INTERAKSI SOSIAL ANTARA KELOMPOK MASYARAKAT ISLAM DAN KRISTEN DI KOTA TERNATE

This article is a summary of the research on religious group social distance measurement in Ternate. Data accumulated from questionnaires to 100 respondents and analyzed descriptively. Result shows that, in general, social interaction as friendship, job, social politics, social religious and kinship relation of ethnic and religious groups is significantly close and categorized good. The friendship relation is the item with the highest percentage (67.5%) showing that the respondents did not consider religious identity as the relationship blockage. It is while the kinship relation was at the lowest percentage 40% showing that most of respondents did not want " other people" to be a member of their family