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Indonesia Council Open Conference 2025
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Majlis Taklim and Moderate Islam: Indonesian Muslim Perspectives and Attitudes

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Religion

Submission Description

Indonesian Muslims have various activities for the communities including disseminating moderate Islam. However, at the same time, they have faced challenges that include intolerance, hate speech, and radical thought spread in society. In this sense, majlis taklim, one of the existing Muslim assemblies, was expected to significantly minimize them. Thus, this paper discusses this issue. This article was written based on research conducted in 2020 and 2021. This study used a mixed method both quantitative and qualitative approaches. Data was gathered through five techniques; (a) an online survey using Google Forms and 950 people participated in this survey, (b) interviews, (c) observations, (d) focus group discussions, and (e) a documentary study. The findings show that the majority of respondents disagree with the da’wah using violence and denigrating other religious groups (98 %). However, there is still majlis taklim that sometimes demeans other religious groups, and the content of da’wah was not respecting others.  Furthermore, during their activities, various majlis taklim have several efforts to disseminate friendly Islam and counter-radical teachings. For instance, they will select moderate preachers to teach Islam, and they have activities involving people from different religious backgrounds so that they will have good interaction and minimize suspicion among them. 

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Individual Paper Presenters

Ms Zakiyah Zakiyah - National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia