25.03.2009
Indonesian Theologian Sinaga Joins LWF Studies Department
Indonesian theologian Rev. Dr Martin Lukito Sinaga has assumed the position of Study Secretary for Theology and the Church at the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) Department for Theology and Studies (DTS) for an initial two-year term.Prior to joining the LWF, Sinaga, 40, was dean of studies at the Jakarta Theological Seminary in the Indonesian capital for two years. In 2007, he worked as LWF/DTS Asian region consultant for church and interfaith relations. He taught religion, church and interfaith dialogue at the Jakarta Theological Seminary from 2001 until 2007, prior to which he lectured in religion at the Roman Catholic Driyarkara School of Philosophy in Jakarta. In 1996, he founded the volunteer Society of Inter-Religious Dialogue, (MADIA). He was ordained in 1995 as a pastor of the Simalungun Protestant Christian Church (Gereja Kristen Protestan Simalungun -GKPS), which he had served as a vicar and minister from 1992 to 1995.
In 2001 Sinaga earned his doctorate in theology with the dissertation, "The Post-Colonial Identity of an Ethnic Church in Civil Society" from the then Singapore-based South East Asia Graduate School of Theology, now in Manila, Philippines. He graduated with a master's in theology from the Jakarta Theological Seminary in 1995, where he had obtained his bachelor's degree. He pursued a course on religious studies at the Mission Academy, University of Hamburg, Germany, 1996 to1998. He has served on various committees including the theological commission of the Council of Churches in Indonesia and MADIA.
He has written and edited several papers and publications in English and Bahasa Indonesian on the ethnic identity of the church, promoting dialogue and interfaith relations.
Sinaga and his wife Noverita Pakpak have two teenage children. (285 words)
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