Heresy and Authority: Understanding the Turn against Ahmadiyah in Indonesia

Hicks, Jacqueline

doi:10.5367/sear.2014.0216

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“…This section briefly examines the three examples of Ahmadiyya victimization in contemporary Indonesia. The group's problems arise from its position as a religious minority within the majority groups (Crouch, 2009;Hicks, 2014;Neil Hicks, 2015). The Ahmadiyya group faces different forms of discrimination, attacks, and human rights violations.…”

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The Victimization of the Ahmadiyya Minority Group in Indonesia: Explaining the Justifications and Involved Actors

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2020

Relig. J. Agama dan Lintas Budaya

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This article discusses the victimization of the Ahmadiyya minority community in Indonesia. This article can be considered as one of the crucial studies that analyze the problems faced by the Ahmadiyah minority group in Indonesia due to violence. This study's importance relates to academic efforts in understanding the complexities of the Ahmadiyya community's victimization in Indonesia. This study is also essential in providing input or recommendations for the state, social elements (NGOs), and the Ahmadiyah group. This article proposes the theory of violence as an analytical framework for understanding violence against the Ahmadiyah group. This article provides vital objectives in understanding two aspects of the victimization process of the Ahmadiyya group. First, justifications for the victimization is based on state and religious decrees. Second, the victimization process involves actors and institutions. Besides, this study was conducted using a systematic qualitative review as a method. The data has been collected through extensive reviews on previous studies, ethnographic reports, institutional reports, NGO reports, government, and media.

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The Victimization of the Ahmadiyya Minority Group in Indonesia: Explaining the Justifications and Involved Actors

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2020

Relig. J. Agama dan Lintas Budaya

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“…State officials at local and national levels were complicit in suppressing non-mainstream faiths on the grounds that their teachings were deemed heretical. For these officials, especially those who were remainders from the New Order state, suppressing non-mainstream faiths (for example, the Ahmadiyah community) was also a tactic that they employed “to claw back some of the authority lost after the 1998 political transition” (Hicks, 2014: 321). State officials, as well as conservative religious figures, considered Ahmadis and Shi’as as troublemakers who disrupted public order by proselytizing or otherwise insulting Islam.…”

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Indonesian presidents and communal violence against non-mainstream faiths

Suryana

2018

South East Asia Research

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Indonesia in the post-New Order era saw frequent incidents of religious violence. These began with bloody sectarian conflicts in the cities of Ambon and Poso, which pitted Muslims against Christians. During the era of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2004–2014), heresy campaigns against non-mainstream faiths (Ahmadiyah and Shi’a) increased, followed by attacks mainly levelled at properties belonging to members of these minority communities. Scholars have argued that Yudhoyono and his predecessors, Abdurrahman Wahid and Megawati Soekarnoputri, should be held responsible for this frequent violence. However, while the presidents’ ideological outlooks or personalities may have been contributing factors, this article will focus rather on the institutional factors that hindered their responses to the violence. At times, the presidents encouraged initiatives to promote the rights of minorities. However, these programmes faced constraints from other state institutions due to the bureaucracy and judiciary’s inclination to preserve majoritarian social order and the hegemonic interpretation of the Belief in One God article in the state’s foundational philosophical theory (Pancasila). These challenges were further compounded by a decline in presidential power in the post-New Order era. This article argues that, so long as these constraints exist, any Indonesian president will have difficulties overcoming violence against minority communities.

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“…As one of the most persecuted minorities in Indonesia, the Ahmadiyah has attracted a significant amount of attention (HRW 2013;ICG 2008). The body of literature mentioned above has often focussed on the historical and socio-political causes of the discrimination against the Ahmadiyah, with particular attention having been paid to the role of specific laws, institutions and/or radical Islamists (see for example Crouch 2009a;Crouch 2012;Hicks 2014;ICG 2011;Platzdasch 2011). Another common approach, also adopted by Indonesian mainstream media, focusses on the theological and ideological explanations for Indonesian Muslims' rejection of the Ahmadiyah (see for example Burnhani 2014; Damayanti 2008;Febiana 2007;Nasution 2008).…”

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Understanding the Oppressed: A Study of the Ahmadiyah and Their Strategies for Overcoming Adversity in Contemporary Indonesia

Connley

2016

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs

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The Ahmadiyah is a highly controversial Islamic reformist movement that is persecuted throughout the Muslim world. In Indonesia, the movement's situation has become increasingly precarious with the growth of conservative Islam. This article examines the everyday experiences of oppression suffered by individual Ahmadis at the hands of the state and their Muslim opponents in Indonesia, and looks at their responses to these experiences. I found that Ahmadis employ six diverse strategies to emotionally, socially, and spiritually withstand adversity. These strategies are conceptualised under the following labels: ‘Fortitude through faith and spirituality’, ‘Rationalising oppression’, ‘Ideological manoeuvring’, ‘Acts of resistance’, ‘Harmonising identity’, and ‘Satisfying the need to belong’. I argue that the agency of Indonesian Ahmadis is embedded in these strategies, which mitigate their suffering, and at times seek to change oppressive social environments.

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Heresy and Authority: Understanding the Turn against Ahmadiyah in Indonesia

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Cited by 20 publications

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The Victimization of the Ahmadiyya Minority Group in Indonesia: Explaining the Justifications and Involved Actors

The Victimization of the Ahmadiyya Minority Group in Indonesia: Explaining the Justifications and Involved Actors

Indonesian presidents and communal violence against non-mainstream faiths

Understanding the Oppressed: A Study of the Ahmadiyah and Their Strategies for Overcoming Adversity in Contemporary Indonesia

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