Unsurprisingly, attaining the endorsement of leadership figures within Indonesia’s two largest Islamic civil society organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah, became key to the success of both ...
Habibie combined faith, piety with science, technology: Muhammadiyah
He was a moralist and rationalist who combined science and technology which is relevant for the Indonesian people in the modern era Jakarta (ANTARA) - Former President B.J. Habibie was able to combine ...
Students stage protest, demand House hold off on passing Criminal Code bill
The students, who came from various universities including the University of Indonesia (UI), the Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Dr. Hamka Muhammadiyah University and the University of ...
Orator : Thailand We do Miss the man from Thailand, The Students of two Universities Surrounded the Office of Riau's Governor
Friday 20 September 2019, the combined students of the University of Riau (UNRI) and the University of Muhammadiyah Riau (UMRI) still survived voicing their aspirations at the Riau Governor's Office.
Wahhabism runs into the sand
Two major Islamic organisations can be taken as representatives of this mainstream: the more rural, heavily enculturated "Nahdlatul Ulama" (NU) with 40 million members and the urban, "modernist" ...
Women and Islam in Indonesia
One of the most striking is the existence of two huge, mass-based Islamic organisations, Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Islam (NU), whose origins go back to the early twentieth century. The differences ...
Syamsuddin rejects KPK Law revision plan over debilitating impact
The ex-chairman of Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second-largest Muslim organization, affirmed his support to the revision if it were to strengthen the agency's tasks and functions. "Certainly, I support ...
Eyes on big picture at Malay community dialogue
The Muhammadiyah Islamic College student found the segment on sustainability particularly pertinent. "We know that we have got to do something about it, and it's got us thinking about how we can save ...
Modern Islamic Political Thought Was Primarily a Response to the Intellectual Challenge Posed By the Rising Western Civilization
The school of Deoband, Berelvism, Salafism, Al-Azher, and Muhammadiyah in the Sunni denomination and the Hawza of Qom and Najaf in the Shiite denomination represent the traditionalist strand. In ...