Indonesia

Promoting reconciliation with creation

Submitted on January 16, 2012 - 3:08 pm

How do we promote reconciliation with creation to our fellow Jesuits in Asia Pacific? With imaginative and powerful images as the members of the Scholastics and Brothers Circle showed in the innovative campaign materials they developed during a workshop on Effective Communications held from December 19 to 30, 2011.

Proclaiming the Gospel from the market place

Submitted on December 15, 2011 - 3:53 pm

Catholics should be using cinema and culture to dialogue with other faiths, and we should be doing so in the market place, said President of SIGNIS World Augustine Loorthusamy in his keynote address at the SIGNIS Asia Assembly in Nepal in October.

Second APTEP begins in April 2012, applications open

Submitted on November 22, 2011 - 2:30 pm

The second Asia Pacific Theological Encounter Programme (APTEP) will be held from April 10 to May 8, 2012.   Conducted by the Indonesian Jesuits, the one-month programme on “Dialogue with Muslims” was first held in 2011.  It was born from the positive successful immersion programme conducted in 2009 with 18 Indonesian Jesuit scholastics living in an Islamic boarding school (pesantren) for two weeks.

Spirituality in campus life

Submitted on November 22, 2011 - 1:56 pm

Spirituality is a vital part of campus life at Kolese De Britto in Jogjakarta, and the health of the spiritual life of the Kolese De Britto family is the main focus of its Campus Ministry. 

So, when Fr Robert Rimmin SJ was assigned to work in the Campus Ministry in August, he asked himself “How do we give and share our Ignatian heritage to the member of Kolese De Britto family?”

He began by learning from others, spending three months in Pymble, Sydney to learn how to give and share Ignatian spirituality with different groups of people.

Listening to the forest

‘This forest is my life’, said a villager of Bogoran. In that remark he said everything that needed to be said. It confirmed all that the Jesuits studying philosophy in Indonesia had learned from a program concerned with the environment.

Fire from the earth

The Jesuit scholastics in Yogyakarta woke one morning last November to find ash covering the ground. Mount Merapi had erupted violently. They asked how they could help those who fled from the area.

Learning God’s business together

A Muslim boy asked his mother: ‘Is it true only Muslims get to paradise?’ Mother replied: ‘Who said that?’ ‘My teacher’, answered the boy. Mother smiled and said: ‘Who gets to heaven or hell is not your business; neither is it your teacher’s.’

St Stanislaw Novitiate celebrates 80 years

Submitted on July 26, 2011 - 1:45 pm

On its 80th anniversary, Saint Stanislaw Novitiate, Indonesia, commonly referred to as Girisonta, offered a warm welcome to 11 new candidates and celebrated the first vows of 10 new scholastics.

The 11 candidates who entered on June 22, 2011 were chosen from 17 applicants in a selection process in early March. Ten came from various seminaries in Java, while another, who aspires to become a Jesuit brother, entered after having been accompanied by the Vocation Promotion team in Yogyakarta.

Students to be agents of peace

Submitted on July 26, 2011 - 11:09 am

INDONESIA – A group of young Catholics, Muslims and Protestants in Yogyakarta have emerged from a peace-building workshop in July inspired to be agents of peace.  They will be organizing activities to encourage interfaith dialogue and understanding such as visits to religious institutions and celebrations of religious festivals.

Learning about apostolates through film

Submitted on July 25, 2011 - 1:55 pm

INDONESIA − With a long history working in media in Indonesia, it is inevitable that Jesuit scholastics in Indonesia produce films as part of their formation.  The scholastics are attached to Studio Audio Visual Puskat (SAV Puskat), the Jesuit established and run audio visual training and production centre in Sinduharjo, on the outskirts of Yogyakarta, Indonesia.  

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