Christian Conference of Asia

Berita
Tomohon, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Friday, 2 June 2000 2
Asian Church Leaders Vote
for a New Structure for CCA
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In the new cluster arrangement ecclesiastical context.

T
he Extra-ordinary General As- there will be four clusters—the Gen- At the end of the session Dr Cariño
sembly in its meeting yesterday eral Secretariat; Faith, Mission and Unity; expressed his satisfaction for Asian ecu-
voted for a new program struc- Justice, Development and International menical bodies adopting this new vi-
ture and constitutional amendments for Relations; and Gender Justice, Women sion proposal.
CCA. and Youth Empowerment. Dr Cariño, who was an Executive
The process, which has been going In his introductory remarks, Dr Committee member before being
on for the past five years since the Tenth Feliciano Cariño reminded the del- elected as the General Secretary of CCA,
General Assembly in Colombo reached egates that the process has been going was instrumental in drafting the first
a culmination yesterday when the Asian on for the past five years to develop a vision and structure of CCA, which was
church leaders from sixteen Asian coun- new program structure for the CCA. printed at the 10th General Assembly
tries unanimously voted for all consti- The proposals for a new structure in Colombo in 1995.
tutional amendments. and vision and the constitutional The Assembly later approved all con-
The new program structure allows amendments prepared by special com- stitutional amendments and rules and
CCA to carry out its program with more mittees and approved by the Executive regulations without any discussion ex-
flexibility instead of limiting its activi- and General Committees of CCA had cept for clarification on certain clauses.
ties within nine program units as in the been circulated to CCA member At the beginning of the Extra-ordi-
past. churches and councils six months prior nary sessions the delegates voted for a
The youth and women delegates’ to the Assembly. standing order, which can be used in
recommendations for separate staff He explained the need for this kind future assemblies and General Commit-
persons for these concerns were also of a new program structure for CCA in tees also as it has become a ‘constitu-
accepted. the emerging Asian ecumenical and tional instrument’.

Want to buy a house?—see page 4

Overheard at Lunch
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Food, Food, Food, Food, Food
They found a mummy in a country that
shall be nameless that they wanted to
know the age of. They thought the
mummy might be as old as the mum-
mies in Egypt, but they couldn’t tell
because they didn’t have the equip-
ment. So the dictator of the country
went into the room with the mummy.
When he came out he said,‘I have iden-
tified the age of the mummy. It is 15,000
years old.’
‘How could you tell age of the
mummy?’
‘I tortured him.’
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‘One woman was coming by and she
was distributing something, saying,
“Snake, snake.”And my bishop could not
figure out what she was serving.’

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n Tomohon they say there is ‘no
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meeting without eating’. You may
‘Did you hear how people talked in the
have already discovered the huge
microphone this morning? They speak
variety of foods served here and the
with their mouth and they put their
huge amounts of it. Our favourites are
nose in the microphone.’
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‘Everything that flies we eat, except for
an aeroplane.’
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What’s Really Going on Here
‘We eat everything with four legs ex- From Our Indonesian Correspondent
cept table.’
Ngana Rupa Mabo Noh!
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The morning service on the first day,
‘This is crazy.’ ( ... as the constitutional
which was combined with communion,
amendments droned on and on ... )
was proceeding well. The bread and
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wine were specially prepared.The wine
‘I think this is exceeding my ecumeni-
was served in traditional bamboo cups,
cal committment ... ’
one participant to drink one cup. In this
way the amount of wine to drink was a
little bit more than usual. In fact, many
B e r i t a participants, especially Indonesians, did
drink it all up. When the service was
over, and as the participants were go-
‘News’ ing out of the auditorium, one of the
choir members came out with a red
No. 2 2 June 2000 face and a quivering walk. Seeing this,
another choir member said,‘Ngana rupa
Published daily during the mabo noh!’ (‘You seem to be drunk.’)
Eleventh General Assembly Everyone laughed at him. He might re-
of the ally be drunk for consuming too much
Christian Conference of Asia wine in one go.
Tomohon, North Sulawesi
Indonesia, 1–6 June 2000 Nobody Knew That Yesterday
Was a Holiday
Editorial Team Yesterday morning everybody tried
Geoff Alves very hard to get things done, such as
Sophie L. Bodegón documenting, preparing the hall, mak-
Ronald Caraig ing the newspaper etc. When we are
Tertius Lantigimo engrossed in our work we tend to for-
Marina True get what day it is. Yesterday morning,
after the morning service, I went down
meatballs with nutmeg and coconut
tart.
Here Bishop Pervez and presidents
Margaret Rodgers and Aye Mo Tin try
some of the local cuisine.
to the town to get some films devel-
oped. To my surprise, all the photo
shops were closed.What has happened
in this town? I wondered. After some
time, I realised that yesterday was As-
cension Day. So it was a holiday! How
could this be? My goodness!
‘Time for Fullness of Life for All’
Indonesians are very good at twisting
words or meanings. For example, KUD,
which is the abbreviation of Koperasi
Unit Desa (literally ‘Village Unit Coop-
eration’), can be twisted to Ketua
Untung Duluan (literally ‘chairperson
prosper first’). Here at the Assembly the
local organising committee is busy
making the atmosphere comfortable for
everyone. In keeping with that motiva-
tion, it has called in a food vendor sell-
ing bakso (meatball soup). It paid him
in a lump sum and then let everyone
have it for free. On the cart gratis (‘for
free’) is inscribed.A girl, queuing up for
the bakso, promptly said,‘This is good.
Just exactly what the CCA theme says,
“Time for fullness of life for all!”’ In In-
donesian what she meant was it is the
time to fill up your stomach to the full
for everyone ...

