Chapter 5 in the Name of Islam: the Kiai and People’S Resistance Against Government Plans to ‘Modernise’ Madura
Cover Page The handle http://hdl.handle.net/1887/21539 holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation. Author: Pribadi, Yanwar Title: Islam and politics in Madura : ulama and other local leaders in search of influence (1990-2010) Issue Date: 2013-08-28 Chapter 5 In the Name of Islam: the Kiai and People’s Resistance against Government Plans to ‘Modernise’ Madura Introduction This chapter discusses the government’s plans to ‘modernise’ Madura during the New Order administration and how segments of society responded to these plans. Specifically, it is concerned with two conflicts between the government (at central, provincial, and regency levels) and the powerful Islamic elites together with the people. The first is the Nipah dam incident and the second is the rejection of the industrialisasi scheme (to introduce industrialisation and to create industrial estates in Madura) by the kiai of Bassra (Badan Silaturahmi Ulama Pesantren Madura - The Association of Friendship of Madurese Pesantren Ulama).73 Among the questions posed in this chapter are: what is the origin and nature of the Nipah dam incident and the Suramadu Bridge affair? What were the government’s efforts in implementing plans to ‘modernise’ Madura? How did the kiai and the people respond to the government’s approaches? How were Islamic symbols used in order to convey messages of rejection? Under the Suharto administration, the lack of state74 73 The industrialisasi scheme was included in a plan to build the Suramadu Bridge that would connect the islands of Java and Madura and be the country’s longest bridge. I will refer to this henceforth as the Suramadu Bridge affair.
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