Edu-community practice: what the community means for religious education equality in Indonesia

Entrenched in Indonesia’s context, this research explores the Edu-community practice in society and the religious communities’ engagement in religious education for all religions (REFAL) in community-based RE. This research addresses the gap in providing RE for each religion within formal education through community-based education. It aims to address the lack of RE content in formal education. This research includes three characteristic areas: urban (Yogyakarta), rural (Bangka Island) and remote (Kupang and Sabu Island) to explore various contexts of religious communities. It involves 40 interviewees from Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Edu-community is a community educational practice to empower REFAL. Edu-community creates religious educational systems involving religious leaders, youth, parents and children. Each religion has its form of RE, where children, teens and young adults are the target participants.