Konferensi Tahunan
International Conference of Indigenous Religion (ICIR) merupakan konferensi yang diselenggarakan secara berkala setiap tahunnya dengan mengundang komunitas, akademisi, praktisi, dan pemerintah untuk berbagi pengetahuan dan informasi terkait Agama Leluhur. Isu yang dibahas tidak terbatas pada Agama Leluhur, masyarakat penghayat, dan masyarakat adat di Indonesia, tetapi juga isu yang lebih luas seperti kewargaan, demokrasi, pluralisme, dan inklusi sosial.
Konferensi ini pertama kali dilaksanakan pada tahun 2019 dengan melibatkan Program Peduli, Yayasan SATUNAMA, CRCS UGM, dan Komnas Perempuan sebagai penyelenggara. Di tahun berikutnya semakin banyak lembaga dan komunitas yang terlibat. Pada 2020, bukan hanya konferensi, kolaborasi jejaring juga meluncurkan Website ICIR ini sebagai bentuk keberlanjutan program-program kedepannya. Untuk lebih lengkapnya, berikut ini ringkasan konferensi dari tahun ke tahun.
The 1st International Conference on Indigenous Religions (ICIR)
The Constitutional Court Decision 97/2016, followed by the Circular Letter (2018) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, officially legalized Indonesian citizens to mark their identity on ID cards as kepercayaan (indigenous religions). This significant change has invited attention to re-think issues affecting citizens who follow indigenous religions. While the Decision intended to accommodate aspirations of followers of kepercayaan for equal treatment, the Letter has complicated the decision by mandating two separate ID cards, agama and kepercayaan. The Letter has created confusion among followers of kepercayaan, as well as exclusion of other citizen groups who do not affiliate officially with either category of agama or kepercayaan.
The 2nd International Conference on Indigenous Religions (ICIR)
The second ICIR aims to follow up on the first conference which took place in 2019, and more specifically to respond the third year of the Constitutional Court (MK) Decision 97/2016 on indigenous religions. The term ‘indigenous religions’ in this second ICIR is understood as a complex discursive category subject to discussion or even debate among the varieties of egencies: government officials, NGO activist, practitioners, researchers, academics, and communities themselves. The second ICIR perceives its scope as intersectoral with a variety of issues including religious minorities, spirituality movements, environment, women, children, and so forth.
The 4th International Conference on Indigenous Religions (ICIR)
How may democracy be meaningful to all citizens, and especially to vulnerable groups like indigenous people? For more than two decades, Indonesian democracy has been consolidated, largely owing to civil society movements that have succeeded in transforming Indonesia into democratic state. Yet the true meaning of democracy remains distant from many indigenous people and other vulnerable groups. Many scholars have argued that democracy in Indonesia, like in some other countries, has been declining over the last five years (Aspinall and Mietzner 2019; Diprose et al. 2019). They propose at least three indicators of this decline: shrinking civic space, political populism, and intolerance and sectarianism.
The 5th International Conference on Indigenous Religions (ICIR)
How do vulnerable groups talk about democracy? The buildup to the 2024 Indonesian election has shown how discourses and spaces of democracy are dominated by narratives focusing on electoral democracy supporting the interests of political and economic elites. Although electoral democracy is called “the party of the people”, in reality, it is dominated by ceremonial aspects and the politics of conflicting identities. As a consequence, it reproduces social polarizations, and so in turn makes democracy vulnerable. In practice, electoral democracy reproduces discourses of excluded minorities, and it strengthens the marginalization of vulnerable groups.