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Islam, Democracy and Human Rights in Contemporary Indonesia109future of our children and the future of our common humanity.This competition reminds us of the first law of thermodynamics in physics, which observes the principle of conservationof energy. Energy can be transformed, i.e., changed from one form toanother, but can neither be created nor destroyed. In today%u2019snew world, there is a greater interdependency than previously.The security of every one of us depends on the security ofeveryone else. The security of every nation is related to thesecurity of every other nation. No nation can create its ownsecurity in isolation. The latest multidimensional crises in some Middle-Easternand North African countries will sooner or later contaminateother countries in their new forms. The laws of nature will correct all injustices in terms of thepowerful and the powerless, free and fettered, privileged andhumiliated. Natural revenge has proved in human history that itsdevastating impact is incomparable.Maybe it is not yet too late to reshape this order byaddressing the future of our children. Gabriela Mistral, a NobelPrize winner in Literature 66 years ago, voiced this concern bysaying, %u201cWe are guilty of many errors and many faults, butour worst crime is abandoning the children, neglecting thefountain of life. Many of the things we need can wait. The childcannot. Right now is the time his bones are being formed, hisblood is being made, and his senses are being developed. Tohim, we cannot answer %u2018Tomorrow%u2019. His name is %u2018Today%u2019.%u201dIndonesia is probably one of the very few countries in theworld that chose a different path from the majority. Indonesia