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Ambivalent Occidentalism in Mochtar Lubis’s Cold War Literature Maut dan Cinta  Taufiqurrohman, Muhammad; Sudibyo, Sudibyo; Manshur, Fadlil Munawwar
Journal of Language and Literature Vol 25, No 2 (2025): October
Publisher : Universitas Sanata Dharma

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24071/joll.v25i2.12538

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This article revisits Maut dan Cinta (1977), a seminal Cold War-era novel by Indonesian author Mochtar Lubis, to examine how the text engages with cultural imperialism in postcolonial Indonesia through its complex portrayal of the Occident. Employing Martin Suryajaya’s “wide-close-deep” methodology—a three-pronged framework for literary analysis—the study situates Lubis’s work within Indonesia’s Cold War cultural politics, highlighting the author’s contested ideological stance. Through the lenses of Occidentalism and cultural imperialism, the analysis reveals Lubis’s profound ambivalence toward Western influence: while critiquing Western hegemony and cautioning against uncritical adoption of Western values, his works simultaneously echo the capitalist Bloc’s anticommunist rhetoric, and his cultural-intellectual networks remain entrenched in Western capital. This paradox deepens with Lubis’s selective embrace of Western liberalism, which coexists with a striking silence on capitalism’s role in perpetuating global inequality. Crucially, his vehement rejection of communist internationalism starkly contrasts with his reluctance to address capitalism’s transnational exploitation of the Global South—a contradiction epitomized by his protagonist Sadeli’s distorted view of the Occident and the characters’ failure to recognize global capitalism’s neocolonial and culturally imperialist dynamics. By unpacking these tensions, the study argues that Lubis’s ambivalence in Maut dan Cinta reflects the broader ideological fissures of postcolonial intellectual resistance during the Cold War, caught between anti-imperialist critique and complicity in hegemonic structures. 
Following the Global Rejection: The Motives of Majelis Ulama Indonesia's Fatwas on Ahmadiyah Alnizar, Fariz; Manshur, Fadlil Munawwar; Ma'ruf, Amir
Studia Islamika Vol. 29 No. 3 (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.v29i3.15349

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This article examines the motives behind the decisions of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), in 1980 and 2005, to issue fatwas condemning the Ahmadiyah. Using critical discourse analysis, this study reveals MUI’s motives behind its fatwas on the Ahmadiyah by drawing on the text and the context of the issuance of the fatwas. Underpinning MUI’s issuance of its fatwa on the Ahmadiyah Qadiyan in 1980 was the global rejection of the Ahmadiyah, particularly in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Meanwhile, MUI’s fatwa on the Ahmadiyah in 2005 was informed by an increased rejection of the Ahmadiyah in Indonesia, which was based on the Jalsa Salana Ahmadiyah meeting in 2005, in Parung, Bogor. In the fatwa’s dictum, MUI positions itself as the guardian of the Islamic creed. MUI’s choice of wording and language style in its fatwas demonstrates its desire to display its authority as a quasi-non-governmental organization.
Pelatihan Penulisan Cerita Lokal Bergenre Magis di Komunitas Sastra Darussalam Faruk, Faruk; Manshur, Fadlil Munawwar
Bakti Budaya: Jurnal Pengabdian kepada masyarakat Vol 5 No 1 (2022): 2022: Edisi 1
Publisher : Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22146/bakti.4076

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The third-year of service activities (2021) at the Komunitas Sastra Darussalam were centered on training in writing local stories of the magical genre. Komunitas Sastra Darussalam has the potential to maximize the pesantren’s cultural background as the basis for their writing, such as through the genre of magical realism which is considered very close to their lives. Through training and mentoring held by the service community team, it is expected that they will ignite their ability to continue developing to compete at the national or global level. In the first year (2019), activities are focused on developing story ideas that produce mini-fictions about life with a pesantren background. In the second year (2020), service participants received training on writing realism genre literary works. So, in the third year (2021), the activities focused on the story’s substance, that is rewriting local stories (folklore) with the magical genre. From this training and mentoring that has been carried out, it was found that the tendency of writing local stories by KSD writers has shown its magical side. The stories explored by the participants were quite diverse, not only tending to explore local stories, but the participants also showed their tendencies as a pesantren community, some of them took stories with a magical substance that developed in Islam. ==== Kegiatan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat pada tahun ketiga (2021) di Komunitas Sastra Darussalam dipusatkan pada pelatihan penulisan cerita lokal bergenre magis. Komunitas Sastra Darussalam sendiri adalah sebuah kelompok yang berpotensi menumbuhkan penulis-penulis yang dapat memaksimalkan latar budaya pesantren sebagai basis kepenulisan mereka, di antaranya, melalui genre realisme magis yang dianggap sangat dekat dengan kehidupan mereka. Pelatihan dan pendampingan yang diadakan oleh Tim Pengabdian ini diharapkan mampu memantik kemampuan anggota komunitas untuk terus berkembang dan bersaing dalam tataran nasional ataupun global. Jika tahun pertama (2019) kegiatan difokuskan pada pengembangan ide cerita yang menghasilkan fiksi mini mengenai kehidupan berlatar pesantren, tahun kedua (2020) peserta pengabdian mendapat pelatihan mengenai penulisan karya sastra bergenre realisme, dan pada tahun ketiga (2021), kegiatan difokuskan pada substansi cerita, yaitu menulis ulang cerita lokal (cerita rakyat) yang bergenre magis. Dari pelatihan dan pendampingan yang telah dilakukan ditemukan bahwa kencenderungan penulisan cerita lokal oleh penulis-penulis KSD telah menampakkan sisi magisnya. Cerita yang dieksplorasi peserta cukup beragam, tidak hanya cenderung pada eksplorasi cerita-cerita lokal, peserta juga menampakkan kecenderungan mereka sebagai masyarakat pesantren, yaitu sebagian di antara mereka mengambil cerita-cerita bersubstansi magis yang berkembang dalam Islam.
NURCHOLISH MADJID ON INDONESIAN ISLAMIC EDUCATION: A HERMENEUTICAL STUDY Safitri, Lis; Manshur, Fadlil Munawwar; Thoyyar, Husni
Islam Futura Vol 22 No 2 (2022): Jurnal Ilmiah Islam Futura
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Ar-Raniry

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.22373/jiif.v22i2.5749

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Indonesian Muslims need a well-established Islamic education that can accommodate diversity as the characteristic of Indonesia. Nurcholish Madjid (1939-2005), a neo-Modernist, has an inclusive and philosophical Islamic thought that can be used as the philosophical paradigm of Indonesian Islamic education. This study intends to interpret the thinking of Nurcholish Madjid related to Islamic education using Hans Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutic model. This study shows that knowledge is a manifestation of ‘aql, one of human potential as khalīfah. Cak Nur’s objective of Islamic education is divided into four categories that led to the awareness of human existence as God’s servant and khalīfah. The model of Cak Nur’s education is humanistic education which focuses on moral education. The multicultural education of Cak Nur, which comes from the generic meaning of Islam, is tolerance education to the diversity of religions, religious understanding, and the acceptance of local wisdom. Cak Nur's educational thinking is not a practical theory, but a philosophical foundation that is easily accepted by people with the epistemology of burhānī thought.