THE HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY INDONESIAN MUSLIM GROUPS AND MUSLIM MEDIA
Abstract
Indonesia as the most populous Muslim country in the world is always interesting to be
explored. Not only consist of more than 300 local ethnics, but also as the third most
democratic country after India and USA. However, Indonesian Muslims are diverse into
different groups, which started from the early 20s century, and also developed their own
Muslim media channels. However, it seems that the political change in Indonesia has
biggest influence to the growth of Muslim groups in Indonesia. Therefore, this article
attempts to describe this influence into both Muslim groups and media from early 1900s
to 2010.