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Thursday (22/2), a group of community leaders from Rakhine State, Myanmar visited the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Indonesia and met with Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi.  The visit was part of a study tour in Indonesia from 20-27 February 2018, that will comprise visits to Jakarta and Ambon.  

The purpose of this visit is to expose the community leaders to Indonesia’s experience of inter-faith engagement, multiculturalism and reconciliation. More specifically, in dealing with ethnic and sectarian conflicts.

These experiences are aimed to provide the awareness that the relations between communities can improve again after communal violence and at the same time to provide some ideas and tools as to how to improve the situation in Rakhine State.  The participants of the study tour are 10 influential community leaders (5 from the Rakhine community and 5 from the Muslim community) from the northern Rakhine State. They are from different educational background, different group of age and different occupation.

In 2017, for the first time, Indonesia held Interfaith-Dialogue with Myanmar. The Interfaith Dialogue is also intended to exchange experiences of how in a pluralistic country like Indonesia, the harmony of society can be maintained.Sekar/Pers Release Kemlu