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Studia Islamika
ISSN : 02150492     EISSN : 23556145     DOI : https://doi.org/10.36712/sdi
Core Subject : Religion,
STUDIA ISLAMIKA (ISSN 0215-0492) is an international journal published by the Center for the Study of Islam and Society (PPIM), Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta, Indonesia (STT DEPPEN No. 129/SK/DITJEN/PPG/STT/1976). Focus The journal aims to provide readers with a deeper understanding of the history and contemporary developments of Islam in Indonesia and Southeast Asia through the publication of scholarly articles and book reviews. Scope STUDIA ISLAMIKA specializes in Indonesian Islamic studies in particular, and Southeast Asian Islamic studies in general. The journal is intended to communicate original research and current scholarly discussions on the subject. Contributions from scholars in related disciplines are warmly welcomed.
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Muhammadiyah Bugis-Makassar: Dispersal of Muslim Organizations in and from South Sulawesi, Indonesia Halim, Wahyuddin; Nubowo, Andar
Studia Islamika Vol. 32 No. 2 (2025): Studia Islamika
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v32i2.42544

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This study examines the dispersal of Islamic authority within Muhammadiyah in South Sulawesi and how local cultural values influence Islamic reformism. It highlights the emergence of new organizations such as Darul Istiqamah, Hidayatullah, and Wahdah Islamiyah, founded by Muhammadiyah activists with distinct institutional paths. These organizations emerged through ideological shift, cultural entrepreneurship, and political opportunity. Bugis-Makassar values, particularly siri’ (shame and dignity) and pessé/paccé (solidarity), promote independent leadership and institutional creation over internal compromise. Drawing on political opportunity, resource mobilization, and sectarianization theories, the study shows that religious authority dispersal is shaped by local socio-cultural logics. The Darul Islam movement’s legacy further supports more rigid reformist visions. Rather than fragmentation, this process reflects culturally mediated adaptation and innovation. The concept of “Muhammadiyah Bugis-Makassar” illustrates how local cultural dynamics catalyze Islamic reform into networked activism, where regional values reshape organizational boundaries and influence broader Islamic movements. This framework offers insights into cultural mediation of Islamic reform trajectories across Indonesia.
The Scribe of Sufi-Philosophical Letters: Shaykh Yūsuf of Makassar’s Formative Decades (1640s-1660s) in Arabia and Syria Umam, Zacky Khairul
Studia Islamika Vol. 31 No. 3 (2024): Studia Islamika
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v31i3.42953

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This article addresses the circumstances surrounding Shaykh Yūsuf’s pursuit of knowledge, which involved traveling overseas via India to study and teach in Ottoman Arabia and Syria. The article’s main objective is to focus on the period during which Shaykh Yūsuf played an intellectual role as a scribe in Aleppo, Damascus, and Medina between the 1650s and the 1660s. This will be achieved by utilizing the manuscript collections at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Firestone Library of Princeton University, and the National Library of Indonesia, in addition to other archival evidence. These underexplored manuscripts will provide a more comprehensive account of Shaykh Yūsuf’s Arabian years, which I contend were a pivotal period in his intellectual development. Moreover, this period offers an additional perspective on the dissemination of knowledge from the post-Timurid intellectual tradition, which was oriented towards the advancement of theological-philosophical sciences, and which became prevalent in Medina before being disseminated in the second half of the seventeenth century.
Educating Ulama to Address Climate Change: The Greenpeace MENA-Ummah for Earth Rohayati, Tati
Studia Islamika Vol. 31 No. 3 (2024): Studia Islamika
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v31i3.42956

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To address the question of how extensively Islamic institutions have integrated climate change and environmental (CCE) issues into their curriculum, the Center for the Study of Islam and Society (PPIM) at UIN Jakarta, in collaboration with Greenpeace Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Ummah for Earth, launched the Greenpeace MENA-Ummah for Earth program. This initiative, which began in July 2023, aims to analyze the curricula of Islamic universities and develop strategies for addresing climate and environmental principles into teaching materials. The program seeks to strengthen the role of Muslim community, particularly the Ulama, in promoting environmental conservation efforts.
Mencari Peran Islam Politik dalam Demokrasi Indonesia Testriono, Testriono
Studia Islamika Vol. 31 No. 3 (2024): Studia Islamika
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v31i3.43753

