R20 is part of a series of G20 events initiated under Indonesia's G20 Presidency. It is being held from November 2-3 this year for the 'first time ever' in Bali, Indonesia to mobilize global leaders to help ensure that religion functions as a genuine and dynamic source of solutions, rather
In an effort to ensure that religion works together in solving world problems for a peaceful and cooperative world, leaders of all faiths attended the event to join global efforts to solve global humanitarian problems, including poverty, COVID-19 and the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war.
India and Indonesia share two millennia of close cultural and commercial contact. The Hindu, Buddhist and later Muslim faith traveled to Indonesia from the shores of India. The stories from the great epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata form sources of Indonesian folk art and dramas.
Held in the most populous Muslim-majority nation and founded by the world's largest Muslim organisation, R20 will mobilize global leaders to help ensure that religion functions as a genuine and dynamic source of solutions, rather than problems, in the 21st century.