Forum Lingkar Pena (FLP) Makassar is one of the organizations with Islam as its ideology. Its members come from various organization, and therefore this has influenced their perception on the practice of Islamic values in the context of hablumminannas. This article deals with how Islamic values are applied in the every day life of members of FLP and how members of FLP manage to deal with this. It was found that their understanding in the application of Islamic values regarding human relations vary, particularly in regard to the interaction between men (ikhwan) and women (akhwat). The variety of understanding is debated and influences the relation between members of FLP. Those whose background are from WahdahIslamiyahand Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia tend to be rigidly reacted to these differences, while others are more moderate. Some resists and follow the majority and still try to make a difference; others are disappointed, but keep themselves in FLP to respect others’ perception without being active in FLP activities; the rests are resisted and left FLP as a result. However, such differences are common as long as they have the basis of their responsesince FLP promotes unity and harmony among its members. Despite the fact, they basically have the same understanding on the basic principle on the aspects that related to hablumminannas, they are different in the way to practice them, such as, among others, shaking hand, being alone between ikhwan and akhwat, riding between ikhwanandakhwat, using hijab to separate between ikhwan and akhwat. It was argued in this article that their understanding in the application of Islamic values in the interaction between ikhwan and akhwat is greatly influenced by their background and the circumstances.
This paper is a description of daily activities in private companies related to the social relations in workplace between employee, management, as well as consumer. Dyadic social relationship is built based on the construction of agreement between individuals in that organization. The interaction which happened in the construction of agreement caused social relations that occur in certain period. The quality of social relations depends on how is the content of that agreement, which is certainly guided by values and norms that had been agreed. Therefore, agreement that established sustainably in dyadic social relationships caused a clique. This clique manifested in agreement, a similarity in thought and feeling in the activities either in the workplace or outside. Moreover, there are other parts in organization interactions such as an act of talk about the negative things of others, which make that people feel disturbed. The gossip could be in a negative labeling form which is given to an individual or group that caused a disharmony in social relations. The methods of collecting data are observation, in-depth interview, literature study and documents. The research results show that clique and gossip in a company workplace are closely related to the harmony and disharmony of workplace, also contribute in the performances of employee in particular and company in general.
This is a review of Mernissi’s Beyond the Veil, one of the most influential book discussing Islam and gender.I have to admit that I have not read Mernissi before I take a course called Anthropology and World Religions focusing in Islam in the University of Auckland. Later I know that the reason why her name rarely echoed in anthropological atmosphere in Indonesia (particularly in Sulawesi) is because Mernissi only well-known in gender studies (especially in Islam) and Islamic studies. I know it because the only colleague who knows Mernissi is my professor who studied anthropology and gender (and Islam). Beyond the Veil is an interesting book. It explores the relation and the dynamics within male-female Muslims which even I, as a Muslim, have not realised it before. Excluding the introduction (with three different versions) and the conclusion, Beyond the Veil is divided into two parts. Part one consist of three chapters which are more theoretic (or conceptual) background of the book and I think, it would be easier for the readers to understand the context and to grasp Mernissi’s arguments briefly. Part two consist of six chapters which are more ethnographic oriented (fieldwork-based) since it tells the readers about the dynamics between men and women in modern Morocco (as a case or sample of modern Islamic society).
The book review reveals the issue of modernity from James Ferguson’s Expectation of Modernity: Myths and Meanings of Urban Life on the Zambian Copperbelt which is dismantling and heart-breaking. This well-written and thick seven chapters book is based on Ferguson’s ethnographic fieldwork in Copperbelt, Zambia, between 1970s-1990s. The book introduced what is called the ethnography of decline, a way of understanding people’s point of view about their own experience of social, cultural, and economic ‘advance’ and ‘decline’. A very hard task for ethnographers since they must deal with the situation instead of working with people. Related to that, Ferguson also explores a concept called ‘abjection’, a process of being thrown (down) aside, expelled or discarded. Using this concept, he claims that modernity is quite similar to colonialism which brings the dichotomy of ‘the west’ and ‘the rest’ where the west is ‘modern’ and the rest is ‘savage’. Thus, globalization of economy brought by modernization has been experienced as abjection and disconnection, leading to a conclusion that modernity is no more than a myth that would never exist.
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