Abstract:
The complex Indonesian society requires the residents to always maintain good
relations to realize a harmonious life with each other. Peaceful and conflict are
the potential two poles presenting in human life. Maintaining stable community
conditions is a shared responsibility, from the government to the small community
level. Besides, the level of the role of academics, especially students, becomes
important as an object of research. Religious moderation is a wise attitude toward
one's self during the conditions of a multicultural and multireligious society.
Researchers focus on how the attitude of religious moderation in the form of
tolerance of students representing generation Z, Universitas Lambung Mangkurat
Banjarmasin, can be questioned. The students who are the object of their research
are studying at FKIP, FK, and FEB. The results of research findings based on a
standard of tolerance indicators that correspond to students’ response are more
likely to be in an attitude of mutual respect, mutual help among each other, focus
on equality, and always tolerance for all communities. In addition, the researchers
classified the research findings based on the response of the answers on three
categories of students: pluralist, inclusive, and exclusive. Potential attitudes tend
to make students enter the pluralist category up to 53%. The type thus shows that
students are more receptive to differences by supporting each other's good in the
teachings of religions. Next, there are 41% enter the inclusive category. This
category tends students to welcome differences in beliefs, but they still hold more
of what is within the religions. The last category is exclusive, with 6% of the
student classification results. This third catalog fully believes that goodness and
truth are only in the person of his religion. Therefore, the three classifications'
results show that Lambung Mangkurat University students tend to be more open
to each other in the difference of beliefs. It will give positively impact on
collaborative affairs in solving specific problems that need to be solved together,
especially regarding the issues of this nation.
Keywords: Religious moderation, Tolerance, Students, Z Generation
