Negotiating Piety and Radicalism: A Study Among Muslim Youth in Pekanbaru, Indonesia

Muslim youth in Pekanbaru currently interacts with different culture and tradition. They actively consume modern values spread by global media from different countries. In Muslim societies like Pekanbaru, the rise of modernity and globalization brings multiple impacts on them. One of them is that it supports the growth of piety or religiosity both in the private and public sphere among young Muslims. However, some people may indicate that this piety is a potential or same as radicalism. Radicalism and piety are two complicated terms among young Muslims in this town. As a result, this raises a question on how these Muslim youth understand and practice radicalism and piety. This article argued that, as the impact of globalization and modernity, piety was blended with capitalism and other non-Islamic ideologies. As a result, this article found that, first, Muslim youth in Pekanbaru were negotiating their piety and radicalism with non-Islamic ideologies such as modernity, capitalism, and so forth. Secondly, they could not be labeled into a single term like pious or radical. This is because they were still in the process of negotiation between piety and radicalism

Dakwah Zakat: Menyebarkan Kewajiban Berzakat di Kalangan Masyarakat Petani di Kepulauan Meranti

Zakat (alms) is an important discourse in a Muslim society so that it is often associated with the economic empowerment of the Ummah (Muslim community at large). This article aims to explain how the efforts made by National Alms Agency of Kepulauan Meranti to use modern instrument and management for disseminating the obligation to pay alms among Muslim people in Kepulauan Meranti. Using observation and interview to get data, BAZNAS has tried intensively to strengthen and improve the society's consciousness to pay Zakat as piety symbol. This article shows that semi-modern Zakat institution like BAZNAS Kepulauan Meranti conducts complicated negotiation related to religious awareness and problem of modernity. This article also shows how to spread the obligation to pay alms as a never-ending project because the values of religiosity often require elements of modernity. The empty space needed by institutions like BAZNAS is to strengthen the use of modern instruments and modern management implementation in these institutions

The Tradition Of Tarekat Qadiriyah Wa Naqsabandiyah In Pekanbaru, Riau

This article describes the tradition practiced by the followers of Qadiriyah wa Naqsabandiyah in Pekanbaru, Riau. By employing a qualitative approach, this article finds that that the tradition of the Tarekat Qadiriyah wa Naqsabandiyah in Pekanbaru, Riau emerged from the tradition (custom) performed at Pondok Pesantren Nurul Huda al-Islami. Through the pesantren, the tarekat tradition is spread gradually in the practice of education and socialization. From the tradition of pesantren education, this tarekat philosophy is then socialized to the surrounding community's environmental traditions. Philosophically, this study also concluded that tarekat is a doctrine that is close to Islamic education. Pesantren as the center of tarekat development becomes 'icon' development of Islamic education based on Sufi character. In the contemporary context, the values of Sufi education are increasingly crucial, especially in responding to the patterns and lifestyles of consumptive ones arising from modernization, capitalism, and globalizatio

The “Teras Dakwah” (Dakwah Terrace) Movement Program: the Philosophy and Dakwah Activism Charity-Based in YOGYAKARTA

Dakwah in Indonesia has been growing nowadays. It is seen from the presence of preachers (da'i) and dakwah institutions and organizations in Indonesia. This article contributed to the discourse of dakwah and charity in Indonesia, especially in the social institution of Teras Dakwah in Yogyakarta. In this context, the discourse about dakwah and charity has not been much studied by previous scholars. Most studies on dakwah focus on the figure, institution, oral and written dakwah, social media, and others. The main research proposed was why and how the Teras Dakwah has been involved in charity practices in both local and regional domains. The research data were obtained based on the nethnographic study. This research showed that the involvement of the Teras Dakwah in dakwah activism-based charity was influenced by the uncertain discourse of social guarantee from the government in which in turns the Teras Dakwah was involved in providing the religious social service both local areas in Yogyakarta and regional areas outside Yogyakarta

Nilai-nilai Islam dalam Drama Korea Perspektif Anak Muda Muslim Pekanbaru

This article describes one of the effects of globalization on young Muslims in Indonesia. This article argues that the emergence of globalization has provided opportunities for young Muslims to take 'Islamic' values from the non-Arab world, not solely from the center of Islam (Muslim Arab countries). The purpose of this study is to find out how Pekanbaru Muslim Youth take Islamic values contained in Korean drama. This research uses ethnographic methods, by identifying informants namely young Muslim Muslims who are pious from Islamic educational backgrounds and like Korean television dramas. They have a good understanding of Islam so that in daily life they used to do the obligatory prayers five times a day and Fasting is obligatory in the holy month of Ramadan. Even some of them do the teachings of Islam that are sunnah such as reading the Qur'an, sunnah prayers in congregation in the mosque and others. This article found that Korean television dramas encourage Muslim young people to negotiate Islamic values displayed in Korean television dramas. The results of this study reveal some Islamic values such as aspects of hard work, and never give up are often portrayed in television dramas