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 Campus dakwah   the ideals of “clerical-intellectuals”.    the PKI.  Of the various universities   Ideologically, HMI is often regarded   organizations HMI experienced a heyday
 activities in Salman   At that time HMI appeared as a kind of   Dachlan Ranuwihardjo, M. Imaduddin   as an onderbouw (substructure) of the   in the 1970s. Intellectual dynamics
 Mosque at the Bandung   social revolution of the Muslim students.   Abdurrahim, Ismail Hasan Metareum,   Masjumi, as Victor Tanja said basing his   among HMI activists developed, such
 Institute of Technology  Along with the establishing process of   Sulastomo, Endang Saifuddin Ansari and   assumption on the decision of the 1949   as the presence of Limited Group by
 Source: Documentation   the newly nation-state identity, some   others emerged as the leaders.  Congress that HMI and PII were only   Djohan Effendi, M. Dawam Rahardjo and
 Salman Mosque ITB  Muslims were also preoccupied with   The development of HMI to becoming a   student organizations. Another thing that   Ahmad Wahib in Yogyakarta. In addition
 political parties and ideological issues   major organization cannot be separated   encouraged many people’s assumption   to the figures above, some national
 surrounding the Jakarta Charter as the   from the role of A. Dachlan Ranuwihardjo   was the ideological proximity of HMI with   figures were also born from the womb
 Muslims’ attempt to color the nation’s   (Chairman of HMI 1950-1951), who   that of Masjumi. At the 5  congress in   of HMI such as Nurcholish Madjid, M.
                               th
 political life. HMI was a students  effort   brought HMI to Jakarta in 1950. The   Medan (1957), HMI demanded Islamic   Amien Rais, FahmiIdris, Deliar Noer, Adi
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 to characterize the campus lives. At   growth of HMI was also possible   parties like Masjumi, NU, PSII, and   Sasono, and many others.  Rahardjo
 that time, secular student movements   because Dachlan had also been close   the like to be able to fight for Islam as   underlined that HMI has an important
 practically dominated campuses. Having   to Soekarno, who morally supported for   the state foundation of the Republic of   role in shaping Nurcholish Madjid’s
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 been attached to the Islamic symbols   HMI struggle. Soekarno’s closeness with   Indonesia in the Constituent Assembly.   intellectuality.  The politicization policy of
 HMI was clearly having trouble in   HMI is a factor that HMI had not been   Sitompul asserts that such claim was   the Muslims that was carried out by the
 getting new members. The Indonesian   dissolved by the president despite the   legal because the Constituent Assembly   New Order government forced the HMI
 political situation that was still unstable   request of PKI. 26  had the duty write a new constitution of   to take  a cooperative political stance.
 also forced HMI to be involved in the   the state. 28  In such political condition, Nurcholish
 fight against the retirn of Netherlands   In the course of time, HMI had become   Sitompul also confirms that HMI and   Madjid issued a very famous slogan
 colonialism and also against uprising   a more mature organization and   Masjumi shared similiar ideology basic    “Islam Yes, Politics No”. This was an
 Communist Party of Indonesia (PKI)   increasingly influential among the by   but HMI remained an independent   attempt to alter the pattern of Islamic
 in Madiun. In late 1950s HMI began to   students at either religious or secular   organization and it was not under the   struggle that had been more in politics to
                                                 the cultural pattern of struggle.
 universities. Dachlan asserted that HMI
 spread its wings outside Yogyakarta such   has three personal characteristics: 1)   supervision of Masjumi. It had also been
 as at the University ofIndonesia (UI), the   integrate with and within the national life   proved that HMI activists were not forced   Internal dynamics within HMI in the late
 Institute Technology of Bandung (ITB),   of the nation, 2) to think, to act, and to   to choose Masjumi in the 1955 elections,   1960s shook HMI. Ahmad Wahib and
 and Padjadjaran University and others.   move independently, and 3) to maintain   but it was up to their conscience. 29  Djohan Effendi were two HMI activists
 In the 1960s, HMI had already had   Islamic brotherhood. 27  from Central Java, known for their
 mass basis in various public universities.   As the oldest and the biggest student   critical and progressive thinking. Since
 In 1965-1966 those members would   25. Rahardjo, Intelektual Intelegensia,….. p.329.  28. Agussalim Sitompul, Historiografi Himpunan   the 1967’s they did not feel “at home” in
          Mahasiswa Islam tahun 1947-1993. (Jakarta:
 26. Saidi, Islam dan Nasionalisme Indonesia,…p.
 become the motor of resistance against   85-88.  Intermasa, 1995), p.60.  HMI as a student organization, because
 24. M. Dawan Rahardjo, Intelektual Intelegensia   27. M. Rusli Karim, HMI MPO dalam Kemelut   29. Agussalim Sitompul, HMI dalam Pandangan   30. Latif, Inteligensia Muslim dan Kuasa,… p. 428.
 dan Perilaku Politik Bangsa: Risalah Cendekiawan   Modernisasi Politik di Indonesia. (Bandung: Mizan,   Seorang Pendeta: Antara Impian dan Kenyataan,    31. Rahardjo, Intelektual Intelegensia dan Perilaku
 Muslim, (Bandung: Mizan, 1996), p.55.  1997), p. 102.  (Jakarta: Gunung Agung, 1984), p.62-63.  ,…… p.37.



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