Chinese Indonesians in Post-Suharto Indonesia

Chong, Wu-Ling

doi:10.2307/j.ctv80cbn6

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“…The less-populated eastern islands are predominantly Christian and Catholic (Hariyadi 2019) while Muslims in heavily populated Java and Sumatra are around 90 per cent of the population. As an ethnic minority in the country, Indonesian Chinese frequently follow the Christian faith (Chong 2018). Although comprising less than 10 per cent in total of the Indonesian population, those following Christian/Catholic beliefs are well represented in the ranks of the middle class and the business world, especially in the western islands.…”

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Challenging Islamist Populism in Indonesia through Catholic Youth Activism

Nilan¹,

Wibowanto²

2021

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This paper reports data from a study of young Catholic activists. They were concerned about the expansion of Islamist populism in democratic Muslim-majority Indonesia. They actively built inter-faith coalitions with local liberal Muslim youth groups, and with pan-national Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the largest independent Islamic organization in the world. Islamist populism prioritises religious identity over the national identity of citizenship. In framing their citizenship activism against the current tide of Islamist populism, the informants in our study selectively engaged aspects of Catholic theology. They articulated their religious identity as coterminous with a nationalist identity centred on multi-faith tolerance and harmony. That discourse in itself refutes a key principle of Islamist populism, which argues for primordial entitlement.

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confidence: 99%