4 Comments on “Critiques of Moderate Indonesia”

1. Treespotter says:
   May 17th, 2006 at 2:30 pm

   why is it student greeting a visiting friendly nation leader a bad sign for Moslem? How does “the recent visit by Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad reveal the essential weakness of the leadership of Indonesia, its failure to take bold steps, its lack of innovation under President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’? I don’t really understand that.
   what exactly are you proposing Indonesian to do with him instead?
   Educated Muslims don’t necessarily share those views, those that he holds anyway.
   what does a tennis match in Israel have to do with moderate Moslem in Indonesia?
   The Asia Times is a also inaccurate, there’s no creeping Islamization in the country, Indonesia already 88% Moslem population. You can’t really Islamize Islam can you?

2. Tree Grower says:
   May 19th, 2006 at 7:17 am

   Treespotter,

   Santri Muslims, conservatives and hardliners have been trying to Islamicize Indonesia for centuries. In a country where Muslim parents give their children names like Sri (Javanese rice goddess), Darmawan (from Dharma = way of the buddha), and Bima (from the Mahabharata), and celebrate slametan, it ain’t exactly pure untainted Islam. Not to mention “Muslims” like “Haji” Mohammad Suharto, who openly practiced kejawen, meditating in caves and carrying around krises.

   What they’re worried about are things like the decree from the MUI against pluralism, liberalism and secularism and not Islamicization, but Saudi-Arabianization like telling Javanese and Balinese woman to not show their shoulders (breasts in the Balinese case), something they’ve been doing for centuries.

   How many of the 88 % Muslim are KTP Muslims….?

   Gituloh.

3. Masindi says:
   May 25th, 2006 at 1:36 am

   This is what happens when Indonesia’s lawmakers are uneducated narrow minded individuals who are mostly reading al-Quran like a technical manual.

   With the youths losing respect of the government and senior politicians, they have chosen to uphold the technical manual, instead (in their eyes, the al-Quran seems more stable, full of integrity than the rotten government).

4. Karlira Kanakahuko says:
   November 20th, 2006 at 1:27 pm

   This is further sprerad of being the narrow-mindedness among Indonesians, especially uneducated conservative Muslim Indonesians. Indonesia is the shame, because they imports devils from Middle East to Islamize Indonesia.

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