II SEMINARJESEDU-Jogja2024
June 24th – 28th, 2024Yogyakarta, Indonesia
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In preparation for JESEDU-Jogja2024 a Virtual Pre-Seminar is taking place between April 1st - 30th, 2024.
About
The II Seminar JESEDU-Jogja2024 is an international event that follows the II Colloquium JESEDU-Global 2021 in the 9-year cycle of international gatherings for the ongoing exercise of discernment for our schools. The seminar is for a specialized group of participants, by invitation only, and will focus on Catholic/Jesuit Identity and In-Depth Faith Formation in Our Schools.
The event is scheduled for June 24-28, 2024, and will take place at De Britto College in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It will be preceded by a virtual pre-seminar that will be held April 1-30, 2024.
The seminar is organized by the Jesuit Schools Association of Indonesia (ASJI) and the Indonesian Province of the Society of Jesus with the support of the Jesuit Conference of Asia Pacific (JCAP) and the Secretariat for Education of the Society of Jesus.
One hundred participants from the six conferences of the Society of Jesus are expected to attend the event. The members of the Secretariat for Education and ICAJE (International Commission on the Apostolate of Jesuit Education) will also participate.
Seminar Theme
Educating for Faith in the 21st Century
As an apostolic work of the Society of Jesus, the Education Apostolate animates the mission of the Society of Jesus, defined by GC 36 as a ‘Mission of Reconciliation and Justice with God within Humanity and with Creation.’
Inspired by the Universal Apostolic Preferences we ‘Journey With Youth’ (UAP 4) as we commit to ‘Show the Way to God’ (UAP 1).
To assist with the above, this Seminar will focus on ‘Educating for Faith in the 21st Century’. The aims of the Seminar are to:
- Clarify the meaning of being Catholic/Jesuit Schools at the service of the Gospel and the Church in the contexts of today.
- Promote in-depth faith formation in the context of interreligious and multi-convictional dialogue in the service of our mission of justice and reconciliation.
- Clarify the place of Ignatian Spirituality in the faith formation process for students and educators.
- Identify the challenges and opportunities of educating for faith within the secular/religious fundamentalistic contexts.
Participants will engage in a range of activities that will address the aims, promote conversation and provide reflection time to enact for participants to explore how they can deepen their effectiveness of educating for faith in their local context.
GOAL
To reflect and explore, as a global network, our responsibility and methods to educate for faith in the 21st Century.
Focus
How can our schools prepare to educate for faith in the 21st Century?
De Britto College – Seminar Venue
SMA Kolese De Britto or De Britto in short, the location of the II Seminar JESEDU-Jogja2024, is an all-boys school and is one of the eight Jesuit schools in Indonesia. SMA Kolese De Britto is the official name of the school in Bahasa Indonesia, which is easily translated as De Britto College in English. SMA stands for Sekolah Menengah Atas, which means that it is an upper secondary school and the word kolese, an Indonesian word for college, is commonly used to refer to Jesuit schools in the country.
De Britto College
Founded in 1948, the school initially started as SMA Kanisius, a coeducational school aimed at accommodating students who graduated from Catholic junior high schools in nearby areas. The school was divided into an all-boys school and an all-girls school in 1949. The all-boys school bears the name De Britto, and it is run by the Jesuits, while the all-girls school is run by the Sisters of Charity of St Charles Borromeo.
De Britto currently has more than 825 students that come from all corners of the country. The students are richly diverse in origins, ethnic groups, religions, languages, and economic backgrounds. It offers numerous extracurricular activities and formation projects to foster leadership skills, social responsibility, and personal growth among the students.
The Special Region of Yogyakarta
Before 1945 Yogyakarta was an independent sovereign monarchy, which began in 1755 AD. The Sultanate of Yogyakarta originated from the Islamic Mataram Kingdom, which was established in 1586 AD and ended in 1755 AD. On September 5, 1945, the two-hundred-year-old Sultanate officially integrated itself into the Republic of Indonesia, the independence of which had been proclaimed one month earlier. As a province, the Special Region of Yogyakarta has a governor as its head, and according to the 2012 Yogyakarta Privilege Law, the governor candidate should always be the monarch.
The Special Region of Yogyakarta, or Yogyakarta in short, is made up of 1 city and 4 local governments called Kabupaten: the city of Yogyakarta, Kulon Progo, Bantul, Gunung Kidul, and Sleman, where Jesuit Sanata Dharma University and De Britto High School are. With a large number of tourist spots, Yogyakarta is a popular tourist destination among domestic as well as foreign tourists. The famous Buddhist Borobudur and Hindu Prambanan Temples, probably two of the most popular tourist attractions in Java, are located on the border between the Special Region of Yogyakarta and the province of Central Java.
Yogyakarta is dubbed the center of Javanese Culture. The Sultan Palace regularly hosts a number of cultural events open to visitors. It is also called the city of students. Institutions of secondary and higher education have attracted a large number of people from all corners of the country to come for their studies.
The Meaning of JESEDU-Jogja2024 Logo
The event logo is made colorful to represent joy in our works. It is in the shape of a GUNUNGAN, a Javanese word meaning mountain. In Javanese tradition, the GUNUNGAN is the symbol of life and the world. The Jesuit symbol is put inside the GUNUNGAN to refer to what Pope Francis said at the 36th Congregation of the Society of Jesus, “The world is our home.” We are invited to joyfully do greater works in the world in the light of God’s love.
The books above and below the Jesuit symbol, together with the gates, are an invitation to explore knowledge and educate for depth.
The plants, two human figures with open arms, doves, and crosses inside the GUNUNGAN symbolize reconciliation with creation, with others and self, and with God. We are called to take good care of the environment and collaborate with others, as our joyful responses to the love of God.
