Paramadina and its Approach to Culture and Communication : an Engagement in Civil Society

Bakti, Andi Faisal

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“…Such a position is different from negotiation, where the receiver is assumed to relate information obtained with the information available in their mind, select it, and determine the level of its relevance, whether the message is accepted or rejected. Rejection happens in small elements where, in general, the receiver is still within the agreeing position (Bakti, 2004c). Rejection is a further option for making the decision to reject or oppose the message.…”

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The Middle-Class Muslims’ Responses Toward the Salafi Da’wah: A Study on Hijrah celebrities

Setiana Dewi,

Khoirul Fata,

Fauzi

2024

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This study unravels how Indonesian celebrities who submitted to Salafi Islam (popularly called hijra celebrities) responded to some notable Salafi teachings. Like in many Muslim countries, such as Türkiye, Pakistan, and Egypt, Salafism is increasingly attracting followers from the middle class who then express their Salafism in public visibility, or called “active piety”. The data for this article was collected through in-depth interviews with Salafi preachers (dais) and celebrities who actively participated in the Islamic meetings held or taught by these preachers. This study uses a cultural studies approach, in which Hall's theory of encoding-decoding is used to analyse the active role of hijrah celebrities in receiving messages conveyed by Salafi preachers. This study reveals that the Salafi preachers used the educational approach in their propagation (da’wah) through religious education forums using clear guideline books. Meanwhile, the celebrities’ responses toward this Salafi propagation varied, i.e., dominant hegemony, negotiation, and opposition, with negotiation being the most frequent. In general, the celebrities accepted the Islamic teachings from their Salafi teachers, except for several issues that they considered less relevant to their lives. This study also found the fact that the hijrah celebrities, as recipients of information, did not passively receive information, but they classified, selected, and utilised the information received from the Salafi preachers and adapted it to their needs.

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The Middle-Class Muslims’ Responses Toward the Salafi Da’wah: A Study on Hijrah celebrities

Setiana Dewi,

Khoirul Fata,

Fauzi

2024

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“…In telling this story the paper describes how a small 'renewal of Islamic thought' movement emerged to play a significant role in pushing for political and social reforms. Inspired by the 'neo-Modernist' ideas of reformist scholar Fazlur Rahman and led by the charismatic Nurcholish Madjid, the movement supported the desacralization of politics and the liberalizing of Islam (Rahman 1984(Rahman , 2009Faisal Bakti 2004). Similar ideas were articulated by Abdurrahman Wahid.…”

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Authoritarianism, Democracy, Islamic Movements and Contestations of Islamic Religious Ideas in Indonesia

2021

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Since independence, Islamic civil society groups and intellectuals have played a vital role in Indonesian politics. This paper seeks to chart the contestation of Islamic religious ideas in Indonesian politics and society throughout the 20th Century, from the declaration of independence in 1945 up until 2001. This paper discusses the social and political influence of, and relationships between, three major Indonesian Islamic intellectual streams: Modernists, Traditionalists, and neo-Modernists. It describes the intellectual roots of each of these Islamic movements, their relationships with the civil Islamic groups Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), their influence upon Indonesian politics, and their interactions with the state. The paper examines the ways in which mainstream Islamic politics in Indonesia, the world’s largest majority Muslim nation, has been shaped by disagreements between modernists and traditionalists, beginning in the early 1950s. Disagreements resulted in a schism within Masyumi, the dominant Islamic party, that saw the traditionalists affiliated with NU leave to establish a separate NU party. Not only did this prevent Masyumi from coming close to garnering a majority of the votes in the 1955 election, but it also contributed to Masyumi veering into Islamism. This conservative turn coincided with elite contestation to define Indonesia as an Islamic state and was a factor in the party antagonizing President Sukarno to the point that he moved to ban it. The banning of Masyumi came as Sukarno imposed ‘guided democracy’ as a soft-authoritarian alternative to democracy and set in train dynamics that facilitated the emergence of military-backed authoritarianism under Suharto. During the four decades in which democracy was suppressed in Indonesia, Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama, and associated NGOs, activists, and intellectuals were the backbones of civil society. They provided critical support for the non-sectarian principles at the heart of the Indonesian constitution, known as Pancasila. This found the strongest and clearest articulation in the neo-Modernist movement that emerged in the 1980s and synthesized key elements of traditionalist Islamic scholarship and Modernist reformism. Neo-Modernism, which was articulated by leading Islamic intellectual Nurcholish Madjid and Nahdlatul Ulama Chairman Abdurrahman Wahid, presents an open, inclusive, progressive understanding of Islam that is affirming of social pluralism, comfortable with modernity, and stresses the need for tolerance and harmony in inter-communal relations. Its articulation by Wahid, who later became president of Indonesia, contributed to Indonesia’s transition from authoritarianism to democracy. The vital contribution of neo-Modernist Islam to democracy and reform in Indonesia serves to refute the notion that Islam is incompatible with democracy and pluralism.

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Indonesia's Journey to Independence and the Evolution of Political Islam: A Historical Perspective

Demir,

Barton

2023

Palgrave Studies in Populisms

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Paramadina and its Approach to Culture and Communication : an Engagement in Civil Society

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The Middle-Class Muslims’ Responses Toward the Salafi Da’wah: A Study on Hijrah celebrities

The Middle-Class Muslims’ Responses Toward the Salafi Da’wah: A Study on Hijrah celebrities

Authoritarianism, Democracy, Islamic Movements and Contestations of Islamic Religious Ideas in Indonesia

Indonesia's Journey to Independence and the Evolution of Political Islam: A Historical Perspective

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