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For Donation, Organisation, and Nation: Muhammadiyah’s Charity Stamp Program, 1941-1942 Zara, Muhammad Yuanda
Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies Vol 62, No 1 (2024)
Publisher : Al-Jami'ah Research Centre

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.14421/ajis.2024.621.117-152

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Studies on Muhammadiyah’s charitable works mostly discuss the charitable institutions Muhammadiyah founded, such as hospitals and orphanages, and neglect one-off fundraising activities. This study examines Muhammadiyah’s strategies in promoting ‘Muhammadiyah charity stamps’ to the Netherlands Indies people in 1941. This study shows that although stamps are only small postal items, Muhammadiyah paid great attention to promoting and selling these stamps. It ran a well-organised and national-scale campaign, mobilising its network of branches and groups throughout the Indies. Muhammadiyah used all available campaign media, such as magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, pictures, songs and meetings. To maximise promotion, Muhammadiyah emphasised that buying these charity stamps meant giving donations that Allah would reward, supporting Muhammadiyah’s movements, and helping the welfare of the indigenous people. These charity stamps helped Muhammadiyah raise enormous funds and strengthened its reputation at home and abroad as a social movement that cared for the less fortunate. This study elucidates the largest and most successful one-off charitable fundraising effort, but so far still forgotten in the historiography of Indonesian Islam, which was carried out by an indigenous Muslim socio-religious organisation during the colonial period, using previously overlooked primary documents dating from 1941-1942.[Studi mengenai kiprah Muhammadiyah di bidang amal umumnya membahas tentang institusi amal yang didirikannya, seperti rumah sakit dan panti asuhan. Kegiatan pengumpulan dana yang sifatnya sekali waktu saja banyak diabaikan. Kajian ini membahas strategi Muhammadiyah dalam mempromosikan ‘prangko amal Muhammadiyah’ kepada masyarakat Hindia Belanda pada tahun 1941. Kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa walaupun prangko hanya berupa benda pos kecil, Muhammadiyah memberikan perhatian yang luar biasa untuk mempromosikan dan menjual prangko ini. Organisasi ini menjalankan kampanye yang rapi dan berskala nasional, dengan menggerakkan jaringan cabang dan rantingnya di seluruh Hindia. Muhammadiyah menggunakan segala macam media kampanye yang tersedia, seperti majalah, surat kabar, pamflet, gambar, nyanyian, dan pertemuan-pertemuan. Untuk memaksimalkan promosi, Muhammadiyah menekankan bahwa membeli prangko amal ini berarti melakukan amal yang berpahala, menyokong gerakan sosial Muhammadiyah, dan membantu menyejahterakan masyarakat pribumi. Prangko amal ini membantu Muhammadiyah mengumpulkan dana yang sangat besar dan memperkuat reputasinya di dalam dan luar negeri sebagai gerakan sosial yang menaruh perhatian pada mereka yang kurang beruntung. Kajian ini menerangkan tentang usaha pengumpulan dana amal sekali-waktu yang terbesar dan tersukses, namun sejauh ini masih terlupakan dalam historiografi Islam Indonesia, yang dilakukan suatu organisasi sosial-keagamaan Muslim pribumi pada masa kolonial, dengan menggunakan dokumen-dokumen primer yang berasal dari tahun 1941-1942.]
Islamic Patriotism in General Sudirman Comic Strips of Suara Muhammadijah Magazine (1966-1967) Zara, Muhammad Yuanda
Studia Islamika Vol. 29 No. 2 (2022): Studia Islamika
Publisher : Center for Study of Islam and Society (PPIM) Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v29i2.19588

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This paper examines 29 editions of comic serials portraying the struggle of one of the most influential military commanders in modern Indonesian history, General Sudirman, published from 1966-67 by the official magazine of Muhammadiyah, Suara Muhammadijah. By using a historical and comic studies approach, this research reveals that the comic aimed to arouse a feeling of Islamic patriotism among readers of the magazine. The still-ill Sudirman was visually depicted as a devout Muslim, whose patriotism and survival ability in guerrilla operations deep in Java’s forests during the Dutch-Indonesian war were illustrated as being rooted in his Islamic faith and his experience as a young member of Hizbul Wathan, Muhammadiyah’s boy scout group. This study sheds light on comics, a neglected product of Indonesian Islamic cultural history, which sought to renegotiate the important place of Islam during the Dutch-Indonesian war (1945-1949), amid the new opportunities presented by the political turmoil that occurred during the final phase of President Sukarno’s rule, when this comic was published.
Syuhada Mosque and Its Community in Changing Yogyakarta, 1950s-1980s Zara, Muhammad Yuanda
Journal of Indonesian Social Sciences and Humanities Vol. 6 No. 2 (2016): Journal of Indonesian Social Sciences and Humanities
Publisher : RMPI-BRIN

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One of Yogyakarta city’s symbols of colonialism is the Kotabaru region, which during the colonial period was a housing complex for Dutch officials and a handful of Indonesian elite. The Japanese took over the area during their Occupation. Following Indonesian independence, Indonesians seized the area for the interests of the newly born Republic of Indonesia. Syuhada Mosque, the first modern mosque in post-independence Indonesia, was then built there, representing both Islam and Indonesian nationalism, as the mosque’s name and location suggest. Unlike most Indonesian mosques at the time, which were established primarily as a place for worship, Syuhada brought social and political missions. The activities of its community encompassed religious practices (such as five obligatory daily prayers and recital of Koranic verses), handling social matters (education for children, youth and women, debate on Islam and modernity, and counter-Christianization activities), as well as responding to national politics (such as the anti-Communist movement in 1960s). Its community mostly lived outside the immediate environment of the mosque, yet Syuhada managed to present itself not just as a mosque for a small community, but for a city, even for the Indonesian nation-state. Given its four decades of overarching religious and sociopolitical functions, the mosque is deliberately aimed at a new generation of Indonesian Muslims: middle class, urban, educated, and open-minded Muslims, and serves as a role model for later mosques and religious institutions.
Tracking Javanese Traditional Arts in North Sumatra 1900-1930s Darini, Ririn; Setiawan, Nanang; Zara, Muhammad Yuanda; Murdiyastomo, Agus
JUSPI (Jurnal Sejarah Peradaban Islam) Vol 9, No 2 (2026)
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera Utara

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30829/juspi.v9i2.25703

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Until now, several traditional Javanese arts such as ketoprak, horse braids, and wayang orang can be found in North Sumatra. This research aims to find out why and how Javanese traditional art can develop in this region. The method used in this research is a historical method which includes 4 research stages, namely heuristics, criticism, interpretation and historiography. The research results show that traditional Javanese art has been present in North Sumatra since the colonial era because of Javanese migrants who were employed on foreign plantations. They brought with them Javanese cultural heritage in the form of performing arts, such as gamelan, ketoprak, wayang orang, and dances. This traditional art was deliberately given a place by plantation entrepreneurs to make their workers feel at home. In its development, this traditional art not only functions as a form of entertainment and expression of cultural identity, but also as a tool to maintain collective spirit and solidarity amidst harsh and often unfair working conditions.