Among the Believers in the Land of the Colonizer: Mohammed Ali van Beetem’s Role Among the Indonesian Community in the Netherlands in the Interwar Period*

Ryad, Umar

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“…Nevertheless, since the early 1990s Indonesian Muslims have become quite marginal among the much larger Muslim groups (Steenbrink, 2010, p. 47). Studies on the Indonesian Muslim community in the Netherlands have been done, among others, by Umar Ryad (2012), on the role of a Dutch convert, Mohammed Ali van Beetem (1879-1938, and Klaas Stutje (2016) on Indonesian Muslim groups in the Netherlands before World War II. In 1996, Muhammad Hisyam published his research on the emergence of Persatuan Pemuda Muslim se-Eropa (PPME, Young Moslem Association in Europe), an organization of Indonesian Muslims living in Europe, founded in 1971.…”

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They have freedom of choice. Indonesian immigrants’ discourse on religion and modernity in the Netherlands

Nabubhoga

2024

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This study examines the discourse of Indonesian immigrants about religion and modernity in the Netherlands. In the Dutch debate on dealing with religion in the public arena, Indonesian immigrants tend to be neglected as the debate usually concentrates on (Muslim) immigrants from Morocco and Turkey. This study focuses on the concept of multiple modernities to explore the Indonesian immigrants’ perception of modern Dutch society. Using Norman Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis to analyse the data, the study finds that the notion of modernity in the context of multiple modernities needs revision because, according to Indonesian immigrants’ perception, European modernity is not as secular as Europeans themselves claimed. It is not secular Europe versus the religious rest of the world. It is the blurry boundaries of religious-secular division in Europe, in this case, the Netherlands.

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They have freedom of choice. Indonesian immigrants’ discourse on religion and modernity in the Netherlands

Nabubhoga

2024

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“…In 1932, there are some Indonesian Muslims in the Netherlands from various backgrounds such as students, houseboys, seamen and others, founded an PUI organization, Perkumpulan Islam, or Indonesian Islamic Association (in Dutch Indonesische Islamitische Vereniging). The organization was initiated by Ali Van Beetem, A Dutchman Ex-the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) who had converted to Islam, wanted to provide numerous Islamic activities for Indonesian Muslims in his home (Ryad, 2012;278;Poeze, 2014). Moreover, the PUI was mainly active in the Hague; it began in 1932 with sixty members but gradually grew to roughly 300 members around 1940 (Bommel, 1992: 26;Poeze, 2014: 296;Stutje, 2016: 130;Steenbrink, n.d.).…”

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“…There are two reasons on how the Netherlands should be the main locus in this research, i.e. a) Diaspora Muslim Indonesia is the first actor that promoted Islam faces in the Netherlands since 1920s (Rath, Meyer, and Sunier, 1997;Ryad, 2012;Poeze, 2014Stutje, 2016;b) the Netherlands also was acknowledged as one of the highest Muslim populations in Europe. The data from Europe's Growing Muslim Population stated that in 2010 the number of Muslim population in the Netherland just reached 990,000 people.…”

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Mapping Indonesian Muslim Diaspora in the Netherlands

Aidulsyah

Gusnelly

2019

J. Indones. Soc. Sci. and Humanit.

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Since few years ago, Indonesian government has been concerning to gain many benefits from Indonesian diaspora in various regions in the world. There are many events and agendas provided by the government which are aimed to embrace many Indonesian diaspora for giving a great contribution towards their homelands. However, its vision for gaining attention from Indonesian diaspora tends to low because the government do not have Indonesian diaspora maps in details, comprehensive, as well as described by historical trajectory. This paper aims to understand the contribution of Indonesian Muslim diaspora by mapping the role of Indonesian Muslim Organizations in the Netherlands by socio-historical perspectives. The main reasons of the Netherlands as locus of this research are; Indonesian Muslim diaspora are the first actors who promoted Islam faces in this country since 1920s and it also was acknowledged as one of the highest Muslim populated countries in Europe. Afterwards, this paper shows that there are numerous Indonesian Muslim organizations in the Netherlands from different perspectives, mazhabs, and backgrounds. Even though the government did not pillarize Indonesian Muslim organizations, albeit most of them have strong connections with some Muslim organizations in Indonesia, starting from Nahdhatul Ulama (NU) until Salafist Movement.

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Religion at the cemetery Islamic Burials in the Netherlands and Belgium

Outmany

2015

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Death, dying, and burial are not only matters restricted to the experiences and emotions of an individual, but also social events. The rituals that accompany these events are central to the identities and meanings that groups construct for themselves. They can be viewed as windows that open out onto the ways societies view themselves and the world around them (Gardner, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 24: 507-521, 1998). One of the themes this article takes up is that of the enforcement of legal and religious regulations with regard to death and burial among Muslims in the Netherlands and Belgium. If the practice of burial rituals and regulations is used as a Bwindow,^this opens the way to make an elaboration of the established fact that the choice of where to be buried is not only a matter of being well informed about all the practical, legal, and religious possibilities and impossibilities. It is also (or maybe more so) a matter of how Muslims view themselves and the society of which they are part.

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Among the Believers in the Land of the Colonizer: Mohammed Ali van Beetem’s Role Among the Indonesian Community in the Netherlands in the Interwar Period*

Cited by 5 publications

References 3 publications

They have freedom of choice. Indonesian immigrants’ discourse on religion and modernity in the Netherlands

They have freedom of choice. Indonesian immigrants’ discourse on religion and modernity in the Netherlands

Mapping Indonesian Muslim Diaspora in the Netherlands

Religion at the cemetery Islamic Burials in the Netherlands and Belgium

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