Binsar Jonathan Pakpahan Lecturer at Jakarta Theological Seminary (Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Jakarta) b.pakpahan@sttjakarta.ac.id Summary Pastoral Worker, Preacher, Theologian, Interpersonal and Leadership Trainer, Intercultural-Inter Religious dialogue campaigner, Drummer, Song Writer, God's servant. My motivation comes from my personal belief, connected to my context and my experience in life. Specialties Systematic Theology, Reconciliation Issue, Conference Designer, Inter Religious Dialogue, Anti-Corruption Movement, Motivational Speaker, Music and Leadership. Experience Lecturer at Jakarta Theological Seminary (Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Jakarta) January 2012 - Present (2 years 11 months) Lecturer on the subjects: Western Philosophy & Modern Philosophy Social Theology Religion and Society Christian Ethics Pastor at Huria Kristen Batak Protestan May 2008 - Present (6 years 7 months) Pastor of HKBP ordained in 2008. HKBP is the largest Protestant church in South East Asia, with 3,5 million members, mostly from the ethnic group Batak. Was working as assistant for the Secretary General in 2004. Was serving as junior-pastor for HKBP Salemba, Jakarta (2005-2007). Pastor at Gereja Kristen Indonesia Nederland August 2010 - December 2011 (1 year 5 months) GKIN is Indonesian - Netherlands Christian Church. Full time pastor responsible for the GKIN congregations in the regio Arnhem/Nijmegen and Tilburg. PhD Student at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam June 2007 - December 2011 (4 years 7 months) PhD Student on Systematic Theology with the dissertation tittled: "God Remembers: Towards a Theology of Remembrance as a Basis of Reconciliation in Communal Conflict" Drummer & Custodian at Crossroads International Church of Amsterdam Page1
August 2007 - May 2010 (2 years 10 months) Drummer for Crossroads Int. Church. Custodian for the Operation Team: set up and break down the facility. Conference Designer & Speaker at Other Experiences 2003-2009 (6 years) 1. Speaker at Religion in Freiheit und Würde" Mission 21, Luzern, Swiss, Oct 2009. 2. Conference Assistant, Human Security Conference, Swiss July 2008. 3. Initiator International Youth Forum, Bandung Indonesia, June 2008. 4. Speaker at Agenda for Reconciliation Conference at Caux, Switzerland, August 2007. 5. Trainer and facilitator for Youth Leadership Camp of GKPI, March 2007, Samosir, North Sumatera. 6. Resource person, Statement Committee in Youth Forum of 50th Assembly of Christian Conference of Asia, March 2007, Siantar, North Sumatera. 7. Organizer and facilitator of Camp Pemuda Nusantara (national Youth Camp), January 2007 in Cipanas, with the Theme Peace within Diversity. 8. Facilitator of Anti Corruption Workshop in Jakarta, Padang and Bali (November, December 2006). 9. Facilitator for Youth Session of Asian Muslim Action Network Conference, Jakarta, October 2006. 10. Core Team of the Coordinator of the 12th Asia Pacific Youth Conference, Cipanas, 23-30 July 2006. 11. Participant in Global Youth in Action and also the Conference of Quest for Global Healing in Bali, May 2006. 12. Has participated as contributor on International Theological Conference of IRTI in Seoul (July 2005), Houten Netherlands (October 2004, 2005, and 2007). 13. Has participated as member of music and worship team, as well as facilitator, in PERWATI congress (Persekutuan Wanita-wanita berpendidikan Teologi or The Communion of Women with Theological Background) in Salatiga (2003), and Cipayung (2005). 14. Has participated as musician and participant at the congress of Reformed Ecumenical Churches (REC) in Jogyakarta, 2000. Lecturer at Jakarta Theological Seminary September 2006 - May 2007 (9 months) Lecturer on subjects: Christian Ethics, Kapita Selekta, Ethics, Religion and Science. Assistant for the Secretary General at Persekutuan Gereja-gereja di Indonesia November 2005 - August 2006 (10 months) Persekutuan Gereja-gereja di Indonesia is the Indonesian Communion of Churches, it is a national church council. I was responsible to help the General Secretary to arranging meetings, concept formal letters, handling guests, lobbying, concept official statement, and letter of recommendation. Skills & Expertise Theology Religion Conferences Page2
