Addressing Social and Religious Segregation (Indonesian)

This document is a Policy Brief numbered 3/SI/2019, published by the SETARA Institute, titled “Addressing Social-Religious Segregation”. This brief highlights crucial issues related to polarization, identity-based politics, and the intensifying social-religious segregation in Indonesia, driven by a trend toward conservatism (conservative turn).

The analysis in this policy brief identifies concrete forms of segregation that undermine social cohesion in society, highlighting two main areas in particular: the emergence of exclusive, religion-based housing communities and homogeneity in the education sector (exclusive schools). As a solution, this document offers a structured matrix of policy recommendations for governments at the national, provincial, and district/city levels—for short-, medium-, and long-term frameworks—to strengthen cross-identity social interaction and prevent the spread of segregation.