{"id":833,"date":"2022-09-07T17:51:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-07T15:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/partner\/https-www-mission-21-org-fileadmin-_processed_-0-4-csm_partner_pgi_59c41ff210-jpg\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:55:14","slug":"pgi-reformed-church-association-in-indonesia","status":"publish","type":"partner","link":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/news\/partner\/pgi-reformierter-kirchenbund-in-indonesien\/","title":{"rendered":"PGI, Protestant Church Federation in Indonesia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text-justify\"><span class=\"TextRun Highlight SCXW84871170 BCX8\" lang=\"DE-CH\" xml:lang=\"DE-CH\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84871170 BCX8\">The role of the Protestant Church Federation in Indonesia (PGI) is more important than in other countries, as it represents a religious minority in a Muslim country with a high level of social control. As the representative body of the Protestant<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84871170 BCX8\">*inside<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84871170 BCX8\">In Indonesia, the PGI has an important consultative role with the government. The PGI is very keen to actively shape and promote interreligious dialog and has already implemented several projects on interreligious peacebuilding.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW84871170 BCX8\">initiated. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun Highlight SCXW84871170 BCX8\" lang=\"DE-CH\" xml:lang=\"DE-CH\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW84871170 BCX8\">Mission<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84871170 BCX8\">\u00a021 has a long relationship with the PGI (founded in 1950), which was established after the Second World War by the working group of the Indonesian Federation of Churches and the\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun CommentStart CommentHighlightPipeRest CommentHighlightRest SCXW84871170 BCX8\">European missionary societies (<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed CommentHighlightRest SCXW84871170 BCX8\">Eukumindo<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun CommentHighlightRest SCXW84871170 BCX8\">)\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun CommentHighlightPipeRest SCXW84871170 BCX8\">was established. The relationship between the Basel Mission (now Mission 21) and the CIP was formally recognized in 1993 when the CIP became a member of the Asian Fellowship, an association of the Basel Mission's partner organizations in Asia.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun Highlight SCXW84871170 BCX8\" lang=\"DE-CH\" xml:lang=\"DE-CH\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW84871170 BCX8\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW84871170 BCX8\" data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335557856&quot;:16777215,&quot;335559740&quot;:271}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\"><span class=\"TextRun Highlight SCXW247917542 BCX8\" lang=\"DE-CH\" xml:lang=\"DE-CH\" data-contrast=\"none\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW247917542 BCX8\">Mission 21 supports interfaith cooperation for peace and justice as well as the new program to support\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun CommentStart CommentHighlightPipeRest CommentHighlightRest SCXW247917542 BCX8\">Migrant workers\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun CommentHighlightPipeRest SCXW247917542 BCX8\">and the prevention of human trafficking. As an umbrella organization of over 80 Protestant churches, the PGI is also involved in the area of anti-corruption and good governance with the support of Mission 21.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW247917542 BCX8\">The CIP is responsible for arranging visas for ecumenical employees of Mission 21 in Indonesia.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW247917542 BCX8\">Mission 21 has a long-standing relationship with the PGI, which is very well networked both nationally and internationally.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-justify\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pgi.or.id\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u25ba Webiste of the PGI (Indonesian)<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":902,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_searchwp_excluded":"","site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"land":[64,37],"class_list":{"0":"post-833","1":"partner","2":"type-partner","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"land-asien","7":"land-indonesien"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/partner"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19408,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/partner\/833\/revisions\/19408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"land","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mission-21.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/land?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}