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THE MUSLIM INTELLECTUAL IN
THE TRANSFORMATION SOCIETY IN

INDONESIA: PAST AND PRESENT 1

1. Introduction
any contemporary studies on the Islamic politics and
2
MIslamic political anthropology, tend to classify the
3
emergence of the Indonesian Muslim intellectual into four
groups. The first is the fundamentalist groups, those who sup-
ported the rigid and pure commentary on Islamic teaching, anti
secular thinking, anti Western and traditional belief syncretism,
and more giving priority on the religious activities than poli-
tics. The second is the reformist groups, those who more giving
priority on the religious activities than politics, but they more
willingly to cooperate with the secular groups on the basis of

1 Paper presented in The 11th International Conference of Korea As-
sociation of the Middle East Studies, “Civilization and Modernization in
the Middle East, organized by Korea Association of the Middle East Stud-
ies, Seoul, South Korea, on October 11-13, 2002.
2 See Bachtiar Effendy, Islam dan Negara, Transformasi Pemikiran dan
Praktik Politik Islam di Indonesia (Jakarta: Penerbit Paramadina, 1998).
3 Roberts W. Hefner, Civil Islam, Muslims and Democratization in Indone-
sia (Princeton, New Jerseay: Princeton University Press, 2000).

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