An Interview with Dr H. Marsudi Syuhud, General Secretary of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU): On Indonesia’s Diversity and Interfaith Experience

Peace & Diversity

The Global Peace Festival (GPF) Malaysia recently interviewed with Dr. H. Marsudi Syuhud, fondly known as Pak Marsudi, on his view about Indonesia’s diversity and interfaith experience. He is currently the General Secretary of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest Muslim organisation in Indonesia, and is an influential force in Indonesia’s peaceful coexistence among its Muslim-majority,…

Midnight football participants

Good Bye

Midnight Football, Youth Empowerment

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.  – Thomas Meeha. Sometimes it’s hard to say goodbye to the person who taught you a lot, in the ways that you can never imagine, not to say you depend on someone so much, but when you feel all alone, left out…

UNITY IN MY EYES

Peace & Diversity

Do you ever encounter any personal problem with the Malays, Indians or Chinese? Perhaps because they are richer than you or doing better compare to you? Instead of working hard to improve your life’s condition or looking at the bigger picture of our complex socio-economy, it is more convenient to put the blame on the…

midnight football participant

Wonderwall

Midnight Football, Youth Empowerment

Hey there, how are you? I assume you are in good health, so then how’s life? Tough? Feeling like you just want to give up because things don’t seem to work well? Have you tried trying? Which then you tend to fail and you try again and yes more failure and you start blaming on…

GPC 2013 Soft Launch: Keynote Address by Tan Sri Joseph Kurup, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department

Peace & Diversity

In conjunction with the Soft Launch & Press Conference for the upcoming Global Peace Convention 2013 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia themed “Unity in Diversity – Building Social Cohesion and Sustainable Peace Through Universal Aspirations, Principles and Values”; Tan Sri Joseph Kurup, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department and co-chair of GPC 2013 gave a meaningful…