I strongly disagree with the narrative that religion was the background for the conflict in Poso.” Lian Gogali, founder of the Mosintuwu Institute in Poso, Central Sulawesi, told her belief to Tempo.

When the communal conflicts devastated Poso from 1998 to 2001, Lian Gogali was in Yogyakarta to finish her university study. “We are all related. When you trace down our lineage, we are from the same family tree. Some are Muslims, some