th Annual International AICIS 19 CONFERENCE 2019 ON ISLAMIC STUDIES DIGITAL ISLAM, EDUCATION, AND YOUTH Changing Landscape of Indonesian Islam The 19th Annual International Conference on Islamic Studies Programme Mercure Jakarta Batavia 1-4 October 2019 1 JAKARTA th Annual International AICIS 19 CONFERENCE 2019 ON ISLAMIC STUDIES DIGITAL ISLAM, EDUCATION, AND YOUTH Changing Landscape of Indonesian Islam The advancement of communication and information and computerized aids to Qur'anic recital and technologies, especially the Internet and social media, has Arabic learning, are available in the marketplace, become one of the most crucial factors in informing the recent side-by-side with various more conventional ones, dynamics and manifestations of Muslim politics all over the such as trendy, colourful jilbab, Muslim T-shirts, world. Competition over religious symbols and interpretations perfumed oils, and veiled Barbie dolls. as well as institutions that control them, which constitutes the Paradoxically, rising curve of expanded digital main feature of Muslim politics, has often taken place via the media does not necessary give rise to a civil Internet and social media and closely tied to the ways in which pluralism that accepts and legitimates diversities. In information, ideas and discourses are shared, communicated, some cases the digital media helps militant Islamic and produced. The growth of new modes of interactive groups carry out violent mobilization for the communication has allowed Muslims to increasingly interest of their own. The eruption of Islamic participate in global Islamic discourses. Although the digital militancy tide in the post-Suharto Indonesia, for media does not necessarily call the so-called public sphere into instance, confirms such an ambivalent role of the being, it contributes significantly to reshaping a sense and digital media. Shortly after the fall of the regime in structure of public that is already available. An embryo of May 1998 a number of militant Muslim groups with “public Islam” emerges and poses a challenge to the secularist names like Laskar Pembela Islam (the Defenders of definition of the boundaries and content of the public sphere. It Islam's Force), Laskar Jihad (Holy War's Force) and provides spaces for encounters on different levels and informs Laskar Mujahidin Indonesia (Indonesian Holy individual and collective strategies of cultural dialogue. Warriors' Force) came to the forefront to demand In fact, the transparency engendered by the digital media the comprehensive application of the shari'a increases the scope, intensity, and forms of involvement in a (Islamic law). Both implicitly and explicitly they multiplicity of overlapping public spheres. New religious actors questioned the format of modern nation-state and who bear no religious authority in a traditional sense have expressed their concern with the establishment of emerged. They may not be as literate as those of the past, but an Islamic state. they are certainly more able to manipulate symbols and rituals Youth have often been the main actors behind and to represent the mass society of today. Utilizing the these maneuvers as they are impatient to bring interactive digital media they create a synthesis through a sort about social change and frequently the first to take of cultural hybrid practices, in such a way that they package up innovations. This is the case not only in Islam and offer it for mass consumption. A new sense of piety Indonesia; in the democracy movements of the so- has developed among Indonesian Muslims and this has called Arab spring young people were at the reduced religious beliefs, symbols, and values into free- forefront of the action. In fact, youth are the main floating signifiers to be consumed like anything else. As such, it consumers of conservative Islamist discourse takes them from their original contexts and throws them into a spread through a variety of communication cultural marketplace where they can be embraced in a shallow channels, including print media and the internet. fashion but not necessarily put into practice. New Islamist ideology in turn shapes youth's narrative of communication technology accelerates this process through confrontation with the Other: the West is perceived the production and appropriation of “religious” goods. to be the main enemy of Islam, seeking to Now a variety of “Islamic products”, including Qur'anic CDs, undermine it and subjugate the umma (the entire soap opera DVDs, inspirational plaques and bumper stickers, Muslim community) in diverse ways, not only calligraphic watchers, three-dimensional models of devotional through warfare but also through a war of ideas practices, posters and jigsaw puzzles depicting the mosques in (ghazw al-fikr) and cultural, economic, social and Mecca and Medina, greeting cards, board games, and political invasion. computer software, including Qur'an and hadith database, 2 W WELCOME TO AICIS 2019 elcome Assalamu’alaikum Wr. Wb. Welcome to AICIS2019. Holding big events such as AICIS is not an easy task. It needs a lot of preparation starting from academic to