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Campus dakwah In the course of time, HMI had become supervision of Masjumi. It had also been critical and progressive thinking. Since became the survival of the organization
activities in Salman a more mature organization and proved that HMI activists were not forced the 1967’s they did not feel “at home” in it self was at stake. In 1986 the HMI
Mosque at the Bandung increasingly influential among the by to choose Masjumi in the 1955 elections, HMI as a student organization, because congress in Padang was an effort to save
Institute of Technology students at either religious or secular but it was up to their conscience. 29 it could accommodate their progressive HMI from the danger of disbandment.
Source: Documentation universities. Dachlan asserted that HMI As the oldest and the biggest student thinking. Some activists even call HMI However, there were a bunch of HMI
Salman Mosque ITB has three personal characteristics: 1) organizations HMI experienced a heyday for being not the right habitus for Wahib members that retained the principle
integrate with and within the national life in the 1970s. Intellectual dynamics and Effendi. Internal dynamics (not to of Islam. They then set up Majelis
of the nation, 2) to think, to act, and to among HMI activists developed, such mention the internal conflict) led to the Penyelamat Organisasi (the Organization
move independently, and 3) to maintain as the presence of Limited Group by witdrawal of Wahib and Effendi from HMI Rescue Council, HMI-MPO). The HMI-
Islamic brotherhood. 27 in September 1969. 32 MPO saw that adopting the single
Djohan Effendi, M. Dawam Rahardjo and principle of Pancasila was a diversion
Ideologically, HMI is often regarded Ahmad Wahib in Yogyakarta. In addition As student organization HMI had of the HMI primary mission. Since it
as an onderbouw (substructure) of the to the figures above, some national begun to decline in the 1980s. These was known there were 2 kinds of HMI,
Masjumi, as Victor Tanja said basing his figures were also born from the womb years were in fact the culmination of the HMI Dipo that headquartered in Jl.
assumption on the decision of the 1949 of HMI such as Nurcholish Madjid, M. the de-politicization policy of the New Diponegoro and the HMI-MPO. HMI Dipo
Congress that HMI and PII were only Amien Rais, FahmiIdris, Deliar Noer, Adi Order government. Various vertical runs as a formal-legal organization, while
student organizations. Another thing that Sasono, and many others. Rahardjo conflicts occurred in there years such the HMI MPO lived as an underground
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encouraged many people’s assumption underlined that HMI has an important as the Jihad Command case (1980), the movement until 1998 reform, when the so
was the ideological proximity of HMI with role in shaping Nurcholish Madjid’s Usroh(1985-1986), and Tanjung Priok called era of Reformasi began.
that of Masjumi. At the 5 congress in intellectuality. The politicization policy of Incident (1984). At the session of the
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Medan (1957), HMI demanded Islamic the Muslims that was carried out by the House of Representatives in August As a campus Islamic organization, HMI
parties like Masjumi, NU, PSII, and New Order government forced the HMI 1982, President Soeharto suggested had contributed a lot. In accordance
the like to be able to fight for Islam as to take a cooperative political stance. the idea to reduce class and ideological with its main purpose of establishment
the state foundation of the Republic of In such political condition, Nurcholish fanaticism along with the regulation of HMI provided the proper understanding
Indonesia in the Constituent Assembly. Madjid issued a very famous slogan the Single Principle, which finally set in of Islam to the students. The HMI it
Sitompul asserts that such claim was “Islam Yes, Politics No”. This was an terms of the Act No. 8 1985 on a Single periodically conducted training for the
legal because the Constituent Assembly attempt to alter the pattern of Islamic Principle Pancasila. This law requires cadres and students such as the Basic
had the duty write a new constitution of struggle that had been more in politics to all social and political organizations to Training (Batra), Intermediate Training
the state. 28 the cultural pattern of struggle. make Pancasila as the basic principle of (Intra), and the Senior Course. In
their statutes. At the 15 HMI Congress addition to provide the understanding
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Sitompul also confirms that HMI and Internal dynamics within HMI in the late in Medan 1983, it was not unanimously of normative Islam, such trainings also
Masjumi shared similiar ideology basic 1960s shook HMI. Ahmad Wahib and agreed that HMI should accept gave insights for new students about
but HMI remained an independent Djohan Effendi were two HMI activists government’s single principle policy. This organizational skills and communication,
organization and it was not under the from Central Java, known for their undecisives situation had to be solved especially for campus life. Rusli Karim

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