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Youth Forum Challenges Participants
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t a five-day youth forum held just
before the Tomohon Assembly,
CCA member churches and
councils were challenged to be in soli-
darity with the Asian youth adversely
affected by the social, political and eco-
nomic crises plaguing the region for the
last decades.
In a unity statement issued at the end
of the forum, the more than fifty youth
delegates, stewards and observers at-
tending the 11th General Assembly
urged the Asian churches and councils
to build on four themes discussed dur-
ing the forum:
• defining and redefining the ecu-
menical agenda in the light of
being church,
• overcoming violence,
• developing alternatives to
globalisation,
• mainstreaming gender.
The youth forum was also an oppor-
tunity for the Assembly youth delegates
to issue a resounding call to the par-
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ticipants to ensure that new young lead-
ers are always being trained, empow-
ered and involved in the churches.
Sponsored by CCA Youth, partici-
pants to the forum, held 27–31 May at
Kakas, Minahasa, in Indonesia, con-
nected with their sisters and brothers
in Thailand, Myanmar, Bangladesh, India,
Korea, Japan and the Philippines as they
shared, listened and reflected upon
their ‘stories of struggle for the fullness
of life for all’.
‘The forum was an opportunity to
share stories and in the process build
international relations among the par-
ticipants to be in solidarity with the
struggles of our Asian brothers and sis-
ters, especially in Indonesia,’ com-
mented Rachel Kronberger, an Austral-
ian youth participant.
The participants underwent expo-
sure visits to the gold mining industry
in the district of Tatelu, to refugee
camps in the town of Kairagi and the
municipality of Bitung, to see exploited
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commercial sex workers plying their
trade around Bitung, with women work-
ers at the fish processing companies in
Bitung, with landless workers in
Tampasu and with the Muslim minori-
ties in the villages of Jawa Tomohon and
Jawa Tondano.
These visits enabled the participants
to understand the effects of
globalisation on the life of Asian peo-
ple, particularly in India.
The exposure visit was an ‘eye-
opener’ for first timer Virmel Largo, a
Filipino youth steward based in Cebu.
‘The widespread economic displace-
ment, cultural subjugation, political re-
pression and blatant human rights vio-
lations are not only happening in my
own country, but in all parts of the
world,’ Largo said.
‘We as Christian youth are then chal-
lenged to find Jesus in the faces of the
suffering and struggling peoples in Asia,
and we are called to be in solidarity
with them,’ he ended.
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Sweet Singing in the Choir

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he Manado Youth Chamber church in Malalayang in Manado for that when the choir realised that the com-
Choir, under their conductor church’s 112th anniversary service. Al- poser of the hymn they had just sung,
Richard Awuy, are as good a though only formed in January 1999, ‘In Christ There Is No East or West’, was
choir as you would find anywhere.They the choir has already achieved a high in the congregation.
performed at the Youth Forum closing professional standard. Dr I-to Loh, our In July the choir is going to Holland
ceremony on 30 May and impressed eminent musicologist, considered the to give concerts as part of the 250th
everyone with their beautiful singing. choir was very good indeed. He was anniversary of the death of J.S. Bach.We
Here they are performing at Sion GMIM swamped with autograph hunters wish them well.

