Resilience Development Initiative Urban Refugees Research Group is honored to be granted a research grant by Sasakawa Peace Foundation. Sasakawa Peace Foundation was established on September 1, 1986 in Japan. Sasakawa Peace Foundation is committed to responding to the changes in the environment, contributing to the sound and sustainable development of human society, and building a new governance system for human society by promoting research activities, making policy recommendations, and supporting international cooperation and exchange projects.
This study explores the social integration, which includes interaction, communication, acceptance, acknowledgment, and cooperation issues, between young refugees and young people in the host communities in Indonesia. The research project aims to develop a method for social integration and support the reconstruction of shared identity between youth in refugees and host communities in Indonesia. We view this research as an opportunity to develop a new shared identity between the youth in refugees and host communities. Both communities are currently exposed to foreign cultures that cause minimum interaction and may lead to mutual incomprehension to each community’s social condition.
