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Yusli Effendi

Brawijaya University, International Relations, Faculty Member

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Lecturer at International Relations Department and researcher at Center for Pesantren Studies and Community Development, Brawijaya University, Indonesia. Graduated from Airlangga University, Indonesia and University of Exeter, UK
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Democracy Assistance to Global South: A Case Study of Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Freedom Agenda in Indonesia

Global South Review (GSR), 2023

This paper aims to investigate and analyze the democracy promotion carried out by Konrad-Adanauer... more This paper aims to investigate and analyze the democracy promotion carried out by Konrad-Adanauer Stiftung (KAS) in Indonesia. Our findings on the case show that the hegemony of the North over the South is also perpetuated through political and economic assistance. Through the German political foundation of KAS, Germany seeks to foster a Western “better democracy” in Indonesia through several programs in collaboration with local actors. These “Freedom Agenda ‘’ include training for civil apparatus and legal drafting training for national legislation. The Freedom Agenda carried out by KAS in Indonesia is associated with Germany’s pursuit of democracy promotion policy. This study utilizes Neo-Gramscian Approach by Coxian Critical Theory (CCT) to investigate the role of KAS in maintaining the hegemonic order of Western Democracy in Indonesia through Cox’s historical structure. By using library research, this study seeks to explain the reciprocal relationship between Cox’s social forces in hegemony structure of Western democracy.

Keywords: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung; democracy promotion; hegemony; social forces

Analisis Wacana Free West Papua Campaign pada Operasi Militer Indonesia dalam Konflik Nduga: Sebuah Tinjauan Kritis

Transformasi Global, 2020

Mainstream narratives on Indonesia's military operation in West Papua describe it to help the... more Mainstream narratives on Indonesia's military operation in West Papua describe it to help the conflicting region achieve peace and prosperity. This hegemonic and widely held public opinion is more often used to justify the behavior of the Indonesian Government in West Papua. This research aims to offer an alternative perspective on the matter by looking at the narrative promoted and written by Free West Papua Campaign (FWPC) on their news reports about the Nduga Conflict in 2018-2019 from their website: freewestpapua.org. Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis examines the discourse created from the news coverage within the three-dimensional analysis, namely the textual, the discourse practices, and sociocultural dimensions. Results show that FWPC depicts Indonesia's military as exploiters of the indigenous Papuans. At the same time, FWPC also tries to build a sense of belonging to gain support from the international society and online activists.

Diplomasi Humanitarian Islam dan Pengungsi

Media Indonesia, 2023

Artikel opini ini mendiskusikan interseksi diplomasi, humanitarianisme, dan filantrofi Islam dala... more

Merebut Sekolah Turki: Represi Transnasional Rezim Islamis dan Pembersihan Sekolah Gülen di Indonesia

Islamic Insights Journal

Extremism Trails in Santri Cities: Discourses, Networks, and Early Detection

Conference: Proceedings of the First Brawijaya International Conference on Social and Political Sciences, BSPACE, 26-28 November, 2019, Malang, East Java, Indonesia, May 12, 2020

This article aimed to describe emerging Islamic extremism in santri cities, which contradicted th... more This article aimed to describe emerging Islamic extremism in santri cities, which contradicted their image as moderate regions. Employing observation, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussion, this qualitative research tried to understand discourses on extremism and intolerance, actors and their networks, and early detection in youth. The findings of this study indicated that even regions perceived as having moderate religious culture were not immune to the spread of extremist ideology and acts of intolerance. Three discourses; "others", "thaghut", and "the legitimate use of violence", were produced to build intolerant narratives in the public sphere, namely hatred towards Christians, Shia Muslims and minorities, the incompatibility of Pancasila and democracy with Islam, the adoption of Sharia law, and the legitimate use of violence for ordering good and prohibiting evil (amar ma'ruf nahi munkar). Their network was activated through out-of-town people who infiltrated moderate mass organizations and influenced pedagogic local figures. Using conventional and new media such as social media to spread their ideas to young people and women, these radical groups used "Alqamah house" as a camouflage of their movement safe house.

Keywords: Extremism, Radicalism, Discourse, Santri Cities, Political Islam

Jihad Iran Melawan Corona

Pars Today, 2020

Meski di awal Maret sempat terekam sebagai negara di luar China dengan kasus Covid-19 paling bany... more Meski di awal Maret sempat terekam sebagai negara di luar China dengan kasus Covid-19 paling banyak setelah Italia, Iran kini konsisten masuk dalam beragam laporan sebagai salah satu negara dengan tingkat kesembuhan tertinggi. Menkes Iran, Saeed Namaki bahkan berani mengklaim dalam laman Iran Front Page edisi 25 April bahwa negaranya telah membukukan rekor dunia dalam hal besarnya jumlah kesembuhan pasien baru Corona. Pernyataan itu nyatanya berbasis fakta. Worldometers pada 4 Mei mencatat, negeri para mullah itu memiliki 97.424 positif Covid-19 dan 78.422 sembuh (80,2%). Resep kesembuhan dari Corona bisa kita gali dari negara-negara seperti China, Korsel, atau Jerman. Namun, Iran menawarkan formula berbeda dalam penanggulangan wabah: jihad.

