Keeping Faith with Leftist Islam
Semaoen provoked Tjokroaminoto into changing his strategy and become an anti-Dutch militant. He himself also took up arms to join the Prophet Muhammad’s Army (TKNM).
August 17, 2011
FOR nine days, the congress members debated the interpretations of the hadith and other reference texts (of the Qu’ran). In Jakarta, the Indonesian Islamic Union Party (PSII) at that time attended the 19th congress from March 3-12, 1933. The debate was a follow up on calls by Hadji Oemar Said Tjokroaminoto, PSII Vice President, made two months before the congress began. Titled ‘An Appeal to the Ulema’, his document opened the way to streng
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