Social Identity of Santri: A Case Study in Politics

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200529.224How to use a DOI?

Keywords

santri, identity, strategic, unique, values

Abstract

As the largest Islamic organization in Indonesia, the Nahdlotul Ulama (NU) has members (santri) which have contributed to the development of Indonesia. Some of Santri either became politically active as a party member or involved a strategic nonpolitical position. The purpose of the study is to find out how the santri build their social identity in their political activities. A case study was conducted to find the process and the central dynamics of santri in political activities. The several semi-structured interviews were used to obtain the construction of identity of two members of Nahdlotul Ulama (NU) who have grown up in the santri tradition. The results of this research show that a unique identity of santri was built by their pride in their status as santri, since they believe that the santri status has more values than others. They also believe that their political activity is a kind of religious activity.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Min Hajul Abidin
AU  - Mustadin
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/05/04
TI  - Social Identity of Santri: A Case Study in Politics
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Borobudur International Symposium on Humanities, Economics and Social Sciences (BIS-HESS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1072
EP  - 1076
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200529.224
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200529.224
ID  - Abidin2020
ER  -