Merebut Sekolah Turki: Represi Transnasional Rezim Islamis dan Pembersihan Sekolah Gülen di Indonesia

Islamic Insights Journal, 2019

This paper seeks to address Erdoğan's transnational repression towards Turkish citizens and Gülen... more This paper seeks to address Erdoğan's transnational repression towards Turkish citizens and Gülen-linked schools in Indonesia which are denounced as part of Fethullahçı Terör Örgütü/Fethullah Gülen Terror Organization (FETÖ)'s most vital source of funding. It is argued that the AKP-ruled government effectively transferred political hostilities from authoritarian Turkey to democratic Indonesia in micro-level targeting Turkish Gülenist teachers and other Hizmet Movement adherents. In exercising extraterritorial coercive acts, the regime relied on institutional outposts such as the embassy, consulate, and mission. These proxy regime institutions played an agressive role in the repression of the Turkish diaspora, including active surveillance, nationality deprivation, and intimidation of the dissent's family members. They also have tried to shut down, take control, or take over nine Indonesia's Gülen-linked educational institutions to The Maarif Foundation (TMF). Nevertheless, in this meso-level (the Gülen Movement as a transnational network), The Turkish Government have failed to purge Gülen-linked schools whose their cooperation with PASIAD-which is associated with FETO-was terminated in 2015. Employing qualitative approach and data combined with content analysis, this study contributes in explaining Erdoğan regime's coercive power across border which meets its middle power counterpart. One of the more significant findings to emerge from this study is that extraterritorial repressive acts were hindered by the national law and sovereignty of political opponents' host country.

SANTRICITY INDEX: AN "ISLAM NUSANTARA" ISLAMICITY INDEX

by Yusli Effendi and Siti Kholifah

This research-based paper aims to develop a working concept of “Kota Santri” that sheds the light... more This research-based paper aims to develop a working concept of “Kota Santri” that sheds the light to formulation of Santri City Index. Our proposed index will not only contested western inspired Rehman-Askari Global Islamicity Index, but also Maarif Institute Indeks Kota Islami (IKI) of Indonesia which ignored local values in its indicators. Three fundamental concepts of walayah, insaniyyah, and ma’ruf proposed as foundational scaffolding that deduced from primary, secondary, and tertier legal resources in Islam. In first phase, the forementioned three fundamental principles serve as guiding principles to six legal values which will be break down into variables and indicators of the proposed index in our research. The next phase of research elaborate four areas simultaneously; 1) fundamental concepts (meta-framework, archetypal model, and ‘urf) namely; walayah-insaniyya-ma’ruf, 2) six legal values: freedom, justice, balanced relations of God-human-environment, equality, social werlfare, acommodation of local values, 3) law considerants or seven goals of syariah: preservation of faith, soul, mind, offspring, wealth, environment, and honor, and 4) contemporarization and indigenization of Islam’s ethical messages that includes human development. Employing postcolonial approach and cross-disciplinary studies with qualitative data, this study is an effort of transforming into action and indigenization of Islamic norms.

Keywords: Index of Kota Santri, maqasid syariah, postcolonialism, indigenization

KULDESAK RADIKALISME

Tulisan ini menawarkan pendefinisian radikalisme dan respon kampus terhadap temuan Badan Nasional... more

ISLAMOFOBIA KELAS MENENGAH

Tulisan ini mendiskusikan menguatnya gerakan dan partai ultranasionalis di Eropa. Menggunakan per... more

JOKOWI DAN NASIONALISME DIGITAL

Times Indonesia (18/09/2017), 2017

Di Barat, setiap yang asing merupakan obyek sasaran ketakutan sekaligus kebencian. Di Indonesia, ... more Di Barat, setiap yang asing merupakan obyek sasaran ketakutan sekaligus kebencian. Di Indonesia, yang berbeda bahkan tak hanya yang asing, tapi juga aseng—pelabelan spesifik yang merujuk pada etnisitas non-pribumi, Cina, anti-Islam, dan rakus dalam hal ekonomi. Bagi Johan Galtung, stereotyping melalui pelabelan peyoratif, akan beranjak ke tindakan diskriminasi dan berujung pada aksi kekerasan langsung. Pelabelan sosial hanyalah sumbu peledak berjarak dua langkah menuju ledakan aksi kekerasan secara fisik.
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Penguatan identitas nasional yang dilakukan negara secara terbatas dan tradisional, seperti lewat pendidikan, kini tak cukup menarik minat kaum warganet (netizen) atau digital natives yang menjadi anak kandung era digital. Di sinilah ruang antara dan kosong yang ditinggalkan negara. Pernyataan Jokowi di atas menunjukkan secara jelas dunia digital adalah ruang antara, ruang kosong, yang bahkan negarapun tak mampu menguasainya. Ruang kosong di antara wilayah dalam/luar (inside/outside) yang disebut ruang liminal itu menunggu dihuni oleh kekuatan lain jika negara tak lagi mampu mengisinya. Saat identitas nasional sebagai sumber pegangan pemaknaan sosial tak lagi disosialisasikan dan diperkuat negara, maka arena ambang batas negara/bangsa dengan dunia luar ini akan diisi oleh nilai-nilai lain.

