25 Years on, Vanguard Liberal Indonesian Muslim Activists are in Disarray

The Liberal Islam Network (JIL) in Indonesia is facing internal disarray and declining relevance 25 years after its founding. The movement struggles with ideological fragmentation and the broader conservative shift in Indonesian society.
Why it matters
The decline of liberal Islamic intellectual movements impacts the political and social discourse regarding civil liberties and religious conservatism in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation.
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The article provides an analytical overview of a social movement's decline using academic and sociological perspectives.
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