The Madurese Women’s Resilience in the Face of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) in Madura

This article discusses the dynamics of Islam and diversity in Indonesia as a recent and exciting phenomenon. It relates to the global Islamic movement or “transnational Islamic movement,” especially Hizb Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), which is developed and gaining followers in Indonesia, including in Madura. Madurese women react to this phenomenon by building resilience. The research demonstrated that women are also interested in and concerned about religious issues, not only those related to timing-deeper (kitchen-stove), marginalization, or domestic submission. Does this paper attempt to answer the questions what are the resilience among the Madurese women against Hizb ut-Tahrir Indonesia (HTI)? And how and why they build resilience in the face of this Islamist group. This article uses a social anthropology approach based on the theory of resilience. The study found that the Madurese women made use of their local wisdom in building their resilience. The process of building resilience arises from their awareness of the potential chaos and disorder due to the HTI strategy. The Madurese women also believed that the Islamist group will likely cause social divisions, destroy the nation-state of Indonesia. They choose resilience, rather than violence because the latter is considered irrelevant to Islam and the doctrine of ahl al-sunah wa al-jamaah.