GARIS BATAS NASIONALISME DAN POPULISME ISLAM

Times Indonesia (18/09/2017), 2017

Diskursus " Saya Pancasila ", misalnya, merupakan taktik memilah siapa yang dianggap nasionalis d... more Diskursus " Saya Pancasila ", misalnya, merupakan taktik memilah siapa yang dianggap nasionalis dan yang bukan. Kategorisasi ini pada akhirnya mendefinsikan mereka yang anti-Ahok sebagai tidak nasionalis beserta segenap label yang dilekatkan: anti kebhinekaan, sumbu pendek, cingkrang pikir, anti NKRI, anti pemerintah, hingga anti Indonesia. Sebaliknya, diskursus “Bela Islam/Ulama” juga merupakan taktik memilah siapa yang pro-Ahok dan pro-Jokowi beserta segenap label yang disematkan: pro penista(an) Alqur’an dan ulama’, antek asing/aseng, hingga komunis atau anti Islam sampai tak layak disholatkan jenazahnya saat meninggal. Kedua belah pihak secara sadar saling melakukan kekerasan simbolik satu sama lain namun tak sadar mengidap amnesia temporer bahwa ada anak bangsa lainnya yang tidak terlibat dalam hingar bingar pertarungan keduanya: mereka yang berdiam menahan diri menghindari debat kusir sembari meyakini keindonesiaan tanpa harus mempertentangkannya dengan keislaman

TANTANGAN NASIONALISME KITA

Times Indonesia (18/09/2017), 2017

Globalisasi secara pasti mengubah wajah nasionalisme. Karenanya, narasi politik Indonesia sejak p... more Globalisasi secara pasti mengubah wajah nasionalisme. Karenanya, narasi politik Indonesia sejak pilpres 2014 dan berlanjut pada pilgub Jakarta 2017 menggaungkan kegamangan akan kebhinekaan dan kemandirian ekonomi. Di belahan bumi Barat, menariknya, kondisinya tak jauh berbeda. Brexit di Inggris Raya dan terpilihnya Trump di Amerika juga menjadi pertanda tantangan globalisasi pada nasionalisme bisa menawarkan akhir cerita yang menyentak.

ROBOHNYA KOTA ISLAMI KAMI

Tulisan ini mendiskusikan definisi kota islami yang digagas oleh orientalis dan malah menjadi ruj... more Tulisan ini mendiskusikan definisi kota islami yang digagas oleh orientalis dan malah menjadi rujukan para perancang tata kota di dunia Islam untuk membanung kotanya. Makkah dan Madinah menjadi contoh bagaimana rejim Saudi merobohkan peradaban Islam dan kota islami atas nama modernisasi kota serta paham keagamaan rejim yang didukung ulama kerajaan untuk menghancurkan situs historis yang dianggap potensial sebagai tempat kemusyrikan

KOTA ISLAMI, KOTA LOKAL, DAN GLOBALISASI

Tulisan ini menjelaskan bahwa kota telah menjadi arena pertarungan agenda global dan lokal. Denga... more

MENCARI KOTA SANTRI

Tulisan ini berupaya mengkritik pengertian tradisional kota santri dan menawarkan redefinisi untu... more

Demitologisasi Hubungan Indonesia - Malaysia

This paper argues for broader emphasis on demystifying myths of kinship that narrate Indonesia – ... more This paper argues for broader emphasis on demystifying myths of kinship that narrate Indonesia – Malaysia relations and employed as a shelter to camouflage latent conflict between them. Despite the fact that they share a lot of things in common, the author notes that the two nations hold contending lenses in perceiving each other which are often manifested when the neighbouring countries are in tense situation. Misunderstanding between them usually can be traced back from simplified perception urged by situation that often be conditioned by past historical experiences, precepts based on the nations’ scripture or written records, and mostly by mentalité, shared narratives, each nation holds. The paper will delve the nations’ history to examine both continuity and discontinuity of discourse such as serumpun identity and Greater Indonesia/Malay (Indonesia/Melayu Raya). This transgression will help to understand the pattern of friction and discord in their relationship that brings to uneasy neighbourhood in tackling contemporary issues from territorial disputes to cultural legacy claim frenzy. The author concludes by offering implications for unreconciled Malay identity to rivalries of these jiran countries in regional institutions.

