Last modified: 2023-09-14
Abstract
Indonesia has multiple religions, ethnicities, cultures, and customs. Therefore, tolerance must be understood and applied to the teachings and rules of each religion and belief. This research will examine tolerance in Lembang Kete' Kesu, North Toraja, located in South Sulawesi, with tolerance verses as a theoretical basis for studying the meaning and manifestation of tolerance in society. Researchers classify the verses of the Koran with two main themes, namely tolerance as a social being and tolerance as a religious community. This research belongs to the category of qualitative field studies with a phenomenological approach. Data was collected in three ways: observation, interviews, and documentation. The results of the study state that the people in Lembang Kete' Kesu have understood the importance of knowing and implementing tolerance every day because they are aware as social beings cannot do without help from others and aware as religious people who must respect and respect religion each without blaming the other. In addition, their ancestors carried out the attitude of tolerance when Islam first entered Toraja. This significantly influences the attitude of tolerance in today's society compared to people's understanding of the verses of tolerance. So, the researcher concluded that even though the texts and meanings of the tolerance verses are unknown, they still understand and apply tolerance because it is inherited from their ancestors and has become a culture.