Paradise Lost? [Arabisasi di Indonesia]

[cikosenzki]

Has anyone else noticed the number of people walking around dressed as if they were in the Middle East? The number of Joe Blows dressed in attire that is definitely not the norm for Indonesia? Have we not noticed the “mission creep” of the Middle Eastern-oriented religious “scholars” who are fast becoming mainstream in the country?


Is a lifestyle of strong conservatism, which flourishes in the Middle East, the type of future Indonesia wants? (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

What has happened to Indonesia? The nation of 365 ethnic groups and the same number of languages, the nation with a sophisticated cultural heritage that has for centuries been a wondrous garden of paradise, nurtured and cared for by a host of cultural gardeners and caretakers. A country progressing at breakneck speed into... well, the past. And not just the immediate past, either.

All of a sudden, the people of Indonesia are being manipulated or coerced into the ancient Middle Eastern way of life.

It is a bit of a worry. The Sufis who established Islam in this country all those centuries ago understood that cultural adaptation was necessary and formed the unique basis for the largest and most tolerant Muslim-majority nation on the planet. Indonesia is a country with its own beautiful and graceful culture, with unique art, poetry, tales of heroes and heroines, flying magicians and scary ghosts. It is a nation of diversity and incredible sophistication that developed empires like the Sriwijaya, the Majapahit and many more. A culture that has written and carved history going back to the fourth century.

The sheer magnitude of the archipelago and the beauty of the islands is mind boggling. It is populated by people who have struggled to maintain it as best they could under difficult conditions. People who have, through major adversity and back-breaking poverty, still managed to come up with the concept of gotong-royong, where communities look after their members and their locales with little or no outside help.

The pressures of economic development and the tsunami of democracy has overwhelmed us. It has swept us away in a miasma of high-pressure financial demands. The population has almost doubled in 30 years, reducing the amount of land and resources available and increasing the burden of poverty.

The mega-companies and conglomerates established from the 1970s to 1990s have grown and swallowed up everything in sight in the name of economic development. Meanwhile, the economy remains controlled by just 2 percent of the population.

A new generation has been able to go overseas to study — something that was almost unheard of in the ’80s. Indonesia has suffered from a brain drain to a degree, but a huge number of educated people do return home and work hard to develop the country. However, a few — actually not just a few but a whole mass — attend Islamic universities in the Middle East and return home with vastly different ideas for their country. They neglect the work of the Sufis, the Walisongo, and the population of this wonderful land. They neglect the way communities have continued to exist in an environment of change — where the country has shifted from an agrarian society to one based on productivity and progress. They do not realize the people of Indonesia have aspirations of wealth and safety, and wish to live a peaceful life in tune with the paradise in which we live. They misunderstand their own people and history and defile centuries of culture and trade it in for a foreign ideal.

Imbued with the ideas about the “purity” of Islam, the Koran, hadith and Shariah law, they believe the religion of Islam can only be celebrated when one adheres entirely to these tenets. In return, they see the population of Indonesia, living as it has done for millennia, become angry and would destroy it all for the sake of so-called purity of the faith.

They have been doing this for many years – very quietly and very successfully. A mission to Middle Eastern-ize Indonesia, with or without consent. People are suddenly changing. We have traded the fear of repression and reprisals of the Suharto years for fear of repression and reprisals from the imams. We have become subservient to the will of those who would have us believe that they are the only people who know the true word of God.

This is despite the fact that there are many larger and more sophisticated organizations that praise and welcome the idea of a positive mix of the secular and theological — organizations that originate in the same lands our “educated” returnees come home from.

Conservative Islam is like a mouse nibbling at the corner of a rice sack. A mouse that has very quietly and very subtly grown and reproduced and infiltrated the houses of the population of this country, whether we like it or not. It is a mouse that has turned into a herd of elephants, with an insatiable appetite for control, total submission and expansion.

The normally passive Indonesian way of life is powerless to resist and we have drowned in a wave of invective and orthodoxy. The gentle and accommodating Indonesia, so used to being cared for and nurtured by community spirit, finds itself in the grip of highly trained and manipulative men that would destroy everything the country represents and has fought and died for. Lakes of blood, oceans of sweat and heavens of tears, all shed to achieve success and prominence in the global community. All about to be snatched away at the finishing line, condemning us to a life of pious slavery. A life where we cannot celebrate the spectacular achievements of this great nation.