Keywords: myths, kinship identity, mentalité

Perumusan Indeks Kota Santri - Prosiding Seminar Nasional Islam Nusantara 2016

by Yusli Effendi and HB Habibi Subandi

This research aims to develop a working concept of “Kota Santri” that sheds the light to formulat... more This research aims to develop a working concept of “Kota Santri” that sheds the light to formulation of Santri City Index. Three fundamental concepts of walayah, insaniyyah, and ma’ruf proposed as foundational scaffolding that deduced from primary, secondary, and tertier legal resources in Islam. The mentioned three fundamental principles serve as guiding principles to six legal values which will be broken down into variables and indicators of the proposed index in further research. Employing postcolonial approach and cross-disciplinary studies with qualitative data, this study is an effort of transforming into action and indigenization of Islamic norms.

Keywords: Index of Kota Santri, postcolonialism, Islamic norms, indigenization

Melumpuhkan Ingatan Kebangsaan

Koran Sindo, Jul 25, 2014

Apapun hasil yang dirilis KPU pada 22 Juli menjadi peneguh bahwa pilpres kali ini adalah pilpres ... more Apapun hasil yang dirilis KPU pada 22 Juli menjadi peneguh bahwa pilpres kali ini adalah pilpres yang paling membuat bangsa kita terpolarisasi sejak era reformasi bergulir. Hari-hari di masa kampanye begitu menguras pikiran, hati, bahkan tenaga kita. Membelah, membuat kita berhadapan dalam dua kubu. Meski hasil resmi rekapitulasi suara belum dirilis resmi oleh KPU, kedua belah pihak telah saling mengklaim kemenangan. Bahkan tim sukses (timses) Prabowo-Hatta telah menyiapkan gugatan ke MK jika mereka dinyatakan kalah dan meminta pemungutan suara ulang. * Dimuat cetak di Koran Sindo Jatim, Jumat, 25 Juli 2014 † Pengajar Hubungan Internasional FISIP Universitas Brawijaya. Bukan anggota tim sukses capres manapun.

Desekuritisasi Agama dalam Pemilu

Koran Sindo, Apr 25, 2014

Pemilu legislatif (pileg) baru saja usai, namun pesan singkat berantai bernada kampanye tak henda... more Pemilu legislatif (pileg) baru saja usai, namun pesan singkat berantai bernada kampanye tak hendak berhenti. Kita malah hari-hari ini mendapati penggunaan isu agama untuk menyebarkan stigma buruk pada calon presiden yang diusung parpol tertentu lewat telepon di genggaman kita. Atas nama kepentingan politik, sentimen primordial dijadikan jualan yang justru mengancam harmoni dan keutuhan bangsa.

Democracy Assistance to Global South: A Case Study of Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung (KAS) Freedom Agenda in Indonesia

Global South Review (GSR), 2023

This paper aims to investigate and analyze the democracy promotion carried out by Konrad-Adanauer... more This paper aims to investigate and analyze the democracy promotion carried out by Konrad-Adanauer Stiftung (KAS) in Indonesia. Our findings on the case show that the hegemony of the North over the South is also perpetuated through political and economic assistance. Through the German political foundation of KAS, Germany seeks to foster a Western “better democracy” in Indonesia through several programs in collaboration with local actors. These “Freedom Agenda ‘’ include training for civil apparatus and legal drafting training for national legislation. The Freedom Agenda carried out by KAS in Indonesia is associated with Germany’s pursuit of democracy promotion policy. This study utilizes Neo-Gramscian Approach by Coxian Critical Theory (CCT) to investigate the role of KAS in maintaining the hegemonic order of Western Democracy in Indonesia through Cox’s historical structure. By using library research, this study seeks to explain the reciprocal relationship between Cox’s social forces in hegemony structure of Western democracy.

Keywords: Konrad Adenauer Stiftung; democracy promotion; hegemony; social forces

Analisis Wacana Free West Papua Campaign pada Operasi Militer Indonesia dalam Konflik Nduga: Sebuah Tinjauan Kritis

Transformasi Global, 2020

Mainstream narratives on Indonesia's military operation in West Papua describe it to help the... more Mainstream narratives on Indonesia's military operation in West Papua describe it to help the conflicting region achieve peace and prosperity. This hegemonic and widely held public opinion is more often used to justify the behavior of the Indonesian Government in West Papua. This research aims to offer an alternative perspective on the matter by looking at the narrative promoted and written by Free West Papua Campaign (FWPC) on their news reports about the Nduga Conflict in 2018-2019 from their website: freewestpapua.org. Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis examines the discourse created from the news coverage within the three-dimensional analysis, namely the textual, the discourse practices, and sociocultural dimensions. Results show that FWPC depicts Indonesia's military as exploiters of the indigenous Papuans. At the same time, FWPC also tries to build a sense of belonging to gain support from the international society and online activists.