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Want to Buy a House?
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have fallen in love with the beauti- told, and taken the five minute drive to the ‘House of Unity in Diversity’ here
ful Minahasan architecture. The the west of Tomohon to the village of at Bukit Inspirasi was erected in a cou-
houses are traditionally built high Woloan, which has a ‘display village’ of ple of days.
off the ground to catch the breeze, houses for sale. However I told my friends the house
made entirely of wood and beautifully If you decide you wish to buy one, would not be suitable in my cold cli-
decorated with columns and fretwork. they dismantle it and export it to wher- mate—I would freeze to death in win-
I made the mistake of saying I would ever you like.The price is an incentive, ter. Pity really ...
like to get one for my wife as a present. just Rp. 50.000.000 (about US$6,000), But they simply think I am trying to
‘You can buy one if you like,’ I was and they can be re-erected quickly— get out of giving my wife a present.

House for sale in the village of Woloan

The interior of the house, a design very suitable for this area’s weather
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Forum Sets Women’s Agenda
for Assembly
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tarting off with no framework and
simply working around stories
and Bible studies, the pre-Assem-
bly Women’s Forum, has galvanised
women to challenge the 11th CCA As-
sembly to take a prophetic stand
‘against the heavy stones of oppression’
that hold women back from realising
their full potential.
Carmencita Karagdag said that by
reading the Bible with new eyes, the
forum’s thirty-five participants nar-
rowed down some forty issues into
three:
• patriarchal culture and religion
that renders women’s gifts and
role in church and society invis-
ible,
• violence against women in the
domestic sphere and the
workplace as well as the church,
• globalisation that excludes vast
numbers of God’s people.
Karagdag took the floor at the ple-
Youngest Asian Church Seeks
Entry into CCA
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he Christian Church in East
Timor, the youngest church in
Asia, is seeking membership in
the CCA.
Born in the turbulence of its coun-
try’s successful quest for independence,
the East Timor church has an estimated
15,000 to 17,000 members in sixty-one
congregations. Its General Assembly
meets for the first time in July to elect
a new governing board. That assembly
is also expected to change the church’s
name to the Greja Protestante Timor
Lorosae.
Francesco de Vasconcelos, general
secretary of the East Timor church, says
the church now has only eleven pas-
tors, nine of them back from months
of being refugees in the wake of the
violence that erupted after the Septem-
ber 1999 referendum that resulted in
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nary yesterday with the proposal to
create an independent desk for women
to ensure that women’s concerns are
given special focus and visibility in the
life of CCA.
The forum gave a clear view of the
impact of globalisation on the lives of
participants.This time no-one is talking
about the positive side of globalisation
so it was easy to unite on its costs,
Karagdag said.
A statement issued by participants
said globalisation was a ‘life-denying
force that has kept women in bondage.
Apart from poverty, landlessness and
the exploitation of migrant labour, the
statement highlighted ‘globalisation’s
drive to homogenise culture. The up-
surge of religious fundamentalism and
the re-assertion of ‘retrogressive ele-
ments’ of traditional culture have
merely served to reinforce existing pa-
triarchal prejudices against women.
‘There can be no fullness of life for
the vote for independence. They need
to train at least twenty new pastors and
some fifty lay leaders.Although the cur-
rent pastors can help train new ones,
de Vasconcelos says that they would
need two or three visiting professors
in practical theology to train elders and
lay evangelists.
More than that, the church needs to
study what it means to be church. ‘We
have been known as an Indonesian
church, a church that people go to. It is
time we become a church for the peo-
ple, a church that goes to the people,
the church of a new nation,’ de
Vasconcelos said.
To realise this vision, the church sees
itself as working with the transitional
government in reconstruction projects
that would directly benefit the people.
‘This is part of the church’s mission,’
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all unless both women and men are
empowered to transform oppressive
social structures and participate equally
in the realisation of a just church and
society,’ the statement said.
Reflecting on the deliberations on
structural matters at plenary yesterday,
Assembly observer Judo Poer-
wowidagdo said the women were not
merely raising a women’s issue. ‘If the
church is serious about this, it should
see it as a justice issue,’ he said. He sug-
gested that a woman be appointed to
head the proposed justice cluster.
Karagdag noted that the forum had
quite a number of young women who
had a choice to go to the youth forum
but opted to attend the Women’s Fo-
rum.
‘I chose to go because I identify with
women’s concerns and with the youth,’
said Chandra Jesudason, 26, an Assem-
bly delegate from Sri Lanka.
The forum was held on 27–30 May.
Vasconcelos said.An urgent need is the
building or repair of some 10,000
houses that were burned during the
fighting between independence fight-
