Understanding Islamism in the Reformation Era in Indonesia: A Political Reflection

Herdi Sahrasad, Muhammad Amin Nurdin, Ismatu Ropi, Al Chaidar Abdurrahman Puteh

Abstract

This study examines the important reasons for the burgeoning of Islamism in the context of democratization in Indonesia. This qualitative study found that authoritarian political repression during the New Order regime (1965-1998) failed the secular middle class to emerge as an alternative political force as they already coopted into the developmentalist discourse that supports the globalization of the neoliberal economy. In this context, the Islamic social movement has become an alternative force as it has already accumulated socio-political deprivation among urban Muslims under the New Order repression. This kind of deprivation has constructed the idea of Islamism as a response to global and national socio-political inequality and future uncertainty among Moslems at the local level.

 

Keywords: Islamism, Indonesia, developmentalism, democracy, socio-political deprivation, inequality.

 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.55463/hkjss.issn.1021-3619.62.7


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