Islamic Militias and Capitalist Development in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

Mudhoffir, Abdil Mughis

doi:10.1080/00472336.2017.1336564

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Section: Results and Discussion Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is interesting to examine an article by Mudhoffir (2017) that analyzes militias' formation in Indonesia, Southern Thailand, and the Philippines. Mudhoffir (2017) analyzes the formation of militias in Indonesia from Japanese to modern times. In addition, the study is not only about Islam-based militias, such as FPI, but also about secular militias, such as the youth of Pancasila.…”

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Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education

Ridhoi¹,

Subekti²,

Navarro³

et al. 2022

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This book provides a collection of articles resulting from the International Conference on History, Social Sciences, and Education (ICHSE), which was held on 11 September 2021. The Department of History of Malang State University choose "Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education" as the main topic, and elaborates on five subthemes: 1) new trends in historical research; 2) formulation of new perspectives in history, social sciences, and education; 3) transdisciplinary research in history, social sciences, and education; 4) innovations in historical and social science learning during pandemics; 5) New ideas in the research and practice of social sciences and education. This seminar was open to international academics.This book presents new perspectives on methodology, methods, theory, and themes on history, social sciences, and education research from various perspectives on methodology and historiography. Now, history is not only about politics, economy and military, but also about environment, social, education, culinary, and so on. This book will be useful for students, historians, and the general public, in recording the development of Indonesian historical writing perspectives.

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Section: Results and Discussion Datamentioning

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Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education

Ridhoi¹,

Subekti²,

Navarro³

et al. 2022

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“…This is a megacity where the markers of extreme wealth and poverty exist side by side – as shopping malls and exclusive hotels regularly give way to side roads leading to labyrinthine urban slums and neighbourhoods populated by the poor. It is also significant that studies have shown consistently that organisations like FPI and FBR (Betawi Solidarity Forum) recruit members from among the urban poor (Mudhoffir 2017; Wilson 2015; Yasih 2017), many of whom join them as part of a strategy of economic survival. It is for such reasons that Wilson (2017) could point to the urban poor's strong economic antagonism towards Ahok that accounted for the success of the mass rallies against him.…”

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“…Now defunct, its networks are believed to have spawned other violent groupings whose actions are inimical to democratic life. Furthermore, vigilante organisations like the FPI (Islamic Defenders Front) have been able to defy the country's own laws through acts that have included raids on entertainment venues deemed 'dens of vice', as well as acts of violence and intimidation against members of sexual and religious minorities (Mudhoffir 2017;Wilson 2015). In recent years, moreover, laws against 'pornography' and 'blasphemy', as well as religiously inspired local edicts colloquially known as perda shariah, have been utilised in ways that infringe on rights and norms usually associated with functioning democracies.…”

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The ‘Floating’Ummahin the Fall of ‘Ahok’ in Indonesia

Hadiz

2018

TRaNS

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The article examines the idea of a ‘floating’ ummah in Indonesia today that affects the workings of Indonesian Islamic politics and democracy itself. It is asserted that the ummah, or community of believers, are more disconnected from the large mainstream Islamic organisational vehicles in Indonesia than is often claimed. A considerable cross-section of this community has become increasingly disaffected with the status quo, as social inequalities sharpen and educated youths who face uncertain futures find appeal in the tough rhetoric of fringe Islamic organisations. This rhetoric emphasises absolute standards of morality as a solution to social and economic predicaments, thereby resulting in the mainstreaming of rigid religious attitudes. Consequently, organisations seen as guardians of ‘religious moderation’ have also picked up on them in an attempt to remain relevant to their increasingly socially heterogeneous constituencies. The overall result is an Islamic politics that has become more intolerant, especially when identity politics gets absorbed into conflicts between different oligarchic factions. This was seen in the dramatic fall of the ethnic-Chinese and Christian former governor of Jakarta known as ‘Ahok’ in 2017.

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“…The theoretical insights of the oligarchy school has recently been extended in the analysis of hardline Islamic groups in Indonesia. For these, see Hadiz 2016 andMudhofir 2017. While political oligarchy scholarship has given meaningful insights on the political economy, material, and power-seeking motivations of hardline Islamic movements, it underplays the role of ideology as a key determinant to the political motivation of these groups, thereby it has troubles explaining why these misbehaviors and abuses of power of the oligarchs sometimes were reported by the media and different civil society organizations have come out to criticize their abuses, these did little to keep their powers in check, as there are few state institutions that could effectively check their powers and effectively prevent them from committing corruption or other forms of misdeeds while they are holding a public office.…”

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From Civil Islam towards NKRI Bersyariah? Understanding Rising Islamism in Post-Reformasi Indonesia

Sebastian¹,

Arifianto²

2018

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Social and Political Sciences (ICSPS 2017)

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Abstract-The successful Defending Islam campaign against former Jakarta governor Basuki TjahajaPurnama is clear evidence that Islamism is rising in post-Reformasi Indonesia, something that is not wellanalyzed in recent scholarships on Indonesian Islam. Influenced strongly by Civil Islam thesis, they have failed to study hardline Islamic movements due to its premises that: 1) the dominant mode of Islamic discourse in Indonesia is the moderate Islam represented by organizations such as Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah, and 2) hardline Islamism represents a fringe element to the moderate theological discourses embedded in Indonesian Islam.I argue that rising Islamism in Indonesia is attributed to the following factors: Hardline Islamist groups are able to promote their exclusivist public theologies using the following mechanisms: 1) Appealing for solidarity and common experiences as Indonesian Muslims to persuade more moderate Muslims to join their activities, 2) Using religious propagation (da'wa) institutions such as campus da'wa groups, state companies and bureaucratic institutions, and social media outlets to promote their theological viewpoints to Indonesian Muslims, and 3) Seeking out allies in national and local government in order to have their policy agenda (e.g., restrictions against religious minorities) implemented at both national and local levels. Meanwhile, moderate civil Islamic groups are losing their appeal because these groups (particularly NU and Muhammadiyah) have moved their central focus from religious propagation to social activism and politics.

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Islamic Militias and Capitalist Development in Post-Authoritarian Indonesia

Cited by 19 publications

References 54 publications

Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education

Embracing New Perspectives in History, Social Sciences, and Education

The ‘Floating’Ummahin the Fall of ‘Ahok’ in Indonesia

From Civil Islam towards NKRI Bersyariah? Understanding Rising Islamism in Post-Reformasi Indonesia

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