The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) in the landscape of Indonesian Islamist politics : cadre-training as mode of preventive radicalisation?

The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera PKS is one of the younger parties in Indonesia today, yet it has established itself as a national party with branch offices all over the Indonesian archipelago and representation in government at all levels. When it first came onto the scene of Indonesian politics it wa...

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Main Author: Farish A. Noor
Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
Format: Working Paper
Language:English
Published: 2012
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101530
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7603
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description The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera PKS is one of the younger parties in Indonesia today, yet it has established itself as a national party with branch offices all over the Indonesian archipelago and representation in government at all levels. When it first came onto the scene of Indonesian politics it was criticized by Indonesian liberal intellectuals as a ‘Trojan horse’ for further Islamisation of Indonesia. However some of Indonesia’s more radical and militant Islamist groups have in turn criticized the PKS for ‘selling out’ by joining the democratic political process. This paper looks at the cadre-training system of the PKS, which may be the most disciplined and rationalized in the country today, and addresses the question of whether the PKS’s cadre-training system is the factor that has kept it on its political course, and within the bounds of constitutional-legal democratic politics.
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spelling ntu-10356/1015302020-11-01T08:48:38Z The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) in the landscape of Indonesian Islamist politics : cadre-training as mode of preventive radicalisation? Farish A. Noor S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera PKS is one of the younger parties in Indonesia today, yet it has established itself as a national party with branch offices all over the Indonesian archipelago and representation in government at all levels. When it first came onto the scene of Indonesian politics it was criticized by Indonesian liberal intellectuals as a ‘Trojan horse’ for further Islamisation of Indonesia. However some of Indonesia’s more radical and militant Islamist groups have in turn criticized the PKS for ‘selling out’ by joining the democratic political process. This paper looks at the cadre-training system of the PKS, which may be the most disciplined and rationalized in the country today, and addresses the question of whether the PKS’s cadre-training system is the factor that has kept it on its political course, and within the bounds of constitutional-legal democratic politics. 2012-03-05T04:39:32Z 2019-12-06T20:40:02Z 2012-03-05T04:39:32Z 2019-12-06T20:40:02Z 2011 2011 Working Paper Farish A. Noor. (2011). The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) in the landscape of Indonesian Islamist politics : cadre-training as mode of preventive radicalisation?. (RSIS Working Paper, No. 231). Singapore: Nanyang Technological University. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101530 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7603 en RSIS Working Papers ; 231/11 56 p. application/pdf
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The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) in the landscape of Indonesian Islamist politics : cadre-training as mode of preventive radicalisation?
title The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) in the landscape of Indonesian Islamist politics : cadre-training as mode of preventive radicalisation?
title_full The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) in the landscape of Indonesian Islamist politics : cadre-training as mode of preventive radicalisation?
title_fullStr The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) in the landscape of Indonesian Islamist politics : cadre-training as mode of preventive radicalisation?
title_full_unstemmed The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) in the landscape of Indonesian Islamist politics : cadre-training as mode of preventive radicalisation?
title_short The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) in the landscape of Indonesian Islamist politics : cadre-training as mode of preventive radicalisation?
title_sort partai keadilan sejahtera pks in the landscape of indonesian islamist politics cadre training as mode of preventive radicalisation
topic DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
url https://hdl.handle.net/10356/101530
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