Selefiliğe ve Endonezya İslamı’nın Araplaşmasına Direniş: Kamaruddin Hidayet’in Didaktik Bir Çağdaş Endonezya Hikâyesi

Abstract

Adopting Arabic clothing styles and in other ways mimicking Saudi Arabian cultural practice is one of the defining characteristics of the Indonesian tarbiyah (Islamic edu-cation) movement and the more general influence of Saudi Arabian Wahhabism and other forms of Middle Eastern style Salafism that has emerged in Indonesia since the early 1980s. This paper includes a translation of and extended com-mentary on a short story by Profes-sor Komaruddin Hidayat of Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic Univer-sity in Jakarta that is highly critical of this trend. This is a counter nar-rative that references two Indone¬sian national heroes: Kyai Hasyim Asy’ari (1875-1947) one of the fo¬unders of Nahdatul Ulama, the country’s largest Muslim organiza¬tion and Mohammad Hatta (1902-1980), the first Vice President. Pro¬fessor Hidayat uses a short story to make the point that Islamic aut¬henticity need not be based on the emulation of Saudi Arabian cultural practices and that Islam, Indone¬sian cultures, and nationalism are entirely compatible.