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An annual review of significant developments and trends in the region. Though the emphasis is on ASEAN countries, Developments in the broader Asia-Pacific region are not ignored. Readable and easily understood analyses are offered of major political, Economic, Social, And strategic developments within Southeast Asia. The volume contains twenty articles dealing with such major themes as international conflict and co-operation, Political stability, And economic growth and development.
As the forces of globalisation and modernisation buffet Islam and other world religions, Indonesia's 200 million Muslims are expressing their faith in ever more complex ways. This book examines some of the ways in which Islam is expressed in contemporary Indonesian life and politics. Editors from Australian National University.
Building on prior RAND research analyzing the motives, drivers, and capabilities of the principal extremist groups operating in the Philippines, southern Thailand, and Indonesia, this study examined the historical roots of militancy in these countries, the development and perpetuation of extremist ideological frameworks, and national and international government response efforts.
Indonesia's 1998 reformation movement spawned numerous organizations aimed at either establishing an Islamic state or applying Islamic law. This book focuses on one such movement, Front Pembela Islam (FPI). The study presents the biography of Habib Muhammad Rizieq Syihab, one of FPI's founding fathers and its current head, and discusses the group's creation, activities, and ideology. Finally, it analyzes FPI's organizational bases, recruitment practices, and training methods, including the use of religious teachings to justify the deliberate destruction of entertainment venues where gambling, prostitution, and drinking occur--activities which are seen as corrupting according to Islamic teaching.
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This is a book that deals with the high science of Ihsan. This is one of the four principles of Islam, from which the rest of the 18 sciences emanate. Ihsan, now known as Tasawwuf is the states of the heart and soul at the time of right thought, right belief and right action. Without Ihsan, the aforementioned bears no fruit.
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Menikah adalah keinginan semua orang, karena dengan pernikahan yang sebelumnya haram menjadi halal, yang tadinya maksiat menjadi ibadah, yang tadinya tidak kenal menjadi akrab, yang tadinya seranjang sendiri akhirnya akan berdua. Akhirnya pernikahan menjadi sangat indah didengar dan ingin segera ditunaikan. Karena ‘saking’ inginnya cepat-cepat, kadang-kadang antara yang seharusnya belum boleh dikerjakan dan sudah dibolehkan menjadi samar-samar. Apalagi kalau bicara orientasi pernikahan, pasti semua orang menginginkan keluarganya sakinah, sa’idah, salimah, mawaddah dan penuh dengan rahmat. Dan tanda-tanda itu terlihat manakala biduk rumah tangganya berjalan diantara iman dan ketaqwaan, bisa menjadi bagian dari dari entitas dakwah di masyarakat, dan muara akhirnya kelak terselamatkan dari panasnya api neraka dan bisa berkumpul di surga bersama orang-orang yang dicintanya.
Life of Muhạmmad ibn ʻAbd al-Wahhāb, 1703 or 4-1792, Muslim religious reformer and founder of the Wahhabi movement.
The International People’s Tribunal addressed the many forms of violence during the period of the massacres of 1965–1966 in Indonesia. It was held in The Hague, The Netherlands, in November 2015, to commemorate fifty years since the killings began. The Tribunal, as a people’s court, holds no jurisdiction and was an attempt to achieve symbolic justice for the crimes of 1965. This book offers new and previously unpublished insights into the types of crimes committed in the 1965 genocide and how these crimes were prosecuted at the International People’s Tribunal for 1965. Divided thematically, each chapter analyses a different crime – enslavement, sexual violence, torture – perpetra...