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I’d like to pursue a little more, Pramaha Kant’s question. He’s a Buddhist monk.
I think he’s at the level of Buddhist intellectual. He’s probably be one of the religious
leaders himself. And he asked this question. Why are you asking this question?
Are you not confident of leading society? No, really, this is not sarcastic, it is really…
want really to know.
The second related to interfaith. The case of Indonesia, the woman leader,
interfaith school led by women, not religious leaders. How different is that, when the
religious leader is doing that, interfaith dialog or interfaith activities? Have you seen
that? Can you compare? That’s non-layperson, a lay, a woman doing interfaith dialog
compare to religious leaders.
Well, in the case of Indonesia, because after 2000, there was a big conflict
between Muslim and Christian. Religious leaders are seen by many to be part of the
problem instead of part of the solutions. So therefore, when this interfaith school was
initiated by common people, women, it’s more receptive. The public is more receptive.
And it started not from religious issues. It started from daily life problems in the
household, in the market, in the economy. And eventually, the issue of theology
comes later, when they already talked to each other about the daily life problem.
Eventually, when they talk about conflict, they talk about the role of religion in a
context that is already prepared. But when religious leader is the one who start, it
might be effective to certain group, certain location, but not all the time.
Thank you very much. The reason why I’m asking this question because of
Professor Tantawee. He’s asked me. But because the principle for peaceful society is
about participation, engagement, that’s what I’m doing, so, as a religious leader, if I
try to do what I think is right, maybe it’s wrong. So, that’s why I’m asking this
question because I would like to know how our distinguished think. In my opinion,
right now, in terms of individual religious leader, both Buddhist and Muslim are fine.
But in terms of institution, I mean institutional movement, we have no effective
enough… enough effective mechanism to help. For example, for some religious
organizations, normally provide or arrange the meeting yearly. But hate speech on
social media every second, so how you’re gonna solve the problem? That’s why I’m
asking and I think it’s better if we can take a look at the bright side and the same
way try to find the right solution as well. That’s what I’m thinking. And I would like
to share with Professor Chantawee later about what I think about this in this details.
But in general, yes, I’m doing, and most importantly we need amplification. Right now
the religious leader who try to do the right thing and stand up to invite to try to
make voice of peace be heard. Their voices are not heard because we lack of
amplification. Hopefully, this panel would help us to do that, to amplify the voice of
ª£¸²£ª±¡¡²¥¸h¡¢h¢µÈ you’re talking about multi monoculture. Actually I would go a bit further. I would call
peace. Thank you.
I’m also working with Ekachai on this peaceful society. I think I like the idea
it mosaic society. You have the war. You can have one color or you have many
