Young people’s attitudes towards inter-ethnic and interreligious socializing,courtship and marriage in Indonesia

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This paper presents the attitudes of high school students in Indone-
sia towards inter-ethnic and inter-religious socializing, courtship and marriage.
It also explores how different personal characteristics and social conditions
such as gender, ethnicity, type of school and community affect these attitudes.
The basic findings come from a survey of more than 3,000 students in senior
high schools in five provinces of Indonesia: Jakarta, Yogyakarta, West Sumatra,
Central Kalimantan and Bali. Survey data were supplemented with data from
interviews and focus group discussions with students and from participant
observation in and around the same schools. The authors found that most stu-
dents were positive about friendships with people of different ethnicities and
different faiths. However, most students did not agree with inter-religious
marriage, because they perceived that their religion forbad it. This research
was part of a large team project examining how education can contribute to
building a more tolerant and multicultural Indonesia.

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