India, Indonesia share motto of ‘unity in diversity’: PM Modi inaugurates Murugan temple

The premier minister, successful his address, emphasised that the enslaved betwixt the 2 nations is based connected heritage, science, faith, shared beliefs, and spirituality, and added that this transportation includes Lord Murugan, Lord Ram, and Lord Buddha.

“The narration betwixt India and Indonesia is not conscionable geo-political but is rooted successful thousands of years of shared civilization and history,” the PM said. “When idiosyncratic from India visits the Prambanan Temple successful Indonesia, they acquisition the aforesaid spiritual feeling arsenic successful Kashi and Kedarnath.”

Highlighting that the caller expansive Murugan Temple successful Jakarta has added a caller aureate section to the centuries-old heritage, Modi expressed assurance that this temple volition go a caller halfway for some religion and taste values.

Modi said that the narration betwixt India and Indonesia is woven with galore beardown threads. Recalling Prabowo’s caller sojourn to India, helium said they cherished galore aspects of this shared heritage.

Noting that the Murugan Temple successful Jakarta houses not lone Lord Murugan but besides assorted different deities, Modi said that diverseness and plurality signifier the instauration of our culture. In Indonesia, this contented of diverseness is called “Bhinneka Tunggal Ika”, portion successful India, it is known arsenic “Unity successful Diversity”, helium said. “Acceptance of diverseness is the crushed wherefore radical of antithetic faiths unrecorded with specified harmony successful some Indonesia and India,” helium said.

Built connected a 4,000 sq m crippled donated by the government, the temple is located successful the city’s occidental part. Besides lodging shrines dedicated to Lord Murugan and different deities, it besides houses a depository showcasing the humanities transportation betwixt the 2 cultures.

My remarks during Maha Kumbabhishegam of Shri Sanathana Dharma Aalayam successful Jakarta, Indonesia. https://t.co/7LduaO6yaD

— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) February 2, 2025

“The taste values, heritage, and bequest are enhancing people-to-people connections betwixt India and Indonesia,” said Modi. He besides highlighted the associated determination to sphere the Prambanan Temple and the shared committedness to the Borobudur Buddhist Temple.