Revitalisasi Islam Nusantara di Era Digital: Antara Harapan dan Kenyataan

Abstract

ABSTRAKSI: Artikel ini – dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif, metode historis, tinjauan literatur, dan analisis deskriptif – bertujuan untuk merekonstruksi wajah Islam Nusantara di era digital. Wajah santun Islam yang selama ini ditampilkan, dijaga, dirawat, dan ditumbuhkembangkan oleh para “Salafussholih”, seperti Wali Songo, Ulama, Kyai Kampung, Santri, dan Komunitas Moderat, menjadi tercoreng oleh ulah sebagian kecil pemeluk Islam radikal. Padahal, apa yang ditampilkan Islam radikal senyatanya bukanlah gambaran Islam Nusantara (Indonesia) itu sendiri. Arena kontestasi Islam radikal yang diekspos sedemikian rupa, baik melalui surat kabar, televisi, media sosial, maupun dunia maya seperti Website, Blogger, Twitter, Face Book, AhatsApp, pada hakikatnya menjadi kunci eksistensi kelompok mereka. Ada tiga hal yang ditemukan dalam kajian ini. Pertama, Konstruksi Islam Nusantara sebagai Rumah Besar Islam di Indonesia, yang dipraktekkan melalui akulturasi kebudayaan lokal dan Islam, di antaranya melalui tradisi ziarah kubur, tradisi tahlilan, tradisi wiridan, tradisi kenduri atau slametan, tradisi barjanzi, tradisi Peringatan Hari Besar Islam, dan tradisi silaturrahmi. Kedua, Kontestasi Wajah Baru Islam Nusantara di Dunia Maya, yang dapat diformat melalui empat model: Islam Nusantara virtual tanpa identitas, Islam Nusantara virtual berbasis swadaya pesantren, Islam Nusantara virtual berbasis komunitas, dan Islam Nusantara virtual berbasis NU (Nahdlatul Ulama). Ketiga, Reposisi Ulama Masa Kini sebagai Penggerak Islam Nusantara, yang ditandai dengan adanya ekspos fakto atas aktivitas Kyai yang “maslahah” atau bermanfaat bagi umat Islam di dunia maya.

KATA KUNCI: Islam Nusantara Virtual; Insklusivisme Islam; Reposisi Ulama. 

ABSTRACT: “Revitalizing Archipelagic Islam in the Digital Age: Between Hope and Reality”. This article – using a qualitative approach, historical methods, literature review, and descriptive analysis – aims to reconstruct the face of Archipelagic Islam in the digital age. The polite faces of Islam that have been displayed, guarded, cared for and developed by the “Salafussholihs”, such as Nine Saints, Islamic Scholars, Kampung Clerics, Islamic Boarding School Students, and Moderate Community, have been tarnished by the actions of a small part of radical Muslims. In fact, what is shown by radical Islam is actually not a picture of Archipelagic (Indonesian) Islam itself. Arena of radical Islamic contestation that is exposed in such a way, whether through newspapers, television, social media, or cyberspace such as Website, Blogger, Twitter, Face Book, AhatsApp, is essentially the key to their group's existence. There are three things found in this study. Firstly, the Construction of the Archipelagic Islam as a Large Islamic House in Indonesia, which is practiced through local and Islamic cultural acculturation, including through the grave pilgrimage tradition, “tahlilan” tradition, “wiridan” tradition, “kenduri” tradition or “slametan”, the “barjanzi” tradition, the commemoration of Islamic holidays, and the tradition of “silaturrahmi”. Secondly, the Contestation of the New Face of Archipelagic Islam in Cyberspace, that can be formatted through four models: a virtual Archipelagic Islam without identity, a virtual Archipelagic Islam based on Islamic boarding school, a virtual Archipelagic Islam based on a community, and a virtual Archipelagic Islam based on NU (Nahdlatul Ulama). Thirdly, Repositioning of the Islamic Scholars as the Activator of Archipelagic Islam, one of which is marked by factual exposure to the activities of the Clerics which is “maslahah” or beneficial for the Islamic communities in cyberspace.

KEY WORD: Virtual Archipelagic Islam; Islamic Inclusivism; Repositioning of Islamic Scholars.

About the Author: Dr. Mukodi adalah Dosen Senior di STKIP PGRI (Sekolah Tinggi Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan, Persatuan Guru Republik Indonesia) di Pacitan, Jawa Timur, Indonesia. Untuk kepentingan akademik, Penulis bisa dihubungi dengan alamat emel: mukodi@yahoo.com

Suggested Citation: Mukodi. (2020). “Revitalisasi Islam Nusantara di Era Digital: Antara Harapan dan Kenyataan” in INSANCITA: Journal of Islamic Studies in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, Volume 5(1), February, pp.43-54. Bandung, West Java, Indonesia: Minda Masagi Press owned by ASPENSI, with ISSN 2443-1776 (print) and ISSN 2657-0491 (online).

Article Timeline: Accepted (October 28, 2019); Revised (December 27, 2019); and Published (February 28, 2020).