Kampung Pulo, Pinang Ranti
Aug 1st, 2008, in News, by Patung
A violent neighbourhood dispute over a Christian theological college in East Jakarta.
The dispute over the 19 year-old Arastamar Evangelical School of Theology (Kampus Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Injil Arastamar, SETIA) in the Kampung Pulo, Pinang Ranti, Makassar, East Jakarta area flared up again with on July 25th a violent fight breaking out between local Muslim residents and Christian students of the college.
As a result of the brawl and consequent ill-feeling most of the staff and students of Setia have been evacuated and currently about 470 of them are camping out at the national parliament building, DPR/MPR, at the badminton courts at the back of the building.
Evacuation of students under police guard.
Bayu Kusuma of SETIA says the school authorities refuse to relocate the campus, that they own the land and have the proper permission to use it as theological seminary. kompas
Arastamar School of Theology.
On the other side, Risman Hadi, a representative of local people, says the school must move because residents are annoyed that student numbers keep growing year after year. There are currently 1600 enrolled students at the college. He says the issue has nothing to do with SARA, or sectarian/ethnic conflict. kompas
Sukowaluyo Mintorahardjo of SETIA agreed that religious feeling played no role and suggests that the root of the conflict lays in business interests wanting to see the school gone, so as to allow for profitable development of the land. detik
67 Comments on “Kampung Pulo, Pinang Ranti”
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DXP says:
“Friend the last thing I have to say that you will never understand Islam completely unless you convert in it.”
CONVERT ? surely you can convert a gasoline car to an LNG/NGV car for a better & greener world, DXP agree.
CONVERT from non muslim to muslim ? today there were another bombing in XinYang killing 15 innocent non muslims, and you want us the 2B population to ‘convert’ as easy as becoming an NGV car ?
DXP say … ni hen pen … ! -
DXP says:
DXP really not happy with the third bombing incident by the chinese China muslim yesterday in XinYang. Is this ‘the muslim way’ of converting china to be an Islamic state ? instead of bombing us everyday why not drop a nuclear bomb to our territory as well ?
The chinese man will looks ugly to grow the beard like goats as we are not arab man, typically we are shorter than arab man and if you will force our chinese girls with slanting eyes to wear head to toe mask, it will looks very very ugly too … as their eyes are not big eyes like the Arab women.
However, if we stay what we are, you have seen our china man and women are the top rank in the Beijing Olympic gold medalist as of today status … so don’t change us, we are happy what we are .. -
Cukurungan says:
“Friend the last thing I have to say that you will never understand Islam completely unless you convert in it.”
And you understand it, hmm …?
Be honest, there are so many Muslims and so many converts, how many of them understand Islam completely?Be honest, I do not know but I would like give you an analogy if you have kid below 5 years show to him/her video fornication after while ask them to explain what he/she has been seen. In this case, kids is the same for people who do not believe in Islam see muslim.
Btw: a country cannot be strong just because of a religion. It is also a matter of economy and also of weapons it can product or buy.
Friend, in the islamic world, it does not apply as you can see in history, a few poor Arab Bedouin conquered Roman and Persian Empire
Tomac,
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tomaculum says:
“Be honest, I do not know but I would like give you an analogy if you have kid below 5 years show to him/her video fornication after while ask them to explain what he/she has been seen. In this case, kids is the same for people who do not believe in Islam see muslim.”
What do you want to say, Cuk? I don’t believe in any religion, but I know some good moslems. It depends on what you understand under “good moslem”. And I think it is a sin to compare Islam with fornication, Cuk. Beware, you will come to the hell! 🙂 -
“Friend, in the islamic world, it does not apply as you can see in history, a few poor Arab Bedouin conquered Roman and Persian Empire”
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“Friend the last thing I have to say that you will never understand Islam completely unless you convert in it.”
And you understand it, hmm …?
Be honest, there are so many Muslims and so many converts, how many of them understand Islam completely?
Btw: a country cannot be strong just because of a religion. It is also a matter of economy and also of weapons it can product or buy. 🙂