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ideologically moderate Indonesian Islam.   in the middle New Order period. The                the ideology of Salafism-Wahhabism     does not correspond to the progressive     Consecutive chairmen of
                                   The development of Islam in Indonesia   conservative style of Wahhabist Islam                 into Indonesia. To develop the Wahhabi   encouragement of his youthful spirit.    the Indonesian Islamic
                                   escalated since the Wahhabi intensifies   brought by the Middle East alumni                   influence and also to repress the      Various campus Islamic movements           Student Movement (PMII)
                                   their propaganda in Southeast Asia to   sent by DDII began to emerge in the                   influence of Shia in Indonesia, various   that are the object of this study can be   Source: Directorate of
                                   repress Shi’ite influences. The latter   early 1980s, along with the repressive               Islamic organizations in the Middle East   categorized into two movements: the    History and Cultural
                                   Islam has different pattern of Islam that   politics of Soeharto regime against               provide massive funding to develop the   campus Islamic movement and the          Values, Ministry of
                                   can be called the Middle East style of   the growing Muslims campus Islamic                   propagation of Islam. Among the DDII   Campus Islamic propagation Movement.       Education and Culture
                                   Islam, in which the latter is ideologically   movements. This phase is characterized          missionary activity was to establish   First, the campus Islamic movements        of the Republic of
                                   relatively conservative. Various patterns   by the emergence of a new generation              mosques, publishing magazines, and     are any movements founded during the       Indonesia
                                   of diversity also affect campus Islamic   of Muslim students who makes the                    the most significant one was to provide   Old Order era and the early period of
                                   movements. In general campus            campus’ mosque as their base of                       scholarships for Indonesian students   the New Order to include HMI, PMII,
                                   Islamic movement emerged in the two     Islamic propagation. They are known as                studying in the Middle East. A few years   and IMM. In contrast to other campus
                                   periods, i.e. the early period Indonesian   tarbiyah groups taking much inspiration           later, the Middle East alumni had a    movements, student movements were
                                   independence and the middle period of   from the movement of the Muslim                       significant influence on the spread of   founded due to political factors and the
                                   the New Order.                          Brotherhood in Egypt. In this period                  Wahhabism in Indonesia, including on   spirit of nationalism. Similarly, in contrast
                                                                                                                                 campuses. For DDII, the significant lines
                                                                                                                                                                        to other Islamic movements, these
                                   The spirit of nationalism becomes       actually began to appear also a student               of Islamic propagation in Indonesia are   movements have some characteristics
                                   a significant issue that led to the     movement affiliated to the Hizbut Tahrir.             three: boarding schools, campuses, and   such as: politically moderate, more
                                   emergence of campus Islamic             But this latter student movement is less              mosques. This idea is the vision of M.   focused on capacity building activities
                                   movements in the early period of        significantly developed at campuses.                  Natsir, the founder of DDII, as he said “if   for the students, having a fewer
                                   Indonesian independence. Campus         In addition to local factors, the rise of             we used to propagating Islam in politics,   propagation activity, being more internal,
                                   Islamic movements that appeared before   Islamic movements, especially in the                 now we play politics by the path of    and relatively fewer activities within the
                                   and after the independence due to social   last two decades has been influenced               Islamic propagation.” 55               community.
                                   and political situations are JIB, HMI,   by global factors. No denial that the
                                   PMII, and IMM. Although JIB has no      emergence of Islamic movements in the                 Lastly, the development of Islamic     Second, the campus student movements
                                   longer existed, some analysts suggest   reform era is a global phenomenon that                movements in several campuses in       emerging at the middle New Order period
                                   that the Islamic spirit of JIB is inherited   also appears in various countries. The          Indonesia cannot be separated from     and beginning of the era of Reformation
                                   by HMI in both ideology and politics. The   dominant course of globalization has              the students’ psychological condition,   like LDK and KAMMI would rather be
                                   manifold political background then forms   accelerated the spread of the trans-               which is full of idealism or favoring a   called the campus Islamic propagation
                                                                                                                                                                        movement. Although comprising political
                                                                                                                                 belief to be true thing. Students are
                                   the nature of campus Islamic movements   national Islamic ideology.                           often persistent in fighting for his beliefs.   aspects in their process of establishment,
                                   as dense as their political nuances.    Dewan Dakwah Islam Indonesia (the                     In general, students do not like the   these student movements are more
                                   The second period of the rise of campus   Indonesian Islamic Propagation Council,             establishment of status quo, because   influenced by the high spirit of Islam
                                   Islamic propagation movements is        DDII) plays significant role in bringing              it is synonymous with setbacks, which   resulted from the Middle East influences.



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