Kyrchanoff Maksym

Chinese Muslims as a Segment of Nusantara Islam in Modern Indonesia

ЮГО-ВОСТОЧНАЯ АЗИЯ: АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ПРОБЛЕМЫ РАЗВИТИЯ, 2022, №4(57), 98-109

 
Annotation: The article analyzes the features of development and the main vectors of transformation of the Chinese part of the modern Indonesian Ummah. It is shown that historically a unique community of ethnic Chinese and Indonesians of Chinese origin, who belong to the Muslim Ummah, emerged in Indonesia. The author analyzes the ideological and or-ganizational mutations and changes in the Muslim Chinese com¬munity, represented by the "Indonesian Chinese Islamic Brotherhood" ("Per-saudaraan Islam Tionghoa Indonesia"), the largest organization in Indo-nesia that unites Muslim Chinese and their descendants. Particular at-tention is paid to the current ideological preferences of Chinese Muslims in Indonesia. Their place in the Ummah and their subordinate, auxiliary role in the political system which distinguishes them from Indonesian Muslim organizations are also shown in the article. The article shows how and why activities of Chinese Muslims in Indonesia are limited mainly to preaching and spreading Islam among their compatriots, which became the result of a long period of discrimination, as well as the tendency of a part of Indonesian society to accept anti-Chinese phobias, extending them to Muslims, who formally, like the majority Indonesians, belongs to the Muslim Ummah.

Keywords: Indonesia, Islam, Islam Nusantara, Chinese, anti-Chinese phobias, Chinese Muslims in Indonesia, Indonesian Chinese Islamic Brotherhood