Diplomasi Humanitarian Islam dan Pengungsi

Media Indonesia, 2023

Artikel opini ini mendiskusikan interseksi diplomasi, humanitarianisme, dan filantrofi Islam dala... more

Merebut Sekolah Turki: Represi Transnasional Rezim Islamis dan Pembersihan Sekolah Gülen di Indonesia

Islamic Insights Journal

Extremism Trails in Santri Cities: Discourses, Networks, and Early Detection

Conference: Proceedings of the First Brawijaya International Conference on Social and Political Sciences, BSPACE, 26-28 November, 2019, Malang, East Java, Indonesia, May 12, 2020

This article aimed to describe emerging Islamic extremism in santri cities, which contradicted th... more This article aimed to describe emerging Islamic extremism in santri cities, which contradicted their image as moderate regions. Employing observation, in-depth interviews, and focus group discussion, this qualitative research tried to understand discourses on extremism and intolerance, actors and their networks, and early detection in youth. The findings of this study indicated that even regions perceived as having moderate religious culture were not immune to the spread of extremist ideology and acts of intolerance. Three discourses; "others", "thaghut", and "the legitimate use of violence", were produced to build intolerant narratives in the public sphere, namely hatred towards Christians, Shia Muslims and minorities, the incompatibility of Pancasila and democracy with Islam, the adoption of Sharia law, and the legitimate use of violence for ordering good and prohibiting evil (amar ma'ruf nahi munkar). Their network was activated through out-of-town people who infiltrated moderate mass organizations and influenced pedagogic local figures. Using conventional and new media such as social media to spread their ideas to young people and women, these radical groups used "Alqamah house" as a camouflage of their movement safe house.

Keywords: Extremism, Radicalism, Discourse, Santri Cities, Political Islam

Jihad Iran Melawan Corona

Pars Today, 2020

Meski di awal Maret sempat terekam sebagai negara di luar China dengan kasus Covid-19 paling bany... more Meski di awal Maret sempat terekam sebagai negara di luar China dengan kasus Covid-19 paling banyak setelah Italia, Iran kini konsisten masuk dalam beragam laporan sebagai salah satu negara dengan tingkat kesembuhan tertinggi. Menkes Iran, Saeed Namaki bahkan berani mengklaim dalam laman Iran Front Page edisi 25 April bahwa negaranya telah membukukan rekor dunia dalam hal besarnya jumlah kesembuhan pasien baru Corona. Pernyataan itu nyatanya berbasis fakta. Worldometers pada 4 Mei mencatat, negeri para mullah itu memiliki 97.424 positif Covid-19 dan 78.422 sembuh (80,2%). Resep kesembuhan dari Corona bisa kita gali dari negara-negara seperti China, Korsel, atau Jerman. Namun, Iran menawarkan formula berbeda dalam penanggulangan wabah: jihad.

Merebut Sekolah Turki: Represi Transnasional Rezim Islamis dan Pembersihan Sekolah Gülen di Indonesia

Islamic Insights Journal, 2019

This paper seeks to address Erdoğan's transnational repression towards Turkish citizens and Gülen... more This paper seeks to address Erdoğan's transnational repression towards Turkish citizens and Gülen-linked schools in Indonesia which are denounced as part of Fethullahçı Terör Örgütü/Fethullah Gülen Terror Organization (FETÖ)'s most vital source of funding. It is argued that the AKP-ruled government effectively transferred political hostilities from authoritarian Turkey to democratic Indonesia in micro-level targeting Turkish Gülenist teachers and other Hizmet Movement adherents. In exercising extraterritorial coercive acts, the regime relied on institutional outposts such as the embassy, consulate, and mission. These proxy regime institutions played an agressive role in the repression of the Turkish diaspora, including active surveillance, nationality deprivation, and intimidation of the dissent's family members. They also have tried to shut down, take control, or take over nine Indonesia's Gülen-linked educational institutions to The Maarif Foundation (TMF). Nevertheless, in this meso-level (the Gülen Movement as a transnational network), The Turkish Government have failed to purge Gülen-linked schools whose their cooperation with PASIAD-which is associated with FETO-was terminated in 2015. Employing qualitative approach and data combined with content analysis, this study contributes in explaining Erdoğan regime's coercive power across border which meets its middle power counterpart. One of the more significant findings to emerge from this study is that extraterritorial repressive acts were hindered by the national law and sovereignty of political opponents' host country.

