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Muhammadiyyah Student opportunity was opened, IMM along world of openness of the reform period, in Islamic propagation by making students due to the heavy handed
Association (IMM) with other student associations as the movement had been transformed the campus as its core strength. All policy of the New Order government.
well as intellectual groups demanded into two organizations that would be members of the academic community The students’ attitude of establishing
Source: Directorate of
History and Cultural for the resignation of Suharto in 1997. explained below: Lembaga Dakwah are the subject as well as the object of an Islamic propagation agency on
Values, Ministry of Being an autonomous organization Kampus (the Campus Propagation their messages. The differing objective campuses was a good decision and
Education and Culture under Muhammadiyah, IMM supported Institute, LDK) and Kesatuan Aksi circumstance of each campus leads LDK strategy in order to keep preaching, while
of the Republic of political movements of Muhammadiyah, Mahasiswa Muslim Indonesia (the in each campus to develop their own they do not have to interact with the
Indonesia especially in the realm of practical Indonesian Muslims’ Student Action names and patterns of propagation in government. Other LDKs were founded
politics as well other social aspects. Union, KAMMI). accordance to circumstances they have at the end of the New Order period, when
However, not many alumni of IMM who to face. LDK on the UGM campus, for the political situation was also improving,
were involved in the national level so far 1) Campus Propagation Agency instance, is named Jamaah Shalahuddin were even founded after the refer a of
except some figures like M. Amien Rais, (LDK) (JS) in ITB, its called, Jama’ah Salman in reformation.
M. Din Syamsuddin, and M. Djazman ITB, Forum Remaja Masjid (the Mosque Normatively, speaking the main purposes
Al-Kindi. Campus Propagation Agency (LDK) is Youths Forum) in UI Jakarta, Unit
an intra-campus student organization Kegiatan Mahasiswa Kerohanian Islam of Islamic propagation on campuses
LDK and KAMMI: A Portrait founded in every university in Indonesia. (the Islamic Spiritual Student Activity were state wellprepared young Islamic
cadres to optimize the role of campuses
of Islam in Muslim Student At each campus, names of the LDK Unit, UKMKI) in Airlangga University in an effort to transform the society into
Movements may vary, such as the Islamic Spiritual Surabaya, and Mahasiswa Pecinta
Section, the Forum of Islamic Studies, Masjid (Mosque Lover Students, MPM) in an ideal Islamic society. To achieve
Entering the era of Reformation, Campus Propagation Agency, Board their goals, LDK has multiple functions
Indonesia witnessed the emergence of Islamic Spirituality, and so forth. UNHAS Makassar. Moreover, LDK also as explained below. First, LDK is
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of the Islamic student movements, that According to their line of action (khittah), develops recently in faculty levels with so the medium for community building.
were ideologically different from the three LDK is a student organization engaging many different names. This is the primary role of LDK that
student movements described above. in the propagation of Islam on campuses LDK is founded at different periods has been been carried out for the time
Inspired by the Middle East movement, to enforce the word of God by way of along with their different historical being. Considering range in performing
especially the Muslim Brotherhood in “commanding the good and forbidding situations. Among the existing LDK, the activities to the academic community
Egypt, this new movement imitated the the evil” (amar ma’ruf nahi munkar). Such Jamaah Salman at ITB is the earliest widely as well as general populace
Islamist movement, which promoted a a movement focuses their activities in LDK formed. It was established on May around the campuses the LDK has
full implementation of Islamic teachings a small community called the campus 30, 1964. Other LDK, such as Jamaah indeed a strategic position. Second,
in socio-religious life as well as the community, in which students are the Sholahuddin at UGM was founded in LDK as an articulator. It means that LDK
state-politics. Starting from an education 1976, whereas UKMKI Airlangga was serves to contrive people’s aspirations,
(tarbiyah) movement, small study- most important element. established on March 30, 1984. The in calling for goodness and eradicating
groups at public university campuses in As the name implies, Lembaga Dakwah period from 1970 to 1980 was the most evils. In practice, such an articulation of
Indonesia since the 1980s, along with the Kampus is an institution engaging difficult period for the Indonesian Muslim LDK (either oral, writing, or action) for the

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