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Discourse on the Political Role of Civil Society in Building Democracy in Indonesia from the Perspective of Intellectuals in East Java Wing Artha, Gratia
Asketik: Jurnal Agama dan Perubahan Sosial Vol. 9 No. 1 (2025): Asketik: Jurnal Agama dan Perubahan Sosial
Publisher : Prodi Sosiologi Agama

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30762/asketik.v9i1.1923

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Post-reform, Indonesian civil society faces significant challenges in building democracy. This study examines the discourse on the political role of civil society according to intellectual groups in Surabaya and Malang, East Java. This research investigates intellectual groups in both cities that have established higher education bases and capabilities to enliven the provincial political space, using qualitative methods. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, observations, and documentation of informants' thoughts from journals, books, and media articles. The main findings identify three intellectual groups with different discourses: 1) Critical Group, where civil society plays a role in building democracy by becoming a controlling force against state power; 2) Moderate Group, where civil society needs to cooperate with the state in building democracy; 3) Hybrid Group, where civil society needs to cooperate with the state while maintaining a critical stance. This research reveals the complexity of East Java intellectuals' views on the political role of civil society post-reform. The three groups demonstrate a spectrum of thought from oppositional control to critical collaboration, reflecting the dynamics of state-civil society relations in Indonesia's democratization process.
From Cosmopolitanism Islam to Colonial Hegemony: Rereading the Social History of the Aru Islands as the Economic Base of Eastern Indonesia Sahradad, Herdi; Wing Artha, Gratia
Tebuireng: Journal of Islamic Studies and Society Vol. 6 No. 2 (2025): Tebuireng: Journal of Islamic Studies and Society
Publisher : Fakultas Agama Islam, Universitas Hasyim Asy'ari

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.33752/tjiss.v6i2.11303

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This article explores the traces of cosmopolitanism and Islamic colonialism in the Aru Islands, Maluku (Moluccas) which took place several centuries ago. Also depicts the social history of the Aru Islands, Maluku, in the map of Indonesia's national history. In the era of Southeast Asian trade, the Aru Islands have long been fostered under a very open, cosmopolitan and dynamic Islamic authority where trade and migration are the daily dynamics of the people in this very exotic and rich archipelago. Islam continues to spread to Papua from the Aru Islands, which proves how strong the resilience of the island's people is. Changes occurred when the West colonial powers entered the islands until finally there was a physical conflict in the form of war. Because they did not prepare themselves, the Muslims here lost and were thrown to other islands while continuing to struggle against the West colonial powers. Colonialism increasingly instilled its power and spread a religion (Christian) that was different from Islam (the general belief) held in the Aru Islands. This Western colonialism created complex dynamics, where trade on the one hand was increasingly bustling, but colonial hegemony over the Aru islands was also very real and sharp and shrouded in physical conflict between the Aru Islands Muslims and European colonialists.