pendidikan. Kiranya hanya satu saja yang ingin saya garisbawahi untuk Anda: Keluarga adalah sekolah pertama di mana seorang belajar untuk menghormati yang lain, dengan memperhatikan sepenuhnya identitas dan perbedaan antara yang satu dengan yang lain. Kiranya hal itu hanya akan membawa keuntungan bagi dialog antaragama dan penghayatan kewarganegaraan kita.

7. Sahabat-sahabat yang terkasih, menjelang berakhirnya ibadat puasa Anda, saya berharap, bahwa Anda, bersama dengan keluarga Anda dan mereka semua yang karib dengan Anda, dengan mendapatkan pemurnian dan pembaharuan dari melaksanakan ibadat yang sangat dijunjung tinggi dalam agama Anda ini, sungguh akan menikmati kecerahan dan kesejahteraan dalam hidup Anda!

Semoga Allah subhanahu wa taala memenuhi Anda dengan kerahiman dan kedamaianNya.

Ketua: Jean-Louis Kardinal Tauran
Sekretaris: Uskup Agung Pier Luigi Celata

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Azas Tigor Figghts For Disadvantaged

Features - April 01, 2004

Emmy Fitri, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Don't expect Azas Tigor Nainggolan to apologize because he won't.

As an ordinary human being, does he ever make a mistake in his personal judgment? "My mistakes are I am easily infuriated and foolhardy enough to speak out."

Activist-cum-lawyer Tigor, as he is affectionately known, has become widely known among the Jakarta public and the city administration's bigwigs for his strident opinions on rampant corruption, injustice and poverty in the capital.

Don't miscast him, though, as a fierce and stern activist leader because his voice is loud, but not in a hostile way. Tigor is easily moved to raucous laughter.

He has sent letters requesting constructive dialog to Jakarta Governor Sutiyoso many times because Tigor "can't stand to see how he manages this city." None have been responded to, though.

"I also can't stand to see other people suffering. Or street kids trying to earn a pittance in heavy downpours or scorching heat. Such scenes just tear my heart apart," he said, shaking his head.

His tender heart, however, functions as a powerful motivational force inside him that ignited his deep involvement in the fight against outrageous measures perpetrated by the state and even fellow activists on the people.

Tigor and his group FAKTA (Jakarta Residents Forum), which was founded in 1996, stand up for residents whose homes are bulldozed and set ablaze by Jakarta administration civilian security personnel, and for banned becak (pedicab) drivers, evicted street traders and many others.

"I started with street kids in the late 1980s. I was asked to help the Jakarta Social Institute (ISJ, a research and non-governmental group working on social issues, particularly street kids)," he recalls.

However, long before that he also took part in a series of campaigns and street rallies to publicize the fate of Cipanas farmers whose land was arbitrarily claimed by the family of former president Soeharto.

"I was jailed and underwent the usual criminal questioning at the Jakarta Police Headquarters for staging a rally. Worse still, the final test on my thesis was disrupted because they apparently went to my lecturers and the university rector to ask them to 'educate' me."
"Yet I haven't stopped, even though I've had different options open to me. I don't know what runs in my blood. It's true that if I stop for a while and think, this job of mine seems really frustrating," says Tigor, who graduated from the Christian University of Indonesia, majoring international affairs and once dreamed of being a diplomat.

"The evicted, banned and unlucky people give us strength. They know we help them and fight for them. That boosts their spirit and therefore it would be a shame if we, who have many privileges and luxuries, did nothing for them," Tigor said.
What makes him tick, though?

Tigor, father of two sons -- Ignatius Stephanus Manogi and Yoseph Madeliano, was born in Medan, North Sumatra, 39 years ago. He was blessed with an egalitarian upbringing. His parents are both moderate, open-minded teachers.
"As the eldest in the family, I was treated the same as my other siblings. We traded arguments -- not of the quarrelsome type -- if needed, and that was done to gain a better understanding of what we thought," he says.
Another privilege is that he was "lucky" to have lived in a kampong neighborhood in his younger days in Matraman, East Jakarta.

"I learned a lot from kampong people. They have a great sense of solidarity and respect for social values and there are strong humanitarian links between them," says Tigor who is married to Tiarlin Apridawati.

Recently Tigor and his group FAKTA (the Jakarta Residents Forum) kicked off a morality movement, known as a social contract, to be signed up to by councillors. The contract is a form of pledge signed by the councillors for not accepting any amplop (envelopes), a term for bribe money.
Inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Tigor said although only a few councillors were willing to sign up to it, he believed strongly that one day more people would press for a contract agreed to by councillors.

Smirks, smirks: He knows that some do that for lack of an understanding of what he is doing.
"It's an attempt worth trying. I dream that Jakarta, this big kampong, will be more like an ancient Greek city where people could participate and watch and were involved directly in the way government ran their administration," he says one sunny afternoon at his rented office -- snug in the middle of Pisangan Baru neighborhood, Rawamangun.
Every Wednesday, the small office is always packed with the city's disadvantaged -- drivers, evicted residents, pedicab drivers and street traders.
"We meet and discuss a variety of issues -- what to do and how to do it," he said.

