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Explaining the 2016 Islamist Mobilisation in Indonesia

Religious Intolerance, Militant Groups and the Politics of Accommodation

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ID12349257
AuthorsMarcus Mietzner (0000-0002-8086-0830, Australian National University, corresponding author), Burhanuddin Muhtadi (0000-0002-6043-6856, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University)
Year2018
Volume42
Issue3
Pages479-497
Publication date2018-07-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1035-7823 • E-ISSN: 1467-8403
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10357823.2018.1473335
OpenAlexW2871845996
LanguageEN
Citations received99
References cited23

There has been an intense scholarly debate about what caused the unprecedented Islamist mass demonstrations in Indonesia in late 2016. Some scholars have argued that increasing intolerance and conservatism among the Muslim population are responsible, while others have disputed such notions, claiming that there is no evidence of widespread support for an Islamist agenda. In this article, we analyse a unique set of polling data to show that a) conservative attitudes among Indonesian Muslims were declining rather than increasing prior to the mobilisation, but that b) around a quarter of Indonesian Muslims do support an Islamist socio-political agenda. Importantly, we demonstrate that this core constituency of conservative Muslims has grown more educated, more affluent and better connected in the last decade or so, increasing its organisational capacity. We argue that this capacity was mobilised at a time when conservative Muslims felt excluded from the current polity, following the end of a decade of accommodation

Accommodation · Conservatism · Development economics · Economics · Geography · Indonesian · Islam · Militant · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Polity · Population · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Demography · Gender Studies · Indonesian Election Politics and Participation · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Law · Psychology

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