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Imagining an Islamic State in Indonesia: From Darul Islam TO JEMAAH ISLAMIYAH Sometime in September 1962, S. M. Kartosoewirjo,* 1 the leader of a once formidable insurgency that had proclaimed an Islamic State of Indonesia (Negara Islam Indonesia, Nil), was executed by a firing squad of the Indonesian Republic. This act has been recorded as the beginning of the end of the Islamic State and its so-called Darul Islam (Abode of Islam) rebellion.2 Forty years later, however, a young man called Iqbal wrote the following before he blew himself up along with hundreds of others at the Sari Club in Bali on October 12, 2002: Today I say: that I am a child of DI/NII [Darul Islam/Negara Islam Indonesia] who is ready to sacrifice myself for Islam. Remember, o mujahideen of Malingping,3 how our imam, S. M. Kartosuwirjo, built and upheld and proclaimed the independence of the Islamic State of Indonesia with the blood and lives of martyrs, not by relaxing and fooling around the way we do today. If you are serious about seeing the glory of the buried Islamic State of Indonesia rise My thanks to Greg Fealy, Sidney Jones, Kit Collier, Ken Ward, Solahudin, Ed Aspinall, Robert Cribb, Ahmad Muhajir, Martin van Bruinessen, David Jenkins, Marcus Mietzner, Jajat Burhanudin, and Sita Dewi 11 have spelled Indonesian names in accordance with the preference of the individual concerned except for direct quotations from published sources, in which the original has been preserved. 2 See, for example, B. J. Boland, The Struggle of Islam in Modern Indonesia (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1971), p.
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