The role of Muhammadiyah in the consolidation of democracy in Indonesia /
This study explores the understanding of Muhammadiyah (MU) members and their experiences with respect to the issues of democracy and the strategy to build democracy in Indonesia. Using qualitative methods, the study explores the role of Muhammadiyah in the consolidation of democracy in Indonesia. Mu...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English |
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Gombak, Selangor :
Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia,
2010
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| Online Access: | http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/7139 |
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| Summary: | This study explores the understanding of Muhammadiyah (MU) members and their experiences with respect to the issues of democracy and the strategy to build democracy in Indonesia. Using qualitative methods, the study explores the role of Muhammadiyah in the consolidation of democracy in Indonesia. Muhammadiyah is organized along national, provincial, district, branch and sub-branch levels, and has approximately 50 million members who mainly live in the urban areas. Muhammadiyah is actively involved in societal development through schooling, health, and religious guidance (dakwah). Its organized members throughout the Indonesian society have the potential to restructure the socio-cultural and political spheres of the Indonesian life. Muhammadiyah has a lot of experience in organizing the people of Indonesia as a way to promote their potential and to assist them in solving problems. This study finds that Muhammadiyah is involved in carrying out programmes for democratization and is committed to developing and sustaining democracy in various spheres of life through its own programmes. This study also finds that it has been promoting values congruent to democratic principles such as tolerance and mutual respect through training, workshops, and other programmes for its members. Muhammadiyah's commitment is to preserve civic virtues like openmindedness,tolerance, pluralism, and respect for the dignity of individuals. Its members argue that Islam has tenets, such as Shurā and 'adl (justice), congruent with democratic ideas, but their responses to the Western conceptions of democracy vary. Accomodationists of Muhammadiyah organization state that Islamic tenets are congruent with Western ideas of democracy, while rejectionists express that Islam has accepted happiness as the goal of democracy, sovereignty, and freedom which is different from the Western concepts of democracy. Moreover, Muhammadiyah subscribes to democratic values, such as individual freedom, respect for differences or plurality, tolerance, open-mindedness, and criticism; and sees individual sovereignty, accepting other religious groups' beliefs, and gender equality as problematic for Muslims in Indonesia. Adopting these values in certain ways, they argue, can be seen to contravene core Islamic beliefs. |
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| Item Description: | Abstracts in English and Arabic. "A dissertation submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master Human Sciences (Political Science)"--On t.p. |
| Physical Description: | xiv, 100 leaves ; 30 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-90). |