SANTRICITY INDEX: AN "ISLAM NUSANTARA" ISLAMICITY INDEX

by Yusli Effendi and Siti Kholifah

This research-based paper aims to develop a working concept of “Kota Santri” that sheds the light... more This research-based paper aims to develop a working concept of “Kota Santri” that sheds the light to formulation of Santri City Index. Our proposed index will not only contested western inspired Rehman-Askari Global Islamicity Index, but also Maarif Institute Indeks Kota Islami (IKI) of Indonesia which ignored local values in its indicators. Three fundamental concepts of walayah, insaniyyah, and ma’ruf proposed as foundational scaffolding that deduced from primary, secondary, and tertier legal resources in Islam. In first phase, the forementioned three fundamental principles serve as guiding principles to six legal values which will be break down into variables and indicators of the proposed index in our research. The next phase of research elaborate four areas simultaneously; 1) fundamental concepts (meta-framework, archetypal model, and ‘urf) namely; walayah-insaniyya-ma’ruf, 2) six legal values: freedom, justice, balanced relations of God-human-environment, equality, social werlfare, acommodation of local values, 3) law considerants or seven goals of syariah: preservation of faith, soul, mind, offspring, wealth, environment, and honor, and 4) contemporarization and indigenization of Islam’s ethical messages that includes human development. Employing postcolonial approach and cross-disciplinary studies with qualitative data, this study is an effort of transforming into action and indigenization of Islamic norms.

Keywords: Index of Kota Santri, maqasid syariah, postcolonialism, indigenization

KULDESAK RADIKALISME

Tulisan ini menawarkan pendefinisian radikalisme dan respon kampus terhadap temuan Badan Nasional... more

ISLAMOFOBIA KELAS MENENGAH

Tulisan ini mendiskusikan menguatnya gerakan dan partai ultranasionalis di Eropa. Menggunakan per... more

JOKOWI DAN NASIONALISME DIGITAL

Times Indonesia (18/09/2017), 2017

Di Barat, setiap yang asing merupakan obyek sasaran ketakutan sekaligus kebencian. Di Indonesia, ... more Di Barat, setiap yang asing merupakan obyek sasaran ketakutan sekaligus kebencian. Di Indonesia, yang berbeda bahkan tak hanya yang asing, tapi juga aseng—pelabelan spesifik yang merujuk pada etnisitas non-pribumi, Cina, anti-Islam, dan rakus dalam hal ekonomi. Bagi Johan Galtung, stereotyping melalui pelabelan peyoratif, akan beranjak ke tindakan diskriminasi dan berujung pada aksi kekerasan langsung. Pelabelan sosial hanyalah sumbu peledak berjarak dua langkah menuju ledakan aksi kekerasan secara fisik.
***
Penguatan identitas nasional yang dilakukan negara secara terbatas dan tradisional, seperti lewat pendidikan, kini tak cukup menarik minat kaum warganet (netizen) atau digital natives yang menjadi anak kandung era digital. Di sinilah ruang antara dan kosong yang ditinggalkan negara. Pernyataan Jokowi di atas menunjukkan secara jelas dunia digital adalah ruang antara, ruang kosong, yang bahkan negarapun tak mampu menguasainya. Ruang kosong di antara wilayah dalam/luar (inside/outside) yang disebut ruang liminal itu menunggu dihuni oleh kekuatan lain jika negara tak lagi mampu mengisinya. Saat identitas nasional sebagai sumber pegangan pemaknaan sosial tak lagi disosialisasikan dan diperkuat negara, maka arena ambang batas negara/bangsa dengan dunia luar ini akan diisi oleh nilai-nilai lain.

GARIS BATAS NASIONALISME DAN POPULISME ISLAM

Times Indonesia (18/09/2017), 2017

Diskursus " Saya Pancasila ", misalnya, merupakan taktik memilah siapa yang dianggap nasionalis d... more Diskursus " Saya Pancasila ", misalnya, merupakan taktik memilah siapa yang dianggap nasionalis dan yang bukan. Kategorisasi ini pada akhirnya mendefinsikan mereka yang anti-Ahok sebagai tidak nasionalis beserta segenap label yang dilekatkan: anti kebhinekaan, sumbu pendek, cingkrang pikir, anti NKRI, anti pemerintah, hingga anti Indonesia. Sebaliknya, diskursus “Bela Islam/Ulama” juga merupakan taktik memilah siapa yang pro-Ahok dan pro-Jokowi beserta segenap label yang disematkan: pro penista(an) Alqur’an dan ulama’, antek asing/aseng, hingga komunis atau anti Islam sampai tak layak disholatkan jenazahnya saat meninggal. Kedua belah pihak secara sadar saling melakukan kekerasan simbolik satu sama lain namun tak sadar mengidap amnesia temporer bahwa ada anak bangsa lainnya yang tidak terlibat dalam hingar bingar pertarungan keduanya: mereka yang berdiam menahan diri menghindari debat kusir sembari meyakini keindonesiaan tanpa harus mempertentangkannya dengan keislaman