ers and those seeking integration with
Indonesia.
Asked what he expected from the
CCA Assembly, de Vasconcelos says,‘The
CCA should know about the situation.
We are a new country that must start
anew.’
East Timor’s population of 650,000
is predominantly Roman Catholic.
Two other churches are seeking af-
filiation with the CCA. These are the
Malabar Independent Syrian Church
and the Evangelical Church of Maraland
in northeast India. The Kampuchea
Christian Council and the National
Council of Churches of Nepal are also
applying for membership.
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 No Meal Is Complete without It
Our roving correspondent woofs down a hearty meal
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‘Everything that moves, we eat’ is a lo-
cal saying in Minahasa.
To test that saying I gladly accepted
the gracious offer of a member of the
host committee. Hendrik Warokka is an
English teacher in Manado. He also
owns a microlight and so he took me
and his girlfriend, Jane Merung, out to
lunch.
The restaurant was in a lush, rural
stretch of road just at the edge of
Tondano. It is a spacious place with no
walls, but a roof, a television and a
peaceful expanse of green vegetation
to look at. I perused the menu, written
in both Bahasa Indonesia and English.
Hendrik ordered rice, sayur pakis
(fiddlehead fern fronds), tinoransak
goreng (spicy fried pork), sate babi rica
(sweet spiced pork satay) and the dish
that I especially wanted to try—ikan
anjing. Spicy dog meat.
I wanted to order bat as well, but the
restaurant was out of stock.
We sat down at a table and talked.
Hendrik seemed to have a photo-
graphic memory of San Francisco. But
I wanted to get him to talk about the
local cuisine.
I asked about the fiddlehead ferns.
Jane seemed to have an encyclopedic
knowledge of the nutritional properties
of the local food. She spoke little Eng-
lish so Hendrik translated for me. Fern,
it seems, like other green stuff, is good
for the eyes and the skin.
Wishing Us Success
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I asked about dog and Hendrik
proved to be an enthusiast.
‘What kind of dog do you eat?’
‘We eat any kind of big dog,’ he said.
‘Male or female.’
‘People absolutely love dog,’ he con-
tinued.‘Especially the young generation.
They say a party is not complete with-
out dog.’
I asked about the medicinal proper-
ties of dog meat and Hendrik translated
for Jane. ‘When we get a lot of choles-
terol in our bodies we eat it to reduce
the cholesterol. It’s very hot and spicy,
but it’s good for the health.’
I mentioned that in Korea and Viet-
nam dog meat was supposed to have
aphrodisiac qualities, but Hendrik
seemed surprised to hear that. ‘You
know how dogs behave,’ I said.
The waitress brought us our food
and Hendrik offered a short prayer.
Then we tucked in.
The fiddlehead fern was cooked dry,
but was spicy, a bit salty and flavoured
with a lemony tang. It resembled collard
greens or perhaps beet greens and was
delicious.
The satay was decent though the
smoky flavour overwhelmed the taste
of the pork.The tinoransak goreng was
dry and not very hot being spiced more
with rosemary than with chilli.
I tried the dog meat last. It was dog
ribs, really, chopped into small bits. It
was gristly, spicy, chewy and full of bits
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of bone. It had a taste that grew on me
and I liked it more as I learned better
to negotiate the treacherous bones. It
tasted a bit like beef. It wasn’t nearly as
hot as I expected (the ferns were the
hottest item of the meal) nor as hot as
Hendrik had expected, either. But there
was plenty of spice.
Jane and Hendrik were washing
their meal down with lime juice. ‘Dog
is spicy,’ said Hendrik, ‘so we tradition-
ally drink lime juice with it because it
has a cooling effect.’ I was drinking beer,
which has the opposite effect, but then
my tradition about what to drink with
spicy food is different.
I asked why spicy food was so popu-
lar in Indonesia. Hendrik thought about
this a while then said, ‘We don’t have
heaters in the room so we eat spice to
make our bodies hot. See? I’m sweat-
ing now. Actually the weather is cold,
but I am sweating because of the food.’
It was pouring rain outside.
We finished our food and I had a pile
of little pieces of rib on my plate.
Didn’t I tell you?’ asked Robert.‘If you
eat dog you need an extra plate.’
The bill came to about US$5 for the
meal and the drinks. We left content-
edly full.
‘Next time I’ll take you out for rat!’
said Hendrik.
Yes, We Have No
Pictures
S
orry, we have no photo-
graphs of yesterday’s
events. If you read our cor-
respondent’s report on page 2
you will discover that yesterday
was a public holiday here, and all
the shops were closed, including
our photo processor. So that is
why we do not have a picture of
our correspondent’s meal. Unfor-
tunately we also do not have any
pictures of the communion serv-
ice.We will run that story tomor-
row when our normal service
resumes.
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W
omen from all over North
Sulawesi gathered to meet
for the Christian Evangelical
Church in Minahasa (GMIM) women’s
forum, held this year at the Treman
church on Friday, 26 June. Activities in-
cluded the installation of the new com-
mittee, music and dance and a dramatic
reflection of the role of women as de-
picted in the Bible.The Governor of the
Province of North Sulawesi spoke to
the women on the responsibilities of
Christian women in the home, in the
church and in society in these troubled
times in Indonesia.

