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Besides, this paper will relate those thoughts of Abduh
with the condition of Indonesian moslems nowadays,
based on current statistics and surveys, to value how much
is Indonesian moslems think about the modern islamic
political issues in the digital or Internet time. This paper is
hoped to spread ideas that Islam is a good religion that can
maintain local wisdom, eventhough at the same time,
moslem people have to do jihad to defend their tauhid.
Besides, this paper is also hoped to be a new perspective
to the concept of local wisdom in the mind of western
philosophy based on UN SDGs Agenda to preserve local
wisdom, so that in the UN General Assembly, the
honorable delegations could think about Islamic values
within their policies about local wisdom in the digital or
Internet time.

Key Words: Modern Islamic Thoughts, Promoting Islam,
Cyberspace, Muhammad Abduh, Indonesian Perspective

Introduction
Abduh and majority moslems in Indonesia are
connected with the same morality and values in Islam.
While Abduh is popular of his controversial and
modernity fatwa for Islamic world, majority moslems
in Indonesia are still trapped in the middle of choice
of secularity and fundamentalism.
Nonetheless, Abduh is part of Indonesian way of
thinking of being a moslem because Abduh is
influencing one of biggest islamic community in
Indonesia, named Muhammadiyah, that is reffered of
its name from Abduh’s first name.