TANTANGAN NASIONALISME KITA

Times Indonesia (18/09/2017), 2017

Globalisasi secara pasti mengubah wajah nasionalisme. Karenanya, narasi politik Indonesia sejak p... more Globalisasi secara pasti mengubah wajah nasionalisme. Karenanya, narasi politik Indonesia sejak pilpres 2014 dan berlanjut pada pilgub Jakarta 2017 menggaungkan kegamangan akan kebhinekaan dan kemandirian ekonomi. Di belahan bumi Barat, menariknya, kondisinya tak jauh berbeda. Brexit di Inggris Raya dan terpilihnya Trump di Amerika juga menjadi pertanda tantangan globalisasi pada nasionalisme bisa menawarkan akhir cerita yang menyentak.

ROBOHNYA KOTA ISLAMI KAMI

Tulisan ini mendiskusikan definisi kota islami yang digagas oleh orientalis dan malah menjadi ruj... more Tulisan ini mendiskusikan definisi kota islami yang digagas oleh orientalis dan malah menjadi rujukan para perancang tata kota di dunia Islam untuk membanung kotanya. Makkah dan Madinah menjadi contoh bagaimana rejim Saudi merobohkan peradaban Islam dan kota islami atas nama modernisasi kota serta paham keagamaan rejim yang didukung ulama kerajaan untuk menghancurkan situs historis yang dianggap potensial sebagai tempat kemusyrikan

KOTA ISLAMI, KOTA LOKAL, DAN GLOBALISASI

Tulisan ini menjelaskan bahwa kota telah menjadi arena pertarungan agenda global dan lokal. Denga... more

MENCARI KOTA SANTRI

Tulisan ini berupaya mengkritik pengertian tradisional kota santri dan menawarkan redefinisi untu... more

Demitologisasi Hubungan Indonesia - Malaysia

This paper argues for broader emphasis on demystifying myths of kinship that narrate Indonesia – ... more This paper argues for broader emphasis on demystifying myths of kinship that narrate Indonesia – Malaysia relations and employed as a shelter to camouflage latent conflict between them. Despite the fact that they share a lot of things in common, the author notes that the two nations hold contending lenses in perceiving each other which are often manifested when the neighbouring countries are in tense situation. Misunderstanding between them usually can be traced back from simplified perception urged by situation that often be conditioned by past historical experiences, precepts based on the nations’ scripture or written records, and mostly by mentalité, shared narratives, each nation holds. The paper will delve the nations’ history to examine both continuity and discontinuity of discourse such as serumpun identity and Greater Indonesia/Malay (Indonesia/Melayu Raya). This transgression will help to understand the pattern of friction and discord in their relationship that brings to uneasy neighbourhood in tackling contemporary issues from territorial disputes to cultural legacy claim frenzy. The author concludes by offering implications for unreconciled Malay identity to rivalries of these jiran countries in regional institutions.

Keywords: myths, kinship identity, mentalité

Perumusan Indeks Kota Santri - Prosiding Seminar Nasional Islam Nusantara 2016

by Yusli Effendi and HB Habibi Subandi

This research aims to develop a working concept of “Kota Santri” that sheds the light to formulat... more This research aims to develop a working concept of “Kota Santri” that sheds the light to formulation of Santri City Index. Three fundamental concepts of walayah, insaniyyah, and ma’ruf proposed as foundational scaffolding that deduced from primary, secondary, and tertier legal resources in Islam. The mentioned three fundamental principles serve as guiding principles to six legal values which will be broken down into variables and indicators of the proposed index in further research. Employing postcolonial approach and cross-disciplinary studies with qualitative data, this study is an effort of transforming into action and indigenization of Islamic norms.

Keywords: Index of Kota Santri, postcolonialism, Islamic norms, indigenization

Melumpuhkan Ingatan Kebangsaan

Koran Sindo, Jul 25, 2014

Apapun hasil yang dirilis KPU pada 22 Juli menjadi peneguh bahwa pilpres kali ini adalah pilpres ... more Apapun hasil yang dirilis KPU pada 22 Juli menjadi peneguh bahwa pilpres kali ini adalah pilpres yang paling membuat bangsa kita terpolarisasi sejak era reformasi bergulir. Hari-hari di masa kampanye begitu menguras pikiran, hati, bahkan tenaga kita. Membelah, membuat kita berhadapan dalam dua kubu. Meski hasil resmi rekapitulasi suara belum dirilis resmi oleh KPU, kedua belah pihak telah saling mengklaim kemenangan. Bahkan tim sukses (timses) Prabowo-Hatta telah menyiapkan gugatan ke MK jika mereka dinyatakan kalah dan meminta pemungutan suara ulang. * Dimuat cetak di Koran Sindo Jatim, Jumat, 25 Juli 2014 † Pengajar Hubungan Internasional FISIP Universitas Brawijaya. Bukan anggota tim sukses capres manapun.

