From 8th to 21st November 2017 the Goethe-Institut organized a study program with the slogan “Life of Muslims in Germany”
In October 2017 fourteen Indonesians from different parts of the archipelago were offered the possibility to take part in a two week-long educational journey in Germany. The program’s targets were to bring together young Indonesian intellectuals with German Muslims and to inform about specific Islamic discourses in Germany. In Berlin, Frankfurt and Göttingen the participants had the chance to visit museums, mosque parishes, Islamic unions and the German Federal Foreign Office as well as to exchange with Muslims and scholars of Islam.
Speakers:
- Irma Wahyuni (Lecturer for English linguistic at STKIP Muhammadiyah Bogor)
- Muhamad Heychael (Director of Remotivi und lecturer for media ethics)
- Juwita Trisna Rahayu (Journalist at Antara News)
- Dr. Heinrich Blömeke (Director of the Goethe-Institut Indonesien)
- David Gudisch (German Embassy Jakarta)
- Daniel Bax (Journalist from Germany)
Moderator:
- Ahmad Junaidi (Jakarta Post)
During this Sharing Session the participants of the journey will report about their trip in 10 minutes-long presentations to share their impressions from Germany with the audience. In the following panel discussion the participants, Dr. Heinrich Blömeke, David Gudisch and Daniel Bax (connected via Skype) will deepen various aspects of the journey program. Interested visitors will have the chance to ask questions.
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The journey which took place from 8th to 21st November 2017 occurred with the slogan Life of Muslims in Germany. Special highlights of the program were the visits of the Sunnite Şehitlik mosque in Berlin-Neukölln and the Ibn-Rushd-Goethe mosque, which receives special attention since its founding because of its female imam and multi confessional bias. Further stations have been a visit of the Koran research project Corpus Coranicum, where scientists from the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities seek ways to reconstruct the original text of Koran as well as the visit of the Federal Foreign Office, where the tour group was welcomed by Heidrun Tempel, the Director for Research and Academic Relations Policy and Cultural Relations Policy.
After a successful completion of the journey and lots of positive feedback the Goethe-Institut Indonesia is scheduling to offer the program in 2018 again.
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