Proceeding International Seminar On Islam Culture and Heritage Asian Religion Culture and Heritage Bridge the Gap for Future Prosperity

Academic community UIN Alauddin Makassar and the crew of Journal of Islamic Civilization inSoutheast Asia (JICS) welcomes and appreciates the activities of the seminar with the Univer-ll praises to Allah may all of us obtain blessing from Him, Amien. On behalf of the entire sity Utara Malaysia (UUM). The seminar is strongly significant to strengthening and expanding academic networking across the two countries. This kind of activities must be owned by the college, including UIN Alauddin Makassar. We need to inform that the UIN Alauddin Makassar where this year entered the golden years (50 years IAIN / UIN). The university has been engaging in collaboration with several universities both domestically and abroad. All this is done in order to strengthen the institution in order to create world-class universities (World Class University). The mission is too high and looks stay in the conceptual, but it does not hurt us dream, as something great usually starts with a dream. A dream not just a dream, but a dream then followed with real work. One of the real work in question is a joint seminar titled Islam, Culture and Heritage abbreviated ISICH. Seminars involving scholars, experts in various fields owned by the university, UIN Alauddin and the University Utara Malaysia (UUM) is a concrete step to develop academic atmosphere of the university as well as the entry point in creating a climate and an increasingly competitive academic atmosphere. Islam, culture and heritage, which is the central theme in this seminar will open up the minds us that there are similarities between the two countries, which is owned by Indonesia and Malaysia, not to exacerbate the differences that have often dwarfed our scientific attitude. Spirit of togetherness and attitude of objectivity was underlies this seminar. To put simply, this seminar will then to strengthen the solidarity between the two countries, that often interrupted with sharp pebbles then often worsen relations between the two countries. Last but not least, the seminar is not ...