{"id":292584,"date":"2011-07-07T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T12:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/indonesia-focolare-centre-inaugurated-in-yogyakarta\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:43:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:43:24","slug":"indonesia-focolare-centre-inaugurated-in-yogyakarta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/indonesia-focolare-centre-inaugurated-in-yogyakarta\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia: Focolare Centre inaugurated in Yogyakarta"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Indonesia is the fourth most populated country in the world<\/strong>, with some 240 million inhabitants, living in the 17,000 islands that comprise the Indonesian Archipelago. The house was inaugurated with a Mass and house blessing on 2 July 2011. It will be the first stable centre of the Focolare in Yogyakarta,<\/strong> a city on the island of Java, with some 3 million inhabitants and it is known as a centre of Javan art and culture. Why did the focolarini from nearby Singapore (one of the richest countries in the world) decide to move to a country with one of the lowest GDP index in the world, leaving behind excellent professions? In arriving at our decision, we took many things into consideration,\u201d <\/em>says Nicolas, one of the focolarini. \u201cespecially our decision to spread the charism of unity, and Indonesia, where the majority of the population is Muslim, is a land of great religious tolerance. It\u2019s enough to recall one of the supporting columns of their Constitution which goes more or less like this: \u2018We are many but one\u2019, that is, unity in diversity. But it would be a long story to explain how God brought us to this point.\u201d<\/em> We came to know the people of the large Archipelago due to the frequent natural disasters which Indonesia has undergone in the past few years: tsunamis, earthquakes and the latest eruption of one of its volcanoes. The focolarini were generous with the local people, bringing forward a project for the victims. In this way many relationships were begun which, little by little, created a community, beginning with the youths. \u201cMoreover,\u201d <\/em>Nicolas continues, \u201cit\u2019s a country that\u2019s on the forefront, very open to interreligious dialogue, <\/em>and our spirituality helps us to construct relationships of friendship and fraternity among members of the different religions who live in the country.\u201d<\/em> In fact, the population is comprised of Muslim faithful, Buddhists, Hindus and many other religions. Christians constitute 16% of the population. \"\"<\/a> \u201cIt was moving,<\/em> Xiong adds, \u201cto see the joy in these people and how they prepared things, down to the smallest detail, with such a sense of hospitality which is their characteristic<\/strong>. More than 200 people came, many youths, with some Muslims among them.\u201d <\/em> People arrived from Sumatra (Medan), Java (Jakarta and Semarang), from Borneo (Kalimantan), Sulawesi, West Timor, and even Singapore and Malaysia (Johor and Penang). Hans Jurt<\/strong>, who is responsible for the focolarini worldwide, was also present together with a few other men and women focolarini from neighbouring Asian countries. Hans said: \u201cWe realized that leaving Singapore and moving to Yogyakarta was following God\u2019s plan, a step that He made us take.\u201d It is very nice to see how the community of Singapore feels that it has given its focolare to Indonesia. <\/em> [nggallery id=65]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 2 July 2011 a focolare centre was opened in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. This courageous decision brought great joy to the 200 people who attended the inauguration, including Christians of different denominations and Muslims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[893],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-292584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-focolare-worldwide-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}