CIDISS. Amid the hustle and bustle of hate speech to the practice of acute intolerance marred by violence, caring for the sense of peace becomes a necessity in itself that must be pursued. Although anxiety continues to overshadow the pace, but the spirit of peace should not be extinguished. When and wherever we go, the effort of disintegration of the nation must continue we must be kept away by switching to not tolerate it.
Yes, the noble spirit that reverberates through the love of Christmas becomes important for us to contemplate together. Because, without the spirit of peace, we will only be a tired nation to build without ever really enjoy the results. Because indeed, the development as if always proportional to the destruction of the other side.
Then what can we contemplate from the love of Christmas in the midst of speech and destructive actions that continue to stifle the harmony of life?
Just to contemplate is easy. The practice of realization is really difficult. However, the hope of continuing to preserve and spread peace for the sake of unity in the distinction should not be extinguished. To borrow Paulo Freire’s appeal in his Education of Hope, life will never be meaningless (meaningless) without any sense of hope.
The noble spirit born in that loving day should have been realized without dim. That we need to keep unity and unity as a sovereign nation. We need for the purpose of our independence which to this day has not been maximally we can achieve.
Because this attitude or awareness of diversity is the main fundament, the next thing we should also recommend is the education of tolerance. We have to realize that our lack of knowledge of diversity does not extend to widening the barbarity of barbarism, such as a lack of respect for human dignity and tolerance in attitude or religion. So here the appreciation of tolerance becomes the great agenda we work on together.
By: Mirwan Achmad*)