The Institute for Islamic and Social Studies (

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: Lembaga Kajian Islam dan Sosial, LKiS), is an Indonesian

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that was founded on September 3, 1993, in

Yogyakarta Yogyakarta (; jv, ꦔꦪꦺꦴꦒꦾꦏꦂꦠ ; pey, Jogjakarta) is the capital city of Special Region of Yogyakarta in Indonesia, in the south-central part of the island of Java. As the only Indonesian royal city still ruled by a monarchy, ...

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The institute stimulates intellectual debate on a

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{Dead link, date=January 2020 , bot=InternetArchiveBot , fix-attempted=yes LKiS is a progressive publisher of

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ic books and also a promoter of several interests within the country, like

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and

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. The foundation publishes the bulletin ''Ikhtilaf'', effectuates reform projects in

Probolinggo Probolinggo ( id, Kota Probolinggo, mad, Prabâlingghâ) is a city on the north coast of East Java province, Indonesia. It covers an area of 56.67 sq. km, and had a population of 217,062 at the 2010 census and 239,649 at the 2020 census ...

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) and produces television and radio programs. Weekly it distributes about 20,000 pamphlets in

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s. It works together with for instance

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and is sponsored by

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, the

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and others. In 2002 the institute was honored with a

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from the

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Scientific organizations based in Indonesia