Book contents
- Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution
- Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Indonesian Names
- Map
- Introduction
- 1 Islam in Indonesia before the Revolution
- Part I Islam in Indonesia’s War of Independence
- Part II Islam in Indonesia’s Political Revolution
- 7 The Jakarta Charter Controversy
- 8 The Creation of Masjumi
- 9 The Ministry of Religion
- 10 Rise of Islamic Socialists
- 11 Regional Islamic Parties
- 12 The Exit of PSII and the First Fracture of Masjumi
- 13 Islamic Diplomacy
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Oral History Sources
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
10 - Rise of Islamic Socialists
from Part II - Islam in Indonesia’s Political Revolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 November 2019
- Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution
- Indonesia’s Islamic Revolution
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Indonesian Names
- Map
- Introduction
- 1 Islam in Indonesia before the Revolution
- Part I Islam in Indonesia’s War of Independence
- Part II Islam in Indonesia’s Political Revolution
- 7 The Jakarta Charter Controversy
- 8 The Creation of Masjumi
- 9 The Ministry of Religion
- 10 Rise of Islamic Socialists
- 11 Regional Islamic Parties
- 12 The Exit of PSII and the First Fracture of Masjumi
- 13 Islamic Diplomacy
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Oral History Sources
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The most prominent leader of Islamic politics after the war was Mohammad Natsir, who became the first prime minister of united, postrevolutionary Indonesia in August 1950. And yet, as the 1951 book Who’s Who stated in his profile, “Before the war not many people knew who he was.… Moh. Natsir was not someone who stood out at the forefront of things; not someone who drew one’s attention.”1 Although he was the head of a party by 1949 and head of government in 1950, he had neither been in organizational leadership nor even in the parliament at the moment of proclamation in 1945. How was it, then, that Natsir and several other young leaders like him – Western educated, and with a particular ideology of governance – rose so quickly to the top of Islamic politics and government in the short span of the revolution?
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- Indonesia's Islamic Revolution , pp. 170 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019