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Lafran Pane, founder   activism of KAMMI also deserve to be   Indonesian “origin” and the trans-national   leadership of M. Natsir had brought   significant effect on the regeneration
 of the Islamic Students   discussed here. Although it has never   Islamic influence. The student movements   the ideology of Wahhabi Salafism into   system of campus propagation agencies
 Association (HMI)  been confronted with events testing   such as HMI, PMII, and IMM are Islamic   Indonesia since 1967.  Many Indonesian   from the 1980s to early 1990s.
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 Source: Directorate of   their nationalism as was the case   movements strongly rooted within the   students were sent by DDII to study in   In connection with the development
 History and Cultural   of HMI, PMII, and IMM, concerning   Indonesian history. While the campus   the Middle East as well as Indonesian   of Salafism in Indonesia, it should be
 Values, Ministry of   their acceptance of the sole principle   Islamic movements like LDK and KAMMI   students studying at the representative   emphasized that there are several
 Education and Culture   of Pancasila, it does not mean that   in many ways are founded as an influence   of the University of Imam Ibn Sa’ud   patterns of the thought of Salafism
 of the Republic of   KAMMI does not coattach it self to   of Islamic movements in the Middle East,   in Indonesia, namely Lembaga Ilmu   in Indonesia, such as the Wahhabi
 Indonesia  idea of nationalism. As an organization   especially the Muslims’ brotherhood   Pengetahuan Islam dan Arab (the   Salafi, the IkhwaniSalafi, and the
 founded at the end of the New Order   (al-ikhwan al-muslimin) in Egypt. Such a   Institute of Islamic and Arabic Sciences,   Purist Salafi. The Wahhabi Salafi has
 era, the emergence of KAMMI implies   difference significantly formulates their   LIPIA). The influence of Wahhabism is   the understanding that is based on
 the commitment of the founders interest   religious thoughts and ideologies.   not only for the general public but also   the thought of Muhammad ibn Abd
 of to the state. In addition, KAMMI also   The first two Islamic movements, HMI   at the university, which takes form of the   al-Wahhab of Saudi Arabia, while
 comprehends democracy as the proper   and IMM, inherited the modernist   campus Islamic movements. Alumni of   the Ikhwani Salafi is a movement
 political mechanism. Such implies their   Islam movement, while PMII is clearly   Middle East universities as well as LIPIA   rooted in the Muslim Brotherhood of
 strong commitment of this organization    affiliated with the traditionalist group of   began to emerge and give influences   Egypt. The Purist Salafi category is an
 to the Indonesian nation.  NU. However, the campus atmosphere   on campuses since the 1980s. Some   understanding originates from Yemen’s
 in urban areas has often made the   of them also carry the influence of the   Salafist, which is less political in their
 Campus Islamic Movements in   relationship of the three student   Islamic movement in Egypt, the Muslim   aspects of attention.
 Comparative Perspectives   movements to be relatively fluid, and   Brotherhood. Therefore, the books of
 The following chart discusses both   therefore the author suggests that the   the Muslim Brotherhood figures such   In general, Islamic religious
                                                 understanding of the LDK and KAMMI is
 groups of the Islamic student movement   Indonesian Islamic identity is dominant   as Hasan al-Banna and Sayyid Qutb   almost the same that Islam is a religion
 in a comparative perspective. Therefore,   in the three movements compared to the   had flooded Indonesia during the 1980s   that regulates all aspects of life. Such
 the following issues are taken as bases   campus Islamic movements like LDK   and eventually influenced the campus   an ideology brings the understanding of
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 of comparison, ranging from religious   and KAMMI, that are greatly influenced   Islamic movements.  The education   the first two movements on the political
 thought to the movement strategies and   by Islamic trans-national movements   (tarbiyah) regeneration methods like that   aspect, by which they are also often
 the member recruitment.  and ideologies.  of the Muslim Brotherhood has the most   referred to as Islamist movements. In
 Since the beginning of the New Order,   52. Muhammad Wildan,. Radical Islamism in Solo:   contrast to the Purist Salafi movement
          a quest of Muslims’ identity in a town of Central
 1) Religious Thought and   the Middle East style of Islam called   Java.Ph.D. Thesis di UniversitasKebangsaan   that does not want to get involved
 Movement  Malaysia (UKM), 2009, p.16.
 Salafism had a powerful influence in            in the political sphere, the other two
 In general, campus Islamic movements   Indonesia. The Indonesian Islamic   53. Yon Machmudi, Islamising Indonesia; the rise   contemporary Islamic movements
          of Jemaah Tarbiyah and the Prosperous Justice
 can be categorized into two, namely the   Propagation Council (DDII) under the   Party, Ph.D. Thesis, ANU E-Press, 2006, p.30.  considers politics as part of the struggle



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