Music Teaching Research Leadership Development Church Events Books Public Speaking Pastoral Care Public Relations Leadership Ethics Nonprofits Publications Identity and Remembrance Brill February 2008 Memory and identity cannot be separated. As the later part of the tradition, Christian identity will always be connected with the history of Israel. This article will explore how Israel, as the chosen people of God, shares their identity in their remembrance of God. The Old Testament shows that Israel actively re-experiences those memories as their identity and not just as an act of calling something into mind. Thus, the memory of God s saving action is very important for Israel to create their identity, and it shapes the present and future Israelites tradition. This brings us to the reflection of what can be our true Christian identity through our memories from the many layers of our identities. Sharing a Common Story for an Indonesian Context Brill 2008 People tend to forget their past hurt because it is too much pain to bear. Forgive and forget is a saying that is imposed on victims about their traumatic past. This saying is not entirely wrong, but before we get to that point, we need to remember our hurt in order to forgive. The remembrance of the past is, in fact, needed to be able to forgive and reconcile. This is not an easy thing to do, especially when the role of victim and perpetrator is not clearly defined. However, it is still a better option for achieving real forgiveness and reconciliation than forgetting. Perpetrators and victims need to tell their stories Jakarta Post June 2, 2006 Indonesia has faced a lot of conflicts that have to be solved in order to move forward towards a new atmosphere of peace and reconciliation. Without true reconciliation among conflicting parties, it would be difficult to go into the future together. Without true forgiveness and reconciliation, there will be prejudice, vengeance and revenge. Therefore, true forgiveness and reconciliation can only be achieved when victim and perpetrator share their stories about painful events. Page3
How Remembrance Is Used in Communal Atrocities PMUBooks 2009 An article in the book Dari Kejadian Hingga Budaya Populer: pemikiran kontemporer teolog muda protestan. Holiness and Reconciliation: The Challenge of an Ecclesiology of Reconciliation Lutheran University Press March 2011 The church is a place where God s love is expressed in the forgiveness of sins and reconciliation and healing are celebrated. Through faith we are gathered as body of Christ in the church. It is a place where we are reconciled not only with God but also with one another. However, stories of church conflicts are not unusual. We find separations there where we are supposed to be reconciled: simul iustus et peccator. Seberkas Bunga Puspa Warna Yamuger Indonesia September 2010 Editor of the Book of Friends, 75 year ds Harry van Dop. This book consists Indonesian and international writers writing on several subjects: theology, liturgy, and church music, which happens to be the interest of the editor as well. God Remembers: Towards a theology of remembrance as a basis of forgiveness in communal conflict VU University Press 2013 God Remembers is a search for a theological basis of remembrance in communal conflict. Starting with a case study of a real conflict within the HKBP/Christian Batak Protestant Church in Indonesia in the years 1992-1998, this book relates a biblical understanding of remembrance to the work of Johann Baptist Metz, Alexander Schmemann and Miroslav Volf, three theologians who have made significant contributions to the understanding of conflict and remembrance in their own respective Christian traditions. The author argues that history s traumatic wounds are healed by a transformative remembrance of the past rather than by forgetting or ignoring what has gone wrong. And that the act of remembrance in the liturgy of the Eucharist is a highly appropriate place for the actual healing of memory. Teologi Ingatan sebagai Dasar