Grassroots Leaders Show The Way: Perbedaan antara revisi
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WHAT is it about the way Islam is taught and practised in Indonesia that over 500 women religious leaders could come together to issue ''fatwas'' declaring child marriage and sexual violence as haram? And to assert themselves as ulama with the authority and right to advance justice and equality as a common good for ALL? | WHAT is it about the way Islam is taught and practised in Indonesia that over 500 women religious leaders could come together to issue ''fatwas'' declaring child marriage and sexual violence as haram? And to assert themselves as ulama with the authority and right to advance justice and equality as a common good for ALL? | ||
And if that is not mind-boggling enough, this first national congress of women ulama (KUPI – Kongres Ulama Perempuan Indonesia) was supported by the Ministry of Religion and the State Islamic Institute of Cirebon. The Minister of Religion himself, Lukman Hakim Saefuddin, closed the event together with Gusti Kanjeng Ratu Hemas, a Member of the Regional Representative Council (second chamber of Parliament), and wife of the widely respected Sultan and Governor of Jogjakarta, both known as supporters of women’s rights. | And if that is not mind-boggling enough, this first national congress of women ulama (KUPI – Kongres [[Ulama Perempuan]] Indonesia) was supported by the Ministry of Religion and the State Islamic Institute of Cirebon. The Minister of Religion himself, Lukman Hakim Saefuddin, closed the event together with Gusti Kanjeng Ratu Hemas, a Member of the Regional Representative Council (second chamber of Parliament), and wife of the widely respected Sultan and Governor of Jogjakarta, both known as supporters of women’s rights. | ||
And to top it all, it was held in a ''pesantren'' (Islamic boarding school) in a village in Cirebon that was led by a woman, Nyai Masriyah Amva, who declared on stage that she was a feminist and a pluralist who embraced all of God’s creations in all their diversity – to the cheers of the crowd. The group of us from Malaysia and a few other international activists and academics were gobsmacked. We all had tears in our eyes at the closing event to see the compassion and justice of Islam upheld by these hundreds of grassroots women, most of whom don’t speak a word of English and who probably have not even been to Jakarta, let alone leave their country. | And to top it all, it was held in a ''pesantren'' (Islamic boarding school) in a village in Cirebon that was led by a woman, Nyai Masriyah Amva, who declared on stage that she was a feminist and a pluralist who embraced all of God’s creations in all their diversity – to the cheers of the crowd. The group of us from Malaysia and a few other international activists and academics were gobsmacked. We all had tears in our eyes at the closing event to see the compassion and justice of Islam upheld by these hundreds of grassroots women, most of whom don’t speak a word of English and who probably have not even been to Jakarta, let alone leave their country. | ||
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As the famous Kyai Hussein Mohammed, one the first ulama converts to the cause of women’s rights in Indonesia said, the gender training he underwent forced him to find a way to reconcile between his belief in a God that is just and the discrimination women suffered. | As the famous Kyai Hussein Mohammed, one the first ulama converts to the cause of women’s rights in Indonesia said, the gender training he underwent forced him to find a way to reconcile between his belief in a God that is just and the discrimination women suffered. | ||
Today, Kyai Hussein leads the Fahmina Institute for Religious Studies in Cirebon (besides his own ''pesantren''), producing the next generation of feminist male and female religious leaders. | Today, Kyai Hussein leads the [[Fahmina]] Institute for Religious Studies in Cirebon (besides his own ''pesantren''), producing the next generation of feminist male and female religious leaders. | ||
Thus what happened at Nyai Masriyah’s ''pesantren'' was the culmination of decades of reform in how Islam is taught in Indonesia and the hard work of women’s rights activists who introduced gender training into the ''pesantren'' and the network of state Islamic institutes and universities. | Thus what happened at Nyai Masriyah’s ''pesantren'' was the culmination of decades of reform in how Islam is taught in Indonesia and the hard work of women’s rights activists who introduced gender training into the ''pesantren'' and the network of state Islamic institutes and universities. | ||
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'''''(Sumber: | '''Penulis: Zainah Anwar''' (Sister in Islam Malaysia) | ||
''(Sumber: http://www.thestar.com.my/opinion/columnists/sharing-the-nation/2017/05/14/grassroots-leaders-show-the-way-they-are-no-westernised-feminists-but-they-see-themselves-as-equal-t/<nowiki/>)'' | |||
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