The regular meeting and the discussions were Tigor's tool to educate the people, opening their eyes to comprehend the need to have their rights served and their obligations fulfilled.
"I told them not to remain silent while their rights are sidestepped and bulldozed."
"We're stronger now, as the people have formed groups and fight in groups. There must be reasons as to why they are victimized by power-holders who are supposed to serve them," he continued.

There was nothing new, though, to his approach because a Brazilian educator, Paolo Freire, wrote in his famous book Pedagogy of the Oppressed, how to teach the oppressed, not only to empower them to rise up, but also to develop within themselves a higher level of integrity.
"I admire Freire. I've read much of the works of Ivan Illich, Machiavelli and Rousseau. Some of their thoughts are deeply instilled in me," he said.
He said that in Jakarta there was nobody to be scared of, not even Sutiyoso nor military figures, as long as he believed he was doing the right thing.

In one of his essays, he used a famous quote from Martin Luther King as an introduction: "... when evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. Where evil men would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men must seek to bring into being a real order of justice."
"If people who were victimized were willing to struggle for a better system, why can't we?" he added.
"For some people I may not be a good man but I know to others I'm one of the few good men," he said.

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Rights defender gives Jakarta's poor a voice

The Jakarta Post, City News - November 10, 2007

To commemorate Heroes Day on Nov. 10, The Jakarta Post is publishing a series of articles in appreciation of people who have made positive contributions to the city.

Today's edition of the Post features two stories about two people working to help urban poors face their hardship easier and to give voice to the powerless. Previously on Friday we ran a story on communities preserving heritage while Monday we will run articles on people who have contributed to education and environmental awareness.

These people are just some of the city's heroes and heroines.
By publishing these articles, the Post wants to highlight extraordinary efforts made by ordinary citizens in the city. We also hope these stories will inspire you.
Adisti Sukma Sawitri, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta
During the last two decades, the city's urban dynamics would not have been the same without the presence of Azaz Tigor Nainggolan.

With Tigor's assistance, urban poor families without Jakarta ID cards were able to avoid evictions and raids.
After the establishment of non-profit organization FAKTA (Jakarta Residents Forum) in 2000, he was able to more successfully pass on the opinions and objections of marginalized citizens to bureaucrats and councilors.
Street vendors and non-permanent residents in the city know they can count on Tigor and FAKTA, which he co-founded, when they have problems.

Yati, who lives in Penas near the Cipinang river in East Jakarta said her family would always have been "squatters" without the help of FAKTA.
FAKTA organized talks with the Environment Ministry and Public Works Ministry, which finally gave residents in the area legal rights to their land after 11 years.
Tigor, who started to assist Penas residents in the late 1990s, gave them hope and a voice in their battle against the administration.

"I cannot understand how he has such a caring, empathetic spirit," said Yati.
Since its establishment, FAKTA's doors have been kept open, providing low-income earners will skills and hope.
With the help of his wife Tiarlin Apridawati, Tigor taught residents of the area near his office in Cipinang Muara how to produce compost. They also taught people living near their house in Mataram, East Jakarta, similar skills.
FAKTA also established a community radio station near its headquarters to provide information and entertainment to marginalized people.

The initiative serves as a means of communication between local residents, who find it particularly useful every rainy season when floods inundate the area.
Tigor said although becoming a community activist was not his ambition at first, he had fallen in love with the work and found it immensely satisfying.
He initially got involved in community activism when he became a human rights activist at a non-profit organization after graduating from the Indonesian Christian University's law school.

In his line of work, he has been involved in a wide array of activities, ranging from educating and training citizens to organizing street protests.
Being imprisoned several times was an obstacle, but it did not deter him.
The government became less repressive in the reform era, but at the same time street protests became common and failed to draw the attention of the city's residents and bureaucrats.
Tigor said the role of non-governmental organizations had shifted, and their focus should be more heavily on mediation these days.

"We (community activists) could not be good mediators if we were always critical and violent. By sustaining good communication with the administration we have a chance to bridge the gap between bureaucrats and residents," Tigor said.
During Sutiyoso's time as governor, Tigor held talks with several members of the City Council and helped to redirect the city's transportation bylaw to focus more heavily on public transit and disabled people.
FAKTA also lobbied for the establishment of social contracts for newly installed councillors in 2004.
"I found Sutiyoso to be an authoritarian leader who disliked dialogue, but there were other good bureaucrats we could talk to in his administration," Tigor said.
He said East Jakarta's Mayor Koesnan Abdul Halim had been most cooperative. Koesnan agreed to cancel the eviction of street vendors from in front of the Military District Command office in Jatinegara after FAKTA approached the administration on their behalf in 2003.
One of the vendors, Saiman, said he was impressed with FAKTA's work.

"FAKTA activists never ask for payment and Tigor is a very good man. I don't know anyone else like him," he said.
Tigor said FAKTA had been criticized in the past by people who accused it of promoting the administration's interests.
"But this isn't true. We work with communities who critically monitor FAKTA," he said.
"People can see for themselves. If our communities leave us, this may be a sign that we have become weak and less supportive," he said.

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