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members among the new students   Social problems closely related to students   Although the Sharia has been much   caliphate. Although this concept is a   Consecutive chairmen of
 registered for a university. In additions,   such as social injustice, corruption, law   discussed since the  era of Reformation,   Western product of thought, the students   the Indonesian Islamic
 another momentum attracts to involve   enforcement, and human rights abuse   but the concept was apparently not   are often listened to this concept, the   Student Movement (PMII)
 a lot of new members is the commonly   are significant issues in the propagation   understood well by students, including   resistance to this concept is not strong   Source: Directorate of
 held Ramadan on Campus (Ramadan di   strategy. Campus Islamic movements that   campus activist movements. LDK and   enough. The majority of LDK and   History and Cultural
 Kampus, RDC).   are belonged to a pragmatic idealism as   KAMMI generally support the concept   KAMMI activists on several campuses   Values, Ministry of
 well as to provide an alternative solution to   of Sharia, but they do not know exactly   in Yogyakarta do not frontally reject the   Education and Culture
 To maintain consistent propaganda as   the social problems will be more attractive   how the application of Sharia in everyday   concept of democracy, but they tend to
 well as to raise members, some campus   to students.   life. So far the campus Islamic movement   say that it is okay as far as it does not   of the Republic of
 Islamic movements use varieties of   activists would rather understand the   contrary to Islam. Several other activists   Indonesia
 media. Most organizations hold activities   Besides, normative-cognitive aspects   Sharia as taken for granted, because   believe that through democracy the
 such as study clubs, publishing weekly   are also significant in the member   from the beginning they understood   Sharia and Islamic caliphate can still be
 bulletins, or using information media and   recruitment. Based on surveys in some   Islam as a complete religion. For them,   realized.
 technologies such as SMS or Facebook   campus Islamic movements, students   Sharia means the formalization of Islamic
 for member gathering. In additions, some   are more interested in getting involved   law. Some movements want to spread   The HMI activists, PMII, and IMM are
 of the movements use also internet blogs   into the Islamic movements not only   Sharia within campuses, although they   very diverse in understanding the various
 and websites as the propagation media   to deepen their religious knowledge,   do not explain what they mean by the   concepts above. Although some activists
 and the interconnecting forum among the   but also for capacity building as for the   concept.   expressed support for the concept of
 members.   formation of their character, discover   Sharia and Islamic caliphate, in general
 their-own potential, as well as the   In line with the Sharia, the concept of   theyareless agreed with the concepts
 It should be emphasized that the   process of maturity. The above aspects   Islamic caliphate is also not clearly   that they think are still unclear and not
 member recruitment and the movement   are carefully discerned by various   understood by some campus Islamic   applicable. In line with other movement
 strategy are closely related to how the   campus Islamic movements, so that they   movements. Although some LDK and   activists, activists of HMI, PMII, and IMM
 Islamic movement could gain victory over   become an alternative organization for   KAMMI activists support this idea, they   generally do not reject Western concepts
 the “wars” against varieties of opinion   students.  do not quite have a clear idea of the   such as democracy and pluralism. So
 voiced by other Islamic movements. In   concept of how the roadmap towards   far, students tend to see democracy and
 social movements, the process is known   4) Central Issues of Struggle  the Islamic caliphate would be achieved.   pluralism as political and social concepts
 to be framing. The framing process can   They understand that this concept is   that are neutral and less ideological or
 be done in varieties of media, both in the   Campus Islamic movements cannot   good only because of their normative   opposing the Islamic ideology.
 discussion rooms, pamphlets, tabloids,   be released from any contemporary   understanding of Islam.
 or in informal forums. 54  issues when Islam confronts modernity.   5) A Campus Base Movement
 Among the issues to be discussed in   The concept of democracy and pluralism
 54. Abdul Wahib Situmorang, Gerakan Sosial: studi   The Islamic movement is rampant as this
 kasus beberapa perlawanan. Yogyakarta: Pustaka   this subchapter are the Sharia, Islamic   is actually not much different from
 Pelajar, 2007), p.12-13.  caliphate, democracy, and pluralism.  the concept of Sharia and the Islamic   develops not only by the general public



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