Sadly the gardens are withering. The caretakers being swallowed up and digested by developments they do not understand. These changes are so pervasive they will eventually take all attention away from the garden until it withers away to nothing more than a distant memory in a dusty foreign museum.

We are a nation born of our history, trapped by the past and being robbed of our future.

http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/talkb...se-lost/440205

[cikosenzki]

hilaryvb[/URL]]globalized? Asian? this is not globalized. we are being dragged to the ancient world. Filled with Savages. We should be proud being Indonesian, with diverse culture. Remember Bhineka Tunggal Ika? Hopefully it will stay engraved under Pancasila.

Should we follow the Arabian culture, turning Indonesia into an Islamic Country, With no tolerance what-so-ever towards another religion or beliefs.

If we want to be an Arab-ish country, why dont you burn down all the forest, turning it into hot, sandy, deserts?

those who want Indonesia to be an Arab-ish country, you are all mad and crazy.

[Ronggolawe]

Paradise Lost my ***!
Head hunter activities in Borneo, canibalism in Papua, power-struggle
with cool-blood killing among brothers, is that paradise?

pure nusantara culture my ***!
hello? this is what Samuel Huntingtong call clash of Civilization.
There are disputes between Islam and Western here. You
critized the "midle-eastern-ize movement", yet you close
your eyes to the fact that Indonesians have blindly become the
object of "western-ize systematic plan".

by the way, it's not in english forum.

[Ronggolawe]

oh ya, Ronggolawe adalah salah satu korban pertama dari
budaya saling bunuh akibat sikap saling rebut kekuasaan
dimasa awal berdirinya Majapahit. Korbannya dari kalangan
kawulo sudah tidak terhitung banyaknya. inikah yang disebut
Surga yang hilang?

[danalingga]

@Ronggolawe: Jika sudah sebegitu nerakanya nusantara, kenapa mesti ditambah lagi dengan neraka arabisasi?

[Ronggolawe]

@Ronggolawe: Jika sudah sebegitu nerakanya nusantara, kenapa mesti ditambah lagi dengan neraka arabisasi?

gw ngga bilang itu neraka, itu bagian dari dinamika peradaban,
bahwa tidak ada peradaban yang tidak mendapatkan pengaruh
dari peradaban lain. Dan dengan saling pengaruh itulah manusia
mengalami kemajuan peradaban.

Jadi ngga usah phobi-phobi amat sama pengaruh asing, apalagi
sampai memberikan stigma buruk, pada pengaruh asing tertentu.

[cikosenzki]

Tujuan akhir kan negara islam indonesia
Liat karikaturnya


Selamat dunia dan akhirat

[tezar]

saya pikir yang ada malah cuma ketakutan akan Islam itu sendiri
justru sekarang belum/tidak berlaku ko syariat Islam
yang ada, surganya sudah hilang
yang ngambil ya big bossnya negara sekuler
coba lihat berapa banyak kekayaan negara ngalirnya ke negara-negara asing
bukan ke rakyat Indonesia

[cikosenzki]

Dikerjain barat yg sekuler dan pemerintah yang sekuler jauh lebih baik dibanding shariah islam nga jelas. Lahh yang d negara sekuler aja mereka garis kerasss sudah bisa begini

1.Suda terbukti di beberapa tempat anti kebudayaan (afganistan patung budha dibom, borobudur th 80 dibom),tidak bisa menerima perbedaan keyakinan(pembakaran gereja sudah ratusan jumlahnya), mengadakan gerakan mengacaukan negara demi tegaknya syarat islam baik NII , JAT, FUI.

Kalo ini berhasil bukan saja pemerintahan yg chaos tapi mundur beberapa generasi, anti kebudayaan , para barbar yg menguasai pemerintahan bisa kita bayangkan liputan dii TV grand ayotulah abubakar basyir dan anak emasnya rizieg teriak teriak, hancurkan AS, jihad k palestina bla bla !!

[tezar]

Lo, syariah Islam pun tujuannya demi kemanusiaan juga
Asal nggak disalahwewenangkan lho
Misalkan setahu saya dala Islam dilarang merusak bagunan beribadah umat lain

[ndugu]

*menunggu foto sby dengan tulisan "saya prihatin" *

[cikosenzki]

Kamu bicara aturan yg bagus2 kita liat situasi di lapangan aja , jangan liat aturan 2yg bagus.