Desekuritisasi Agama dalam Pemilu

Koran Sindo, Apr 25, 2014

Pemilu legislatif (pileg) baru saja usai, namun pesan singkat berantai bernada kampanye tak henda... more Pemilu legislatif (pileg) baru saja usai, namun pesan singkat berantai bernada kampanye tak hendak berhenti. Kita malah hari-hari ini mendapati penggunaan isu agama untuk menyebarkan stigma buruk pada calon presiden yang diusung parpol tertentu lewat telepon di genggaman kita. Atas nama kepentingan politik, sentimen primordial dijadikan jualan yang justru mengancam harmoni dan keutuhan bangsa.

Effendi dan Maulana - Kritik Jawa atas Teori Hubungan Internasional Barat

Ilmu Hubungan Internasional Indonesia: Perspektif dan Pengembangannya, 2022, Musa Maliki et.al., Malang: Intrans, 2022

Tulisan ini mendiskusikan kritik terhadap Teori Hubungan Internasional Barat dari perspektif Jawa

Glokalisasi: Gerakan Sosial, Kewargaan, dan Komunitas Lokal

by Yusli Effendi and Yusli Effendi,S.IP.,M.A

Glokalisasi, 2020

Padahal, saking kencangnya globalisasi neoliberal, gerakan protes yang muncul akibat ketimpangan ... more Padahal, saking kencangnya globalisasi neoliberal, gerakan protes yang muncul akibat ketimpangan dan ketidakadilan sosial yang diakibatkannya, tak mampu menghentikan lajunya. Dua gerakan anti-globalisasi yang masih punya stamina tinggi—gerakan kiri dan terorisme—bisa dikatakan tak berhasil menghambat globalisasi neoliberal. Keduanya bak korban patah hati penikmat campursari: menitipkan pesan kegetiran dan lara ati akibat globalisasi, namun tetap saja ditinggal pergi, bahkan mungkin dijogeti.

Aminuddin & Effendi (eds.) - Purnacandra

Inteligensia Media, 2020

Ia paham, sebagai pendidik, kami tak elok memiliki murid favorit yang di-anak emaskan dan mencang... more Ia paham, sebagai pendidik, kami tak elok memiliki murid favorit yang di-anak emaskan dan mencangkok diri kami yang nantinya usang untuk mereka yang bermasa depan panjang. Mengibaratkan murid seperti anak seperti dalam puisi Khalil Gibran “Anakmu Bukanlah Anakmu” yang sangat terkenal, pendidik bisa saja membuatkan rumah bagi raga muridnya, tapi tidak bagi jiwanya. Rumah mereka ada di masa mendatang. Zaman baru yang tidak mampu gurunya ziarahi, meski dalam mimpi. *** Bagi seorang pengkhalwat seperti dirinya, kegelapan adalah berkah. Berkah karena cahaya sering membutakan dan dengan kegelapan kita melepaskan diri dari keterikatan seraya menyendiri, menepi dan menyepi. “Cahaya datang dan pergi, kegelapan kekal abadi”.

Di Ambang Senja Nasionalisme

Tulisan ini membahas bagaimana sejarah nasionalisme, perubahan dari nasionalisme bajik (good nati... more Tulisan ini membahas bagaimana sejarah nasionalisme, perubahan dari nasionalisme bajik (good nationalism) ke nasionalisme jahat (bad nationalism), perbedaan nasionalisme Barat dan Timur, hingga pertarungan nasionalisme dengan populisme di Inggris, AS, dan popolusime Islam di Indonesia sebagai dampak globalisasi hingga nasionalisme digital

Desa: Pinggiran Indonesia, Pinggiran ASEAN

Tulisan ini berupaya mengidentifikasi tantangan desa-desa di Jawa Timur saat implementasi UU No.6... more Tulisan ini berupaya mengidentifikasi tantangan desa-desa di Jawa Timur saat implementasi UU No.6/2014 tentang Desa yang berdekatan waktunya dengan dimulainya Masyarakat Ekonomi ASEAN (MEA) 2015. UU Desa yang berupaya mengembalikan marwah desa agar menjadi desa yang berdaya dihadapkan dengan ketidaksiapan kapasitas desa dan rusaknya modalitas sosial, politik, ekonomi dan budaya yang di saat bersamaan juga menghadapi persaingan bebas dalam pasar bersama MEA. Kondisi ekonomi nasional, khususnya Jawa Timur, yang digerakkan oleh sektor informal rentan dilemahkan oleh persaingan bebas dalam MEA. Agenda-agenda MEA berpotensi memunculkan tantangan bagi ketahanan ekonomi desa-desa di Jatim dan kegagapan tata kepemerintahan (governance) dalam harmonisasi kebijakan di level regional, nasional, dan lokal