Page 295 - Pure Life 15

Promoting Islam in Cyberspace Based on Modern Islamic Thoughts of Syeikh Abduh /299

This paper is not aimed to explore about
Muhammadiyah modern activities according to
Abduh, but this paper will discus the moslem

majority in Indonesia itself that is actively behaved
as a modern people, eventhough in line with the
obligatories as being a moslem.
They are already combining Islamic faith with
Cyberspace, for example they are using Cyberspace
in their daily life, for formal education, or for social
media within friends. They had downloaded Al
Quran and Hadith application in Google Store,
reciting Quran in Youtube and also learning Arabic
1
online in pesantren.
The former of Indonesian Minister of Religion, Mr.
Prof. Munawir Syadzali ever said that “Indonesia is
not a secular country, nor religion-based country”.
This part is really urgent and critical to be
discussed, especially for milenial generations of
majority moslems in Indonesia, that are undeniably
and unforcedly to use Cyberspace tools. Not being a
secular, nor being a fundamentalist, means to be in the
middle of those two ideas and authors think the bias
could be happen.

1. Pesantren is Islamic boarding school. The late 4th
Indonesian President Mr. Abdurrahman Wahid, as well as the
leader of Nahdlatul Ulama, biggest Islamic organization in
Indonesia, qutoed that Pesantren is a sub-cultural portion in
Indonesian society, because Indonesian moslem people only
learning about Yellow Book of 4 (four) Islamic Great Imams in
pesantrens and the pesantren alumni, called santri, had
influenced Indonesian culture and social life.