{"id":68660,"date":"2025-11-05T21:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=68660"},"modified":"2025-11-05T21:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T20:47:12","slug":"unity-in-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/unity-in-diversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Unity in Diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Bandung, Indonesia. <\/em><strong>The First Indonesia International Conference on Anthroposophy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the introduction to Theosophy during Ita Wegman\u2019s formative years on the island of Java, at the turn of the 19th\/20th centuries, that led her to Rudolf Steiner and her destiny with anthroposophy. Not far from her birthplace, the first Indonesia International Conference on Anthroposophy (IICA) was held recently in Bandung, Indonesia, known as the \u201cintellectual capital\u201d of the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With Dr. Michaela Gl\u00f6ckler as keynote speaker and a diverse international and local group of presenters, over 200 participants assembled at the prestigious Parahyangan Catholic University for this inaugural event. The four days of the conference in July\/August provided a wide range of themes and experiences enlivened by anthroposophical spiritual science, including economics, education, health and nutrition, biodynamic farming, and various arts and crafts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the Dutch rule of Java in the 1930s, there was a short-lived Waldorf school in Bandung, the third-largest city in Indonesia. Today, there are a half dozen fledgling kindergartens and a couple of Waldorf schools in the country. Biodynamic agriculture was introduced some years ago, but anthroposophy in other fields of endeavor is still relatively unknown here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world, with over 283 million people, 17,000 islands, and hundreds of languages, making it something of a dormant superpower. Its national motto, \u201cUnity in Diversity\u201d, directly addresses the theme of the conference, \u201cNo One Left Behind: Towards Sustainable Well-Being.\u201d The entire IICA conference, blessed by the gentle courtesy and warmth of its host people, seemed to be naturally accompanied by the spiritual presence of Dr. Wegman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"mailto:smz.waldorf@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">smz.waldorf@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image\u00a0<\/strong>Bandung. Photo: Rifqi Ali Ridho<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bandung, Indonesia. The First Indonesia International Conference on Anthroposophy It was the introduction to Theosophy during Ita Wegman\u2019s formative years on the island of Java, at the turn of the 19th\/20th centuries, that led her to Rudolf Steiner and her destiny with anthroposophy. Not far from her birthplace, the first Indonesia International Conference on Anthroposophy (IICA) was held recently in Bandung, Indonesia, known as the \u201cintellectual capital\u201d of the country. 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