Print Islam

Mass Media and Ideological Rivalries among Indonesian Muslims

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7296646
AutoresRobert W Hefner (0000-0002-9438-699X, autor de correspondencia)
Año1997
Volumen64
Páginas77-77
Fecha de publicación1997-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIndonesia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0019-7289 • E-ISSN: 2164-8654
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3351436
OpenAlexW2323208507
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas25

On December 30, 1996, a few dozen protesters gathered to demonstrate outside the offices of Indonesia's leading Islamic newspaper, Republika, in the southern suburbs of the capital city of Jakarta.1 The protesters were from a coalition of some eighteen Muslim organizations, all with spiritual ties to the Dewan Dakwah Islamiyah Indonesia (Indonesian Counsel for Islamic Predication, or DDII), one of Indonesia's leading organizations for reformist Islam. On this occasion there was little of the tension characteristic of the group's earlier protests against the Muslim daily. Some months earlier, on April 17, 1995, the protest had become so heated that newspaper staff feared the demonstrators might ransack the building (a charge that the DDII leaders dismiss as ludicrous).2 This time the demonstrators were careful and orderly, behaving as if they were playing parts in a scripted affair. They carried banners and chanted slogans, and presented Republika officials with letters of protest detailing their objections to the Muslim daily's coverage. They also carried copies of the articles they viewed as having offended the Muslim community, and photocopies of letters sent earlier in the month by leading reformist personalities (most, again, with cordial ties to the DDII) expressing similar outrage at Republika's reporting

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