Below: Liturgical dancers Women in the Bible: The women enter the tomb on Easter Sunday

A small section of the huge crowd that overflowed the Treman church at the GMIM women’s service
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Asia Ecumenical Course 2000
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The General Secretary of CCA, Dr Feliciano Cariño, tells AEC participants of the work of CCA

F
rom 16 May to 10 June twenty cially privileged to hear from experts munities. We will end our course by
participants from ten countries through various modules: the Asian con- planning steps to ground our learning
are together in Tomohon to ask text (the sociopolitical analysis of In- in our congregations and communities.
the question,‘What does it mean to be donesia, the geopolitical situation in Our prayer is that, in Aotearoa New Zea-
church in Asia?’As we explore this ques- Asia), the ecumenical movement’s his- land, Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indo-
tion we are developing a new vision to tory (globally, and a historical review nesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri
lead us on our journey of faith towards of traditions), dialogue with the Mus- Lanka and Taiwan there will be new
oikumene. This vision is based in the lim community (an overview of Islam stirrings of ecumenical life that truly
reality that oikumene, like any move- in Indonesia, Islamic spirituality), per- move in the Holy Spirit for fullness life
ment of people, needs to be lived spectives from the CCA People’s Forum for all.
amongst congregations and communi- and Women’s Forum and now sharing
ties, not just organisations and struc- in the CCA Assembly as observers.
tures. Alongside the lectures, participants Roundtable Meeting with
Led by CCA staffer, Cora Tabing– in the AEC have engaged in exposure Ecumenical Partners
Reyes, and the AEC Dean, Stephen visits, staying with GMIM families and
Suleeman, we have followed a holistic worshipping together, as well as living Sunday, 4 June 2000, 6.30 pm
learning model. With an emphasis on with Muslim families and sharing our Gardenia Hotel
daily worship together, which comes understandings of faith and life.The in-
from out of our own faith traditions and teraction with the Muslim community Bus will leave for Gardenia
practices, and sharing of the situations has been especially revelatory for those Hotel at 6.20 pm in front of the
in our home communities, our learning participants whose home countries are dining hall
has been enriched. We have been spe- marked by division between faith com-

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