Indonesia's Islamic Revolution
Cambridge University Press, 12/5/2019
EAN 9781108487870, ISBN10: 1108487874
Hardcover, 452 pages, 23.5 x 15.9 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
The history of the Indonesian Revolution has been dominated by depictions of grassroots fighters and elite politicians who thought of it as a nationalistic or class-based war. In this major new study, Kevin W. Fogg rethinks the Indonesian Revolution (1945–49) as an Islamic struggle, in which pious Muslims, who made up almost half the population, fought and organized in religious ways. Muslims fighting on the ground were convinced by their leaders' proclamations that they were fighting for a holy cause. In the political sphere, however, national leaders failed to write Islam into Indonesia's founding documents - but did create revolutionary precedents that continue to impact the country to this day. This study of a war of decolonization in the world's most populous Muslim country points to the ways in which Islam has functioned as a revolutionary ideology in the modern era.
Introduction
1. Islam in Indonesia before the Revolution
1.1 Islam in Indonesia at the turn of the twentieth century
1.2 Divisions within the Muslim community
1.3 Trends in the early twentieth century
1.4 Japanese occupation
Part I. Islam in Indonesia's War of Independence
2. Islamic calls to action
2.1 The reasons for the revolutionary struggle
2.2 Early Fatwas
2.3 A flood of Fatwas
2.4 A manifesto for the Islamic revolution
M. Arsjad Thalib Lubis's Toentoenan Perang Sabil
2.5 Attacks on Islam as calls for action
2.6 Conclusion
3. Ulama, Islamic organizations, and Islamic militias
3.1 Ulama as revolutionary leaders
3.2 The mobilization of Islamic organizations
3.3 Sabilillah and Hizbullah
3.4 Islamic militias in battle
3.5 Conclusion
4. Magic, amulets and trances
4.1 Tradition of Islamic magic
4.2 Prayers and incantations
4.3 Amulets and spells
4.4 Martial arts and trances
4.5 Consequences of Islamic magic
fearlessness and high casualties
4.6 Conclusions
5. Social revolution
5.1 Meaning of social revolution
5.2 Out with the old
5.3 In with the new (and Islamic)
5.4 Social revolution in Aceh
the Cumbok War
5.5 Madiun affair as competing social revolutions
5.6 Staying power of social revolution
5.7 Conclusion
6. Darul Islam
6.1 Sequence of events leading Kartosuwirjo into rebellion
6.2 The Darul Islam movement within the Islamic spectrum
6.3 Exceptional factor
Kartosuwirjo
6.4 Conclusion
Part II. Islam in Indonesia's Political Revolution
7. The Jakarta Charter controversy
7.1 Creation of the investigatory board
7.2 The creation of Pancasila and the Jakarta Charter
7.3 Removal of the Jakarta charter from the constitution
7.4 Implications of the elimination of the Jakarta Charter
8. The creation of Masjumi
8.1 The evolving state in 1945
8.2 Founding an Islamic political party
Masjumi
8.3 Extraordinary members
8.4 Masjumi leadership in 1945
8.5 Conclusions
9. The ministry of religion
9.1 Colonial precedents
9.2 Establishing a ministry
9.3 The ministry of religion in action
9.4 Conclusions
importance of the ministry
10. Rise of Islamic socialists
10.1 Background of the Islamic socialists
10.2 Rise in government and the party
10.3 Islamic socialists and the Masjumi platform
10.4 Conclusions
11. Regional Islamic parties
11.1 Masjumi's geographic expansion
11.2 Persatuan Tarbiyah Islamiyah (Perti)
11.3 Regional political Islam facing federalism
11.4 Conclusion
12. The exit of PSII and the first fracture of Masjumi
12.1 Standard narrative of PSII's exit
central power play
12.2 PSII's own narrative
regional initiative
12.3 Weighing personal versus regional interests in PSII's rebirth
12.4 Conclusions
the implications of PSII's exit for Islamic politics
13. Islamic diplomacy
13.1 Grassroots Islamic diplomacy
13.2 Success with the Arab League
13.3 Diplomatic milestones
13.4 Conclusions
Conclusion.