Rekonsiliasi dalam Konflik Jurnal Teologi dan Filsafat Diskursus October 2013 Abstrak: Dengan semakin majunya teknologi memori, sekarang dunia menghadapi cara baru untuk menyelesaikan ingatan-ingatan traumatisnya. Kecenderungan (trend) baru menunjukkan bahwa mengingat, dan bukan melupakan, adalah langkah penting untuk menyelesaikan konflik menuju rekonsiliasi sejati. Teologi Kristen menawarkan kesempatan untuk mengalami kesembuhan dari ingatan yang menyakitkan dalam anamnesis dalam perayaan Ekaristi. Tiga orang teolog dari latar belakang berbeda membantu merumuskan bagaimana mengingat dapat terjadi dalam proses rekonsiliasi. Johann Baptist Metz meminta kita untuk mengingat mereka yang menderita. Alexander Schmemann mengatakan bahwa letak ingatan ada dalam Ekaristi. Miroslav Volf meminta ingatan yang jujur dalam proses mengingat. Penyembuhan dapat terjadi Page4
ketika mengingat dilakukan dengan jujur dan ingatan tersebut dibawa menjadi milik komunal, yang akhirnya membebaskan individu dari ingatan pahitnya. Kata-kata Kunci: Mengingat, ingatan, rekonsiliasi, konflik, memori, lupa, memaafkan, Ekaristi, komunal, Perjamuan Kudus. EKARISTI DAN REKONSILIASI Sebuah Upaya Mencari Eklesiologi Gereja-gereja Pasca Konflik Jurnal Teologi Gema Teologi April 2013 Abstract Churches that were established as a result of conflict need to reconcile as an effort toward the reconciliation of the one church. The effort to find good ecclesiology started with the theological foundation found in the celebration of the eucharist as church s lex orandi. Not only the place to reconcile, the eucharist is a place where hospitality is being exercised toward the whole creation. Therefore, churches are asked to rethink and renew their eucharistic theology, to be reconciled with God, the community, and the whole creation. Keywords growth; separation; conflict; reconciliation; lex orandi; the eucharist; forgiveness; liturgy; ecclesiology; hospitality Is the Indonesian Public s Amnesia Merely a Matter of Verb Tense and Vagueness? The Jakarta Globe April 10, 2012 Tale of Misguided Logic in Bekasi The Jakarta Globe April 15, 2013 Perjalanan Semua Mendayung: Buku 2-65 tahun Pdt. Dr. Einar M. Sitompul UPI STT Jakarta February 22, 2014 Editor. A Fetschrift of Rev. Dr. Einar M. Sitompul for his 65th birthday. The book has 46 articles, with 4 major themes: religion and society, culture and theology, contemporary issue, and personal acknowledgement. Analisis Kritis Liturgi Perjamuan Kudus HKBP Indonesian Journal of Theology, Vol. 2 No. 1, 2014. pp. 42-64. July 2014 The liturgy of the Eucharist is a communal rite that becomes a very important foundation of the theological construction of the church. The church must have a good foundation of the Eucharist as a place where they can encounter God as a community. As a result, the theology that comes from this encounter will encourage Page5
the church to act out in her theology in the world. In 2014, Huria Kristen Batak Protestan (Protestant Batak Christian Church/HKBP) is trying to reformulate their church order. This research encourages HKBP to look at their theology of the Eucharist more seriously. By using a critical analysis towards the HKBP liturgy of the Eucharist, this paper shows the inconsistency between HKBP church documents view on the Eucharist. The inconsistency is caused by the different times of the writing of the documents, which were never synchronized. Languages English Indonesian Dutch Batak (Full professional proficiency) (Native or bilingual proficiency) (Professional working proficiency) (Full professional proficiency) Education Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Systematic Theology, 2007-2011 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Master of Theology, Systematic Theology, 2004-2005 Activities and Societies: IRTI Jakarta Theological Seminary Bachelor, Pastoral Theology, 1998-2003 Interests Faith, Love, Family, Friends, Theology, Drum, Books, Football, AC Milan, Food, Travel, Movies, Adidas. Page6
Binsar Jonathan Pakpahan Lecturer at Jakarta Theological Seminary (Sekolah Tinggi Teologi Jakarta) b.pakpahan@sttjakarta.ac.id Contact Binsar Jonathan on LinkedIn Page7