The Role of Muhammadiyah Islamic Movement in Hacking a New Map of Local Culture in Indonesia

Abstract

This article aims to examine the movement of Muhammadiyah. Muhammadiyah's commitments since its establishment until now is that Muhammadiyah has positioned itself as a pure creed-based Islamic da'wah movement. Muhammadiyah's role in creating a local culture for modern culture, Muhammadiyah has several programs launched in the field of culture. To examine those backgrounds, this article uses a historical approach to the normative juridical method. This article found that Muhammadiyah's program in the field of culture is an effort intended to develop an appreciation of art that is in line with the views of Muhammadiyah's beliefs. One of the applications of Muhammadiyah's cultural program is the development of culture-based education. Muhammadiyah is expected to be able to carry out its strategic role in terms of culture very optimally. In forming a progressive culture, Muhammadiyah does not only need a commensurate movement strategy but at the same time has a building of thought that goes beyond, so that it appears as a carrier of a progressive alternative Islamic message with a strong and superior character. From the womb of Muhammadiyah was born the transformation of Indonesian culture which is religious and progresses parallel to and even superior to other nations. Here the important role of actualizing the view of progressive Islam as declared in the One Century Congress, which is accompanied by the strategy of the enlightenment movement (a movement that liberates, empowers, and advances) in all its orientations and steps.

Implementation of Tabligh As Prophetic Leadership of Muhammadiyah Through Political Movement

“…The function of this technique of obtaining data in research is to find answers to the formulation of the problem by reviewing legal literature materials that are relevant or related to the problem (Al-Fatih, 2020). This study was conducted by reading, studying, and analyzing from various existing fields in the form of textbooks, documents, journals, magazines and other sources related to the problems in this article (Aprilianti et al, 2022).…”

Tracing the roots of Muhammadiyah thought on the concepts of Dār Al-‘Ahdi Wa Al-Syahādah

“…His interest in education has been apparent since he was young, where Ahmad Dahlan founded Madrasah Ibtidaiyah, managed in a modern way following the Dutch Colonial pattern (S. Setiawan & Sujati, 2019).It was from here that Ahmad Dahlan founded an Islamic organization focused on education called Muhammadiyah in 1912. Muhammadiyah emerged as an answer to the pattern of acculturation of the Dutch Colonial (Western) educational style with Islam (Aprilianti, Avilia, & Romelah, 2022), so that the weaknesses of the Dutch Colonial educational style which were ignorant of religion, orientation to individualism, and a focus only on intellectuality would be overcome with the presence of Islam which provided the value of religiosity, social orientation, and the balance between intellect and morality (Idris, 1975: 166-169). This is where the goal of Muhammadiyah through education is to form Moslem to have a strong character, have skills, independence, and be able to contribute to society (Idris, 1975:171).…”