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--- On Mon, 12/9/11, Sunny <[email protected]> wrote: From: Sunny <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [proletar] Struggle for a voice of tolerance To: [email protected] Received: Monday, 12 September, 2011, 5:51 AM Mungkin Ulil dijadikan penasehat SBY supaya tidak banyak cerewet. Terikat dengan gaji besar, langkah dibatasi dan mulut tersumbat. From: item abu Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 12:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [proletar] Struggle for a voice of tolerance Cuh, kalo si Ulil itu betul spt itu, FPI itu udah dibubarkan. Nayatany FPI terus aja merajalela. Ulil itu ga lebih dr oportunis tulen. >________________________________ >From: Sunny <mailto:ambon%40tele2.se> >To: mailto:Undisclosed-Recipient%40yahoo.com >Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2011 6:13 PM >Subject: [proletar] Struggle for a voice of tolerance > > > >http://www.smh.com.au/world/struggle-for-a-voice-of-tolerance-20110909-1k1ve.html > >Struggle for a voice of tolerance >Tom Allard Jakarta >September 10, 2011 > >Indonesian Islamic scholar Ulil Abshar Abdalla photographed in Australia last >year. Photo: Paul Rovere > >Ulil Abshar Abdalla is a Harvard-educated Islamic reformer, an adviser to >President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and one of Indonesia's most perceptive >intellectuals. > >Ask him about what has happened to Islam in Indonesia since the September 11 >attacks, and he says: ''I think there has been a trend towards intolerance … >there is also a trend towards tolerance.'' > >It's an odd response, even nonsensical, but it captures succinctly the vexing >paradox that lies within Australia's near neighbour and the nation with the >world's largest Muslim population. > >Advertisement: Story continues below >After emerging as the fulcrum of the global jihadist movement in south-east >Asia in 2002 when the twin nightclub bombings in Bali killed and maimed >hundreds of people, Indonesia can rightly point to impressive counterterrorism >successes. > >Hundreds of arrests have been made and dozens of plots have been foiled. The >radical cleric and former Jemaah Islamiah leader Abu Bakar Bashir, finally, >has been given a long prison term while almost every other terrorist leader of >note has either been killed or arrested. > >A tiny minority remains inspired by al-Qaeda and poses an enduring threat but, >unquestionably, the campaign to spread the ideology of offensive jihad against >Western infidels and their lackeys to achieve an Islamic caliphate has been >comprehensively rejected. > >''Islam has contributed so much to the democratisation of Indonesia. This must >be emphasised,'' says Ulil, the founder of the Liberal Islam Network and >himself a target of Indonesian terrorists. ''Most Muslims here understand that >religion is a system of morality, an ethical system and that politics is not >part of the essential teaching of religion. The popularity of this proposal of >the adoption of sharia in our national law is withering away, it's fading.'' > >Indonesia's Islamic parties were rebuffed at the polls in 2009, and recently >the country's most potent Islamist political force, the Prosperous Justice >Party formally adopted pluralism as a core principle in its platform. > >But, while Indonesian authorities remain vigilant in pursuing terrorists, they >seem incapable, if not unwilling, to address another, arguably more pernicious >form of religious radicalism. > >Rather than explosives, these mobs of militants will use machetes, stones or >tins of petrol to attack perceived deviants and destroy houses of worship. > >The increase in violence has been particularly pronounced against members of >the Ahmadiyah Islamic sect, whose followers believe the Indian religious >figure Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was a messiah who followed the prophet Muhammad. > >In the western Javanese province of Banten, a frenzied mob attacked an >Ahmadiyah house and killed three men in February. The 12 accused, including a >teenager caught on film bludgeoning a man to death with a stone, got jail >sentences of between three and six months. > >One of the Ahmadi victims, whose hand was almost severed by a machete, was >also jailed for six months for refusing to follow police orders to flee the >scene. His actions meant he had provoked the attack, prosecutors argued. > >Some argue the light sentences reflected local factors. The verdict was handed >down by judges in a district court in one of Indonesia's traditional hardline >Islamic heartlands. Some 2000 locals descended on the court to voice support >for the accused and intimidated the judges and prosecutors throughout the >trial. > >But the argument that the case is an anomaly is hard to square with the >general and pronounced rise in communal violence - invariably attacks by >Islamic fundamentalists on Ahmadis and Christians. > >Recent research by the Pew Research Centre, which gauges societal attitudes >and trends, found Indonesia was one of two countries that recorded significant >increases in religious restrictions and incidents of social hostility in the >past five years. > >Harder still to reconcile with the notion that Indonesia remains abidingly >tolerant is the overwhelmingly tepid response from Indonesia's political >elites to the rise in religious violence and, in particular, the attacks and >court proceedings in Banten. President Yudhoyono failed to condemn the >verdicts, citing the need to respect the rule of law. > >If Islamists are failing to make political inroads, and Indonesian Muslims are >overwhelmingly moderate, why does Indonesia's political class refuse to speak >clearly and loudly for the country's secular constitution that recognises >freedom of religion? Could it be they have made a political calculation that >attacks on minorities are popular? > >''It's because conservatives are very clever in framing the debate in black >and white terms,'' says Yenny Wahid, the daughter of Indonesia's former >president and moderate Islamic cleric Abdurrahman Wahid and a rare, >uncompromising voice for tolerance. ''If you condemn attacks on Ahmadiyah, >then you are not a good follower of the prophet Muhammad. So politicians are >afraid to speak out because they don't want to appear unIslamic.'' > >Wahid says a steady influx of money from the Middle East that funds mosques >and schools has had an impact. The new conservative clerics are not only >cashed up, they are passionate, noisy and activist. > >When Yudhoyono speaks about maintaining harmony, he sometimes talks, quite >perversely, about the need to placate militants, rather than defending >diversity. > >Wahid counters that ''this policy of appeasement won't work. In the short >term, it may create a measure of stability that the government needs. But it >gives [conservatives] too much power. The greater good is sacrificed,'' she >says. > >Tom Allard is Indonesia correspondent. > >Read more: >http://www.smh.com.au/world/struggle-for-a-voice-of-tolerance-20110909-1k1ve.html#ixzz1XXy8P5YN > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! 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