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Pembantaian Kejawen Oleh Muslim

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Animism
Nov 4th, 2006, in IM Posts, by Patung

The government is considering making animism an official religion while some conservative Muslim clerics are unhappy about the prospect.

The Director General of the Demography section of the Department of Internal Affairs, A Rasyid Saleh, says the government will shortly complete the formation of a new law on demographic administration and it is planned that those who adhere to traditional, "ethnic", or non-orthodox, forms of religion, "animism" for want of a better term, will receive formal recognition. Since the coming to power of Suharto in 1965-66 the state has only recognised five religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Then under the presidency of Gus Dur Confucianism was re-admitted to the list of official religions, a decision which only came into effect this year. Now animism, almost.

A number of Muslim clerics in the East Java town of Jember are put on record by Tempo as being fiercely opposed to the plan however. [1] Two senior clerics, Abdul Muchid Muzadi and Washil Syarbini, claim that the recognition of animism will cause conflict and division in society and that it is better that animism be simply regarded as a part of traditional culture but not as a religion. Washil says:

On what basis is animism going to be considered a religion? If it's just for the purposes of national identity cards then don't do it, religious life could become messed up.
(Kalau sekarang pemerintah mau mengakui sebagai agama dasarnya apa? Jangan hanya sekedar untuk kepentingan KTP saja, kehidupan umat beragama jadi kacau.)

Muchid meanwhile saw the dark forces of liberalism at work. It was enough that animists were not persecuted and were free to practise and teach their faith, he said, formal recognition of them was not necessary.

Both men advised the government to give some serious re-thought to the matter. Basing the decision on questions of human rights and anti-discrimination was not adequate, the reality of the situation on the ground, that is the potential for social conflict, had to be taken into account. They employed a slippery slope argument, saying that if one form of animism were allowed then the followers of all the other types of non-formal religions would be clamouring for recognition as well.

The recently deceased Clifford Geertz claimed that on Java, especially Central Java, about 30% of the population practised some form of non-orthodox religion. These people, abangan, were nominally Muslim, but their religion was based on a mixture of animism, mysticism, Javanese Hinduism and Javanese Buddhism, as well as Islam. However since the rise of Suharto such people have been forced to acknowledge themselves as Muslim, officially, and in any case, generally, the trend is towards Islamicisation. Those most likely to benefit from any change in the law will be explicitly non-Islamic spiritual movements such as the kebatinan kejawen, and, especially off Java, there are many peoples, such as the Dayaks of Kalimantan, who have resisted both Islamicisation and Christianisation.



March 11th 2007. Sulistyo Tirtokusumo, from the Department of Culture and Tourism said in Surabaya on the 11th that the government will shortly issue regulations allowing followers of informal religions to have their marriages recognised by the state.

Djoko Sumono, the head of an animist association, was happy to hear the news and claimed that presently only two civil registrars in the entire country recognise animist marriages, they being at Kebumen and Purworejo, both in Central Java. He said animists faced the same difficulties as followers of Konghucu, or Confucianism, did up until recently. In order to get their marriages registered animists had to claim membership of a recognised religion, like Islam, but without actually living according to that religion's precepts.

Djoko claimed there were about 250 animist associations in the country with combined membership of nine million people. [2]



January 11th 2008. In Magelang district, Central Java, home to a large number of animists, the local government now allows marriages to be carried out and officially recorded according to local beliefs. Those carrying out such marriages must be licensed by the Animism section of the department of religion. [3]

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