Indonesian 1998 democratic movement is lead by Amien Rais, Muhammadiyah Chairmant, second biggest Islamic organization in Indonesia. He then become the Chairmant of MPR, the highest Consultative assembly in Indonesia (higher than parliament during that time) where the assembly made many constitutional changes to make Indonesia become more democratic, the changes that can be seen like the limitation of President term into 2 times and Direct Presidential Election. Other reforms made in parliament that resulted in bringing Armed Force into professional force (stay away from Politics etc)
Muhammadiyah (
Arabic: محمدية, followers of
Muhammad); also known as the
Muhammadiyah Society (
Indonesian:
Persyarikatan Muhammadiyah) is a major
Islamic non-governmental organization in
Indonesia.
[2] The organization was founded in 1912 by
Ahmad Dahlan in the city of
Yogyakarta as a
reformist socioreligious movement, advocating
ijtihad - individual interpretation of
Qur'an and
Sunnah, as opposed to
Taqlid - conformity to the traditional interpretations propounded by the
ulama.
[3] It played an important role in the expansion of
Salafism in
Indonesia.
[4] Since its establishment, Muhammadiyah has adopted a reformist platform mixing religious and secular education,
[5] primarily as a way to promote the upward mobility of
Muslims toward a 'modern' community and to purify Indonesian Islam of local syncretic practices.
[5] It continues to support local culture and promote religious tolerance in Indonesia, while a few of its higher education institutions are attended mostly by non-Muslims, especially in
East Nusa Tenggara and
Papua provinces. The group also runs a large chain of charity hospitals,
[2] and operated 128 universities as of the late 1990s.
[6]
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In Parliament reform, another Islamist leader, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, respected lawyer, become very important
Yusril
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