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This article reviews Diego Fossati’s (2022) Unity through Division: Political Islam, Representation and Democracy in Indonesia. The book attempts to answer why Indonesians have become increasingly satisfied with democracy despite their country’s democratic decline in recent years. The book answers the question by focusing on an overlooked aspect of democratic practice in Indonesia, namely political representation. This book argues that the ideological division between pluralism and Islamism has profound implications for substantive representation, partisanship, and public understanding of democracy. In summary, the division over political Islam has contributed to the meaning of political participation, the consolidation of the legitimacy of democratic institutions in the eyes of Indonesians, and the eventual maintenance of democracy in Indonesia. Overall, this book provides a nuanced account of the role political Islam plays in Indonesian politics, especially with respect to ideological representation and a discussion on a democratic decline in Indonesian politics.
Building the Soul of the Indonesian Nation: Mohammad Hatta on Religion, the State Foundation, and Character Building Latif, Yudi
Studia Islamika Vol. 32 No. 2 (2025): Studia Islamika
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v32i2.45220

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Mohammad Hatta (1902–1980), Indonesia’s first Vice President and co-proclaimer of independence, was also an intellectual statesman, economist, educator, and prolific writer. This essay explores Hatta’s vision of nurturing the moral and spiritual soul of the nation—encompassing mental-spiritual development, national character, and public morality—through his writings and speeches on religion, statehood, education, culture, and nationhood from the 1930s to the 1970s. His religious outlook was substantive and inclusive, emphasizing shared values across faiths. This enabled a balanced view of religion’s public role, transcending the dichotomy of ‘integration’ and ‘separation’, and anticipating José Casanova’s and Alfred Stepan’s concept of ‘differentiation’. Hatta stressed character education and human capability as the foundations of a sovereign, just, and prosperous Indonesia based on Pancasila. His notion of progress—focused on improving quality of life and human capabilities through education and health—preceded the human development framework later developed by Amartya Sen. He emphasized the integration of intellectual excellence and moral integrity to build a dignified nation with a noble national character.
The Social Scientific Study of Islam in Indonesia: A 75 Year Retrospective Hefner, Robert W.
Studia Islamika Vol. 32 No. 1 (2025): Studia Islamika
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v32i1.45289

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This essay provides an historical overview of broad currents in the social scientific study of Islam in Indonesia from the Modjokuto project of the early 1950s to today. It makes three broad points. First, the essay shows that a perennial influence on the refiguration of Muslim politics and ethics in Indonesia has been, not scriptural principles alone, but the global ascendance of the modern nation state and Muslim intellectuals’ and politicians’ efforts to craft a Muslim public ethics consonant with the realities of a modern and religiously plural nation. Second, the essay shows that another feature of the social scientific study of Islam in Indonesia has been the ascendance of Indonesia-born Muslim intellectuals to positions of intellectual leadership in the field. Third, the overview makes clear that one of the most important recent achievements of this social scientific research has been to explain how Indonesia succeeded in developing the most effective and sustainable democracy in the Muslim-majority world.
Gender and Islam in Indonesian Studies, A Retrospective Smith-Hefner, Nancy J.
Studia Islamika Vol. 32 No. 1 (2025): Studia Islamika
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v32i1.45296