technical implementation involving various resources. At least the committee has started works for no more than six months with an array of dynamics. As a result, many obstacles and challenges have been dealt with thoroughly. We hope, AICIS in Jakarta for second time would Dr. Mamat S. Burhanuddin, M.Ag. Head of Sub Directorate of Academic be running well. Development On behalf of the committee, we would like to welcome you all Directorate of Islamic Higher Education participants of the19th AICIS in Jakarta and hope you all can enjoy it during this conference. I would like to thanks the Director General of Islamic education, Prof. Dr. phil. Kamaruddin Amin, MA and the Director of Islamic Higher Education, Prof. Dr. Arskal Salim GP, M.Ag who have given us full trusts and supports as the leading sector and organizer for the19th AICIS . The last but not least, we hope to the all participants of the19th AICIS can really take advantage of the conference which gives the real contributions of Indonesian Islam and Islamic studies to the world civilization. Prof. Noorhaidi Hasan, M.A., M. Phil., Ph.D. Wassalamu’alaikum Wr.Wb Steering Committee Conference Programmes 3 Welcome W elcome Prof. Dr. Arskal Salim GP , M.Ag. Director of Islamic Higher Education I am very delighted to welcome you all to the 19th Annual International Conference on Islamic Studies (AICIS) 2019 in the capital city of Jakarta, Indonesia. This year, we are bringing up a theme of “Digital Islam, Education and Youth: Changing Landscape of Indonesian Islam” as a response to the current dynamics of Islam in this millennial era. This theme aims at looking more closely on how the relations between Islam in this region and that of the global world, especially on the shifting discourses from Islam as a social fact to the newly emerging Islamic digital landscape. It is indeed an emerging situation and a robust area for research. Some compelling sub-themes are going to be presented in AICIS 2019, among others are: Islam, Youth and Social Media, Religious Authority and Fatwa in the Digital Age, Islamic Literatures of Millennial Generation and Hijrah, Representation and Identity. Please do explore our conference website for further details of presentation sub-themes. We invite you to share your insights, study results, or literature studies on these topics by sending your papers for presentation. It is a great pleasure that the 18th AICIS held in Palu of Central Sulawesi had been a great success attended by presenters and participants from more than forty nationalities including those from North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. This year, with a more accessible venue in the capital city, I do hope that we could follow this success by attracting more presenters and participants of various nations and fields of study. Please do extend our AICIS invitation to your colleagues, in country and abroad. In this cyber-global and interconnected world, we do hope that AICIS 2019 could serve as a strategic venue for academicians and practitioners whose interest is Islamic studies to get interconnected with other academicians and other fields of study. I do hope that more collaborative and interdisciplinary studies will be initiated from this conference. I also hope that the papers presented at the AICIS 2019 provide research findings and recommendations that are both directly and indirectly beneficial for public needs, especially policy makers and practitioners in the Islamic world. Last but not least, I wish you have a wonderful conference and meetup at the metropolitan city of Jakarta. 4 Conference Programmes R Remark emark Prof. Dr. Phil. Kamarudin Amin, M.A. Director General of Islamic Education The Directorate General of Islamic Education has initiated a number of academic programs to strengthen the academic and scholarly quality on Islamic studies through the Directorate of Islamic Higher Education (DIKTIS). It is expected that Islamic Higher Education Institutions (PTKI) are able to prepare Muslim scholars who have knowledge, integrity, professionalism, reputation therefore able to promote the development of Islamic civilization through Islamic scholarship. Graduate programs in Islamic universities have played par excellence in the field of Islamic Studies in Indonesia. Some academic activities have also been developed in preparing the graduate scholars to meet international quality standards, including collaborative research activities with universities abroad. The Annual International Conference on Islamic Studies (AICIS) is also intended to support the internationalization of both Indonesian Islamic higher education institutions and Indonesian Muslim scholars in many areas of scholarship. Since its first launching in the year of 2000, AICIS has received great attention and participation from scholars whose interests are Islamic Studies, including those from Indonesia, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) country members, as well as from many other countries in the world. In addition, the forum has become the barometer for the development of Islamic Studies in Indonesia and ASEAN.