Democratization in Indonesia and the Growth of Post-Islamism Through Popular Culture Media

Muh. Bahruddin, Karman, Bambang Mudjiyanto

2022

Abstract

This paper examines post-Islamism in post-reform Indonesian cinema (1998). We focus on Muslim-figure representation in films as a medium of popular culture through which they represent themselves as friendly, tolerant, modern, and pious Muslims. We argue this phenomenon as the form of post-Islamism. Post-Islamists are different from Islamists. Muslim figures with post-Islamism do not express radicalism/conservatism and reject the system and values of democracy because of western culture. We argue that filmmakers want to show that the post-Islamism movement in Indonesian cinema is the way to represent the compatibility of Islam with modernity, tolerance to capitalistic/western values, and non-violent. Filmmakers present post-Islamism as part of democracy in the Indonesian political system. By adopting the post-Islamism concept by Asef Bayat, Iranian social theorist, we explain the growth of Islamic-genre films in the post-reform and argue that this phenomenon is a form of post-Islamism. We collected data through in-depth interviews with filmmakers of Islamic-genre cinema. We conclude: democratization in Indonesia provides an opportunity to externalize post-Islamism through popular culture. Post-Islamists use democracy to express their identity and religiosity as Muslims

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bahruddin M., Karman. and Mudjiyanto B. (2022). Democratization in Indonesia and the Growth of Post-Islamism Through Popular Culture Media. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social and Political Development - Volume 1: ICOSOP, ISBN 978-989-758-618-7, SciTePress, pages 29-34. DOI: 10.5220/0011509400003460

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icosop22,
author={Muh. Bahruddin and Karman and Bambang Mudjiyanto},
title={Democratization in Indonesia and the Growth of Post-Islamism Through Popular Culture Media},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social and Political Development - Volume 1: ICOSOP,},
year={2022},
pages={29-34},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011509400003460},
isbn={978-989-758-618-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Social and Political Development - Volume 1: ICOSOP,
TI - Democratization in Indonesia and the Growth of Post-Islamism Through Popular Culture Media
SN - 978-989-758-618-7
AU - Bahruddin M.
AU - Karman.
AU - Mudjiyanto B.
PY - 2022
SP - 29
EP - 34
DO - 10.5220/0011509400003460
PB - SciTePress