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by foreign ideologies and a nuisance or when extremists
the West is propagating linked to the Afghan and
this as a tremendous threat, Arab countries blow up
symbolized by terrorism and nightclubs, hotels or restaurants
in Bali and Jakarta. The
intolerance. Indonesia is one former President of Indonesia,
of the most striking historical who is a progressive religion
examples of a systematic cleric, Abdurrahman Wahid,
destruction of progressive was also forced down by a
Religious values. number of elites said that:
In the 1950s and early I know who blew up
1960s, the United States, the Marriot Hotel in
Australia and the West in Jakarta. It was not an
general were increasingly attack by an Islamic
concerned about the anti- group; rather, carried
imperialist and internationalist out by secret Indonesian
jargons that were echoed intelligence services, to
by President Soekarno. They legitimize the budget
are also worried about the for their existence, and
growing popularity of the to please the West.
Indonesian Communist Party (Vltcheck, 2012)
(PKI); but they were much Based on this fact, it is
more worried about socialist clear that radical movement
ideologies and moderate, which in Indonesia is clearly
clearly shared communist ideals. linked with the west. This
Indonesian religion has systematic movement gradually
been reduced to a silent have grown and develop
majority. As such, religion into several organizations
will only make headlines in and parties.
the international media if a
white-robed group is deemed
