Alirans and the Fall of the Old Order
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7296719 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald Hindley (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1970 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Pages | 23-23 |
| Publication date | 1970-04-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Indonesia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7289 • E-ISSN: 2164-8654 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3350621 |
| OpenAlex | W2320288213 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
The Indonesian nationalist struggle produced neither a single nor a dominant political party.Rather, before the declaration of independence in August 1945, during the physical revolution against the Dutch which terminated in December 1949, and in the subsequent years, the nationalist movement has been fragmented into a diversity of political groupings.Even today, after many small parties have disappeared, there remain ten legally active parties; an eleventh, the PKI (Partai Komunis Indonesia), is striving to put together an underground apparatus from the ruins of 1965.As each party is the center of a net work of mass organizations, the peasants, youth, women, students and workers are also organizationally fragmented. The multiplicity of political parties is rooted in the division ofIndonesian society into several distinct and selfconscious socio-cultural groupings, or alirans ,* 1 2 whose distribu tion has changed little since 1945.The broad outlines of the aliran pattern become apparent through an examination of two fundamental cleavages that cut across society: one religious, the other between holders of traditional and modernist world views.Although approximately 90 per cent of Indonesia's 110 million people are classified as Moslem, Islamization was ex perienced with varying degrees of intensity.As a result of this and not of recent secularization, only some 40 to 45 per cent of the population are devout Moslems in the political sense that they express themselves through and give their loyalty to specifically Moslem organizations.In Java, these santris
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| Citations per year | 0.09 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1982 - 2012 (31) |
| Highly cited | No |