Abstract (Summary)
Nahdlatul Ulama is Indonesia's, and the world's, largest Muslim organization, with approximately 35 million members. Long active as both a political and religious organization, in 1984 it withdrew from the formal political sphere in a move called " Kembali ke Khittah 1926 ", that allowed it room under the repressive Suharto regime to develop a nascent civil society movement. Towards the end of the New Order, and during the " reformasi " period, this movement became more critical towards the state and at the same time gained momentum internally. As a result, in many circles NU became associated with civil society. One element of the discourse produced by this movement was an opposition to "Islamist" politics--a stance that was deeply embedded in the historical modernist-traditionalist conflict coloring intra-Islamic relations in Indonesia for the past century. In 1999, Abdurrahman Wahid, revered NU leader, became president of Indonesia in a move that significantly complicated the position of NU's civil society movement, which had gradually established for itself a "watchdog" role towards the state. This dissertation examines the emergence of this civil society discourse in the historical context of the " Kembali ke Khittah 1926 " movement, and it explores the response of the pro-civil society activists of NU to political developments under Wahid's presidency--in particular analyzing the role of the modernist-traditionalist conflict in shaping not only understandings of "civil society" but also important movements within Islam in Indonesia more generally.
| Advisor: | Lev, Daniel S. |
| School: | University of Washington |
| School Location: | United States -- Washington |
| Keyword(s): | Islam, Civil society, Indonesia, Nahdlatul Ulama");'>Nahdlatul Ulama |
| Source: | DAI-A 63/11, p. 4069, May 2003 |
| Source type: | Dissertation |
| Subjects: | Political science, Religion |
| Publication Number: | AAT 3072067 |
| ISBN: | 9780493919027 |
| Document URL: | http://proquest |
| ProQuest document ID: | 765050551 |
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