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This essay considers continuities and discontinuities in the study of gender and Islam in Indonesia since the 1960s, tracing key themes that emerged early on and in many cases continue to animate contemporary scholarly discussion. Important themes include enduring patterns of matrifocality; the complementarity of gender roles; and the “essential bilateralism” of gender orders – which have led to assessments of the “relatively high status of Southeast Asian women.” This essay will focus on the impact of the resurgent interest in Islam on Indonesian gender studies from the 1980s until today, emphasizing the evolving status and role of women in the context of recent social and political developments and the rise of a new Indonesian Muslim middle class. It argues for the continuing importance of local, on-the-ground case studies that speak to broader regional patterns but also to Indonesia’s impressive ethnic and regional diversity.
Indonesian Post-Orientalist Study of Islam Ali, Muhamad
Studia Islamika Vol. 32 No. 1 (2025): Studia Islamika
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This article seeks to explain the emergence of an Indonesian post-Orientalist study of Islam from the 1990s onwards, which results from the increased influx of Indonesian-born scholars into the study of Indonesian Islam, a field previously dominated by Western-born scholars. In contrast to Edward Said’s adverse Orientalists, to the Arabic-based dirāsah islāmiyyah, and the previous generations of Indonesian Western-educated scholars, the post-1990s generation of pesantren-and-Western-educated Indonesian scholarship has taken selectively elements from Islamic texts and traditions, humanities, and social sciences in analyzing contemporary Islamic beliefs and practices. With an eclectic intellectualism combining faith and public mission, Indonesian Muslim scholars have reinterpreted Qur’anic and classical Islamic concepts while engaging different Western theories regarding religion, law, identity, and social movements. By analyzing local and national figures and movements, using diverse sources, and negotiating the tensions between the normative, practical, scriptural, and contextual, they aim to represent Islam and Muslims in their diversity and complexity in global, national, and local dynamics. With collaborative work at home and abroad, they contribute to pursuing different trajectories with scholarship and activism for Indonesian society and beyond.
Shedding Light on Indonesian Islam: The Latest Trends from Europe Fadlan, Muhammad Nida'
Studia Islamika Vol. 32 No. 1 (2025): Studia Islamika
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36712/sdi.v32i1.45343

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On December 13, 2024, the Institute for Languages and Cultures of the Islamicate World at the University of Cologne held the “Indonesian Studies Day 2024” in Cologne, Germany. Chaired by Prof. Dr. Edwin P. Wieringa (Professor of Indonesian Philology, University of Cologne) and co-chaired by Muhammad Nida’ Fadlan (PhD researcher in Indonesian Islamic Philology, University of Cologne), this academic event focused on the intersection of religion, culture, and identity within the context of Islam in Indonesia. It served as a colloquium that gathered Indonesian PhD students in Europe to discuss the latest research on this subject. There were two main reasons for this event. First, Indonesia is a country that is globally still unfamiliar to many people, even though it has the largest population of Muslims in the world. The attempts to showcase the rich Islamic heritage of Indonesia have not yet been very successful. Second and relatedly, there is still a need to promote academic activities related to Indonesian Islamic studies. This forum brought together doctoral students from different European universities who are researching various topics related to Indonesian Islam, enabling profound and fruitful discussions. By coming together, this intellectual gathering encourages and furthers research in this area.
Paradoxical Pluralism: Training Militants for Tolerance in an Indonesian Youth Movement Lukens-Bull, Ronald Alan; Makin, Al
Studia Islamika Vol. 32 No. 2 (2025): Studia Islamika
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This article explores the paradoxical militarized pluralism as practiced by Banser, the paramilitary wing of Ansor (Nahdlatul Ulama’s youth movement). Based on ethnographic fieldwork and reading literature about the issue, the study reveals how Banser’s ideological training programs propagate pluralistic values at the grassroots level, reinforcing Indonesia’s ideological foundation Pancasila. However, the organization’s reliance on hierarchical command structures contradicts liberal democratic ideals of reasoning and individual conscience. The paper also demonstrates Banser’s dual role as both a bulwark against religious extremism and a site of ongoing ideological contestation in national level of Indonesia and within NU’s. The finding shows a model of “illiberal pluralism” - communally bounded, effective in promoting pluralism in the grassroot level, yet it may slip into authoritarian style, merely fulfilling the political interest of its elite commands. Ultimately, the study questions whether institutionalized militant methods can produce authentic tolerance, or merely enforce a hegemonic version of top-down command. The paper invites broader debates about pluralism’s compatibility with illiberal political frameworks in post-reformasi Indonesia, while democratic trajectory is declining.

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