Ingat ini indo! Mahluk yang pendidikanya kurang tinggi , diprovokasi, diceramahi dikit langsung ho oh(mangknaya nga heran debger ada yg masuk nii kw 9 atao pengantin bom)

Sekali mereka yg berkuasa indo habis!

Tinggal pilih mau indonesia diperkosa bangsa asing atao diperkosa adik, sepupu sendiri(kita artikan masih sebangsa)

[itsreza]

Lo, syariah Islam pun tujuannya demi kemanusiaan juga
Asal nggak disalahwewenangkan lho
Misalkan setahu saya dala Islam dilarang merusak bagunan beribadah umat lain

syariat: hukum berdasarkan quran dan hadis, cakupannya kehidupan secara menyeluruh, termasuk hubungan antar manusia.
IMHO, tujuan syariat untuk kebaikan, rahmatan lil alamin. Namun pelaksanaan syariat di negara yang memiliki dasar hukum sebaiknya untuk diri sendiri

Kamu bicara aturan yg bagus2 kita liat situasi di lapangan aja , jangan liat aturan 2yg bagus.
Ingat ini indo! Mahluk yang pendidikanya kurang tinggi , diprovokasi, diceramahi dikit langsung ho oh

IMHO, melihat perkembangan yang ada yang terjadi adalah arabisasi, mungkin mereka mengambil adalah langsung kata-kata tersebut dari kitab suci tanpa melihat tujuan utama, nilai maupun kondisi yang ada. Hal yang sebaiknya diambil adalah nilainya, karena dalam syariat ada Ijma, kesepakatan antar ulama dalam menetapkan suatu hal. Khusus di Indonesia, banyak sekali pengangguran, pendidikan masih relatif rendah, dan sekali pihak yang berkepentingan. Akibatnya banyak orang yang mengatasnamakan syariat untuk mencampuri orang lain, dan akhirnya melanggar hukum yang berlaku di Indonesia.

mencegah flame, bukannya sebaiknya topik ini masuk sini ya?

[ndugu]

ah, lebih mikirin ngurusin negara sendiri dulu gitu loh daripada mikirin ngikutin gaya hidup orang laen ato jihad buat negara laen (misalnya palestina)

lagipula.. "kekayaan yang ngalir ke negara asing", ngga relavan dengan mengarabisasi ato tidaknya negara indo.. ini lebih ke masalah kekorupan pemerintah, bukan mirip/tidaknya dengan timur tengah

[tezar]

nggak usah bicara arabisasi lah
contoh aja ambil kasus di aceh
sudah berlaku syariat Islam walau dalam bentuk perda
apa Indo habis?
apa Aceh merongrong Indonesia
malah perda syaraiah dalam tanda kutip yang mengembalikan gam ke pihak Indonesia

[cikosenzki]

Rakyatnya habis silahkan baca tinjauan PBB untuk indonesia mengenai aceh, penindasan kaum minoritas. Pemaksaan pemakaian jilbab. Dan pelarangan umat kristiani bla bla ada d laporan PBB tahun 2010

[tezar]

oh ya perlu dicatat saya nggak sepenuhnya setuju dengan pelaku-pelaku yang ada sekarang
tapi saya justru memimpikan saat seperti Umar bin Khataab membawakan sendiri makanan untuk rakyatnya yang miskin
Umar bin Abdul Aziz yang menanyakan kepada tamunya (bibinya) ketika bertamu, untuk kepetingan pribadi atau untuk kepentingan negara, dan dijawab untuk kepentingan pribadi, beliau mematikan lampu yang dibiayai oleh negara
Umar bin Khataab yanng berlari mengejar anak unta karena unta itu adala milik baitul mal/rakyat

kalau pemerintahan sekuler bisa mewujudkannya, apalah namanya, saya dukung deh

[keremus]

kawan, saya pindahkan ke forum agama saja, gimana ?
Karena pada akhirnya kalian bawa2 agama ok ?

[itsreza]

kawan, saya pindahkan ke forum agama saja, gimana ?
Karena pada akhirnya kalian bawa2 agama ok ?

terima kasih sudah dipindahkan,
diawal pun sudah membawa suatu agama, jadi disini lebih tepat

saya pamit dulu, silahkan dilanjut diskusinya,

[ndableg]

mau westernisasi kek, arabisasi kek, cuman menunjukkan bhw kita tidak punya jati diri.