Basudara Stories of Peace from Maluku: Working Together for Reconciliation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781925495140)

Ihsan Ali-Fauzi is the Director of the Centre for Studies in Religion and Democracy (PUSAD), Paramadina Foundation and a lecturer at Paramadina Graduate School, Jakarta. He studied history and political science at Ohio University, Athens, and the Ohio State University (OSU), Columbus, both in the US. He writes for a number of national mass media, including Kompas, Koran Tempo, Majalah Tempo, The Jakarta Post and journals such as Studia Islamika and Asian Survey. As part of the PUSAD Paramadina team, he published Disputed Churches in Jakarta (2011) and Pemolisian Konflik Agama di Indonesia [The Policing of Religious Conflict in Indonesia] (2014). Jacky Manuputty is a minister in the Protestant Church in Maluku. He is also Director of the Research and Development Agency (Balitbang) of the Protestant Church in Maluku (GPM). He is the Founder and Director of the Inter-Faith Organisation in Maluku (LAIM). He is a graduate of Jakarta Theological College (1989), Driyarkara School of Philosophy, Jakarta (2003) and has an MA in the graduate program on Pluralism & Inter-religious Dialogue at Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT-USA (2010). He was born in Haruku, Central Maluku Regency in July 1965. He has been awarded the Ma'arif Award 2005 in the category of peace worker and the Tanenbaum Award, New York, USA in 2012 for the category of Peacemakers in Action. He is often invited as a speaker at national and international seminars and discussions on the theme of peace and inter-faith relationships. Irsyad Rafsadi is a junior researcher at the Centre for Study in Religion and Democracy (PUSAD), Paramadina Foundation, Jakarta. He is responsible for the Ahmad Wahib Award Program in the same foundation (2013-2014). Irsyad is a graduate of the Syariah Faculty, of the State Islamic University (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta, and attended Summer School in India, on Human Rights and Development, conducted jointly by Hivos (Netherlands), The Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS, Bangalore, India), and Centre for Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies (CRCS-UGM, Indonesia). In addition to writing for Koran Tempo, Majalah Tempo and Jakarta Globe, he has, as part of the PUSAD Paramadina team, published Pemolisian Konflik Agama di Indonesia (2014). Zairin Salampessy, usually known as 'Embong', is a graduate of the Fisheries Faculty, Unpatti. He was known as a pavement artist in Ambon from 1987 to 1992. In 1994, Suara Maluku newspaper asked him to draw caricatures and so he became a journalist, an assistant editor and then senior editor until 1998. He then joined the Baileo Maluku Network NGO in Ambon. When the conflict struck Ambon in 1999, he, together with a number of colleagues, immediately formed a team of Muslim and Christian volunteers, who worked to handle the victims of the conflict. He continued doing this until he moved to Jakarta, where he was involved in advocacy at a national and international level through the Advocacy Team for Case Solving in Ambon (TAPAK). While at TAPAK Ambon, he was on several occasions, part of the Indonesian NGO delegation to the Assembly of the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland. He has now returned to Ambon and has become a freelance photographer for the Antara Photographic Bureau and a volunteer in the Inter-Faith organisation in Maluku. He also leads the Maluku Photo Club that has a mission to photograph communities as a way of being 'peace provocateurs'