“…However, providing a definitive account of the movement is no easy task; at present, there are at least five different networks in Indonesia, who frequently denounce each other by drawing from the same religious resources. 3 Moreover, despite growing literature pertaining to the Salafi movement both globally (Koning, 2007;Meijer, 2009) and within Indonesia specifically (Hasan, 2006(Hasan, , 2007(Hasan, , 2008(Hasan, , 2010a(Hasan, , 2010bICG, 2004;Nisa, 2012Nisa, , 2013Sunarwoto, 2016;Wahid, 2014), the use of the term remains somewhat obscure. Not only does Salafi denote an important reference to Islamic history, deriving from al-Salaf or 'those 3 A preliminary list of these poles within the movement includes: those who follow scholars such as Abu Nida, Yazid bin Abdul Qadir Jawas, Faiz Asifuddin and Aunur Rafiq Ghufron, who are the main focus of this article; former followers of Jafar Umar Thalib linked to Luqman Ba'abduh, Muhammad as-Sewed and Ayip Syafruddin; former followers of Jafar Umar Thalib linked to Dzulqarmain, who was in charge of fatwa for Laskar Jihad; former followers of Jafar Umar Thalib linked to Abu Thurob al-Jawi; those affiliated with the Makassar based religious organisation Wahdah Islamiyah.…”