ISLAM NUSANTARA AS MODERATAND TOLERANT ISLAM: A LITERATURE RESEARCH
Abstract
Some questions are raised by foreign researchers and observers about Islam of
Indonesia. After literature survey was done, it’s concluded that format of the
Indonesian Islam is moderate and tolerate one. This is viewed in its characteristic
doesn’t support the method of coercion, eviction, and destruction of the religious
tradition existing before Islam came to Indonesia in developing it in archipelago,
before it changes to Indonesia. The accommodative characteristic of the Islam
developed by the clergy (religious figure) such as walisongo in Java Island, the religious
figure (muballigh) from the Middle East in Indonesia and also the muballigh after
walisongo coming from Muhammadiyah and NU. Islam never discredited another
religion even though it’s different. So, the culture developed is the moderate and
tolerate culture even though it aims to do renewal about which one is not suitable
with Islam. The literature done in this writing has shown the characteristic of the
Indonesian Islam which is known also with the term Islam of archipelago (Islam
Nusantara).