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View all search resultsIndonesia has continued to grapple with the tension that exists between Islamic orthodoxy and the ideals of equality of citizenship and equality before the law, which form the bedrock of both its political settlement and the modern nation state.
Two of Indonesia's biggest Islamic organizations, Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), may have failed to snatch the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize but experts believe they need to press on to promote peaceful Islam to the world.
Hundreds of Muslim youth raised a variety of concerns on the new wave of religious puritanism and Islamism in early February. They found such ideas have affected many important parts of their lives, particularly regarding religious or cultural-based practices and political ideology.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo laid the first stone for the construction of a new state university that carries his administration’s high ambition to make Indonesia “the center of Islamic civilization in the world” and to promote Indonesia’s Islam, which is “plural, tolerant and open”.
Whether it is historically accurate to say that Barus in Central Tapanuli is ground zero of the civilization of Islam Nusantara (Islam in the Archipelago) is irrelevant to President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, who came all the way from Jakarta to the remote region in Sumatra to officiate a monument claiming exactly that.
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