- Title
- Islamist violence in Indonesia: bringing the state back in
- Creator
- Snider, Joshua
- Relation
- Nebula Vol. 7, Issue 4, p. 123-133
- Relation
- http://www.nobleworld.biz/nebulajmsarchives/nebula74.html
- Publisher
- Samar Habib
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2010
- Description
- The current state of Islamist militancy in Indonesia has yielded a somewhat conflicting set of outcomes, both in relation to the future of Jihadist activism and how best to respond to it. On the one hand Southeast East (sic Indo) has not emerged as the "next front" of the global war on terror as Gersham (2002) predicted. And in fact we are not seeing the manifestation of the much feared slippery slope phenomenon where exposure to radical Islam will lead to increasingly large numbers of people taking up the idiom of violent extremism. And more interestingly we are not seeing militancy establish itself as the moral vanguard of a creeping cultural Islamisation of the state - i.e. the Pakistan phenomena. At the same time however the problem of acts of violence justified by and in defense of various strands of Islamist ideology has not abated. Alas, it seems then that Indonesia like a variety of other nation-states are confronted with an ongoing problem of a particular type of relapsing and remitting religiously justified "light insurgency" enacted against both apparatuses of the state and the perceived symbols of western modernity.
- Subject
- Indonesia; Islam; Islamist militancy; Jihadist activism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/931071
- Identifier
- uon:10982
- Identifier
- ISSN:1449-7751
- Language
- eng
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