The Movement of Islamic Defenders Front and Its Socio Political Influence on Indonesian Society

Abstract

This article discusses the FPI movement, addressing its background, its ideology and its development in Indonesia. To help the flow of the discussion, this article is systematized as follows; first, this article is outlined as the geopolitical context of Indonesia that motivated the emergence of FPI as an Islamic defenders front. In this section, it discusses how politicians took advantage of the establishment of the group to support their political agenda. Second, this article discusses FPI’s ideology, its identity formation and its movement. And in the last section, it discusses how the FPI advances such ideology to Indonesian society and how it has massively changed the religious-socio-political landscape of Indonesia.