This study aims to explain that the process of building and maintaining peace in the context of a plural society can be carried out by reactivating the collective memory and cultural identity of the community. Cultural memory and cultural identity that are based on historical-cultural experience are a social capital that nurtures harmony between communities. Qualitatively this study uses a literature study and field research approach. To explore the concepts of collective memory and cultural identity, author uses the concept from Edwards Shils, Maurice Halbwachs, and Paul Gilbert. The field study was obtained through a process of in-depth interviews with key informants, including religious leaders such as the Pastor and Imam of the Mosque, facilitators and community leaders in Batumerah from two communities, Islam and Christianity. Finally, the authors found that the collective memory of the cultural identity of Maluku people as brother people (orang basudara) is a strong social capital to transform conflict, and maintain peace among post-conflict communities. This can be a theoretical foothold in managing the diversity of peaceful lives as fellow brothers in Indonesia.

The education of orang basudara (literally translated as brothers and sisters) is a process of developing higher education that is rooted in the local wisdom of the people in Moluccas, it is the culture of living as brothers and sisters. The education of orang basudara on one side is aimed to shape the capacity of human's intellectual, and on other side, to shape the human's characters which receive and respect the reality of pluralism, and it will contribute to develop and maintain peace among the people of Moluccas that just moved out from the social conflict. This research uses the qualitative method. The locus is in the Indonesia Maluku Christian University. This university was a victim of conflict but had the strong commitment to keep the Education of orang basudara in order to develop and maintain peace in the Moluccas. The result of this research can be an example of reconstructing the role of the higher education in developing and maintaining peace in the middle of plural society.

This article aims to describe the role of music for preserving religious harmony after the social-religious conflict that occurred in 1999-2004 in Maluku. The study is conducted toward the collaboration of musicians of the music of hadroh which come from the Muslim community and the music of trumpet which come from the Christian community in Ambon City. This study uses a qualitative research approach with a discourse analysis approach. The study shows that both of the musical instruments, hadroh and trumpet, are always used in religious rituals, both in Islam and Christian. The musicians are also fromthese two religions. This study also found that Muslim and Christian can collaborate to provide a new style and introduce a new approach for maintaining peace in Maluku. As a result, this study shows that music has the power to preserve peace in a pluralistic society.

This study aims to explain the importance of exploring and communicating the cultural values in the community that can contribute to build social harmony between communities through local music. The study will be conducted by using a qualitative approach that explores and analyzes data both ethic and emic approach to find a description of the culture hidop orang basudara as well as the knowledge, and experience of musicians to build social harmony. The main theory is ethnomusicologist which study relation between music and local culture. Local music of Maluku (such as song Jang Pisah Katong - do not separated us) that created in the cultural context and values hidop orang basudara (living as brotherhood) is an example of the role of music for building peace in the midst of the social conflicts in Maluku in 1999. The results of this study confirm that efforts to build social harmony and strive for peace in the community can be done with a creative diplomacy approach, through local music.Keywords: Harmony, Music, Local, Culture.ABSTRAKKajian ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan pentingnya menggali dan mengomunikasikan nilai-nilai budaya masyarakat yang dapat berkontribusi membangun harmoni sosial dan perdamaian antar masyarakat melalui karya musik lokal. Kajian ini menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif yang menganalisis data secara etik dan emik untuk menemukan deskripsi budaya hidup orang basudara, pengetahuan, dan pengalaman para musisi yang menggunakan musik sebagai media membangun perdamaian. Teori utamanya adalah etnomusikologis, yang menganalisis korelasi unsur budaya dengan musik dalam masyarakat. Musik lokal Maluku yang diciptakan di dalam konteks budaya hidop orang basudara, seperti musik jang pisah katong (jangan memisahkan kita) adalah contoh peran musik sebagai media perdamaian di tengah kenyataan konflik sosial di Maluku tahun 1999. Hasil kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa musik dapat menjadi kekuatan mengintegrasikan kembali masyarakat Maluku yang terpisah oleh karena konflik. Oleh karena itu, upaya mewujudkan harmoni sosial dan perdamaian di tengah masyarakat dapat dilakukan dengan pendekatan diplomasi kreatif, yaitu melalui karya musik.Kata Kunci: Harmoni, Musik, Lokal, Budaya

This study departs from the writer's interest in efforts for conflict transformation in Maluku where religious diversity has been used as an instrument to escalate the conflict between people in Maluku. In efforts for conflict transformation in Maluku, the local music functions as a way of reviving the collective memory of the Maluku people about their cultural identity as orang basudara, an identity that was formed within the cultural institution of the community, such as in the cultural ritual pela-gandong that has been practised since ancient times, as well as in the life practices of orang basudara in their daily social encounters. The collective memory of the cultural identity of the Maluku community as orang basudara encourages the transformation of situations and relationships of conflict into situations and relationships in their life as orang basudara, which means they should always protect one another, help one another, and make peace with one another to end any conflict. Therefore, the goal of this research is to present an academic explanation which shows that music has the potential to communicate the collective memory of the Maluku people in connection with their cultural identity so that it can contribute to the scenario of conflict transformation in the community.