Author: Howard Zindiq
\nPublisher: Active Distribution
\nISBN: 9781909798335
\nPublished: 2015
\nFormat: Pamphlet
\nSize: 4.1 x 5.8
\nPage count: 90
\nSubjects: Punk, Religion, Islam<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The influence of religion in Indonesia is\u00a0substantively different to the UK, and\u00a0even to Poland despite the boasts of\u00a0influence by the Catholic Church there.\u00a0Religion infiltrates into the state and is\u00a0at the root of organised terror\u00a0campaigns, the affordable schools are\u00a0madrassas, pressures from society and\u00a0family are intense, and atheism is\u00a0unlawful. Religion wields huge power\u00a0in Indonesia and it does not allow its\u00a0influence to be escaped easily. The\u00a0examples of openly anti-religious punk\u00a0discussed above are exceptional. They\u00a0are also illegal. In \u2018the West\u2019 punk\u00a0opposes religion, even if religion is far less concerned with punk. In Indonesia the \u2018opposition\u2019 flows predominantly in the other direction, with religious groups actively repressing punks, while punks seek to maintain affiliation to a religious identity or culture. Any sense of an expected or \u2018ordinary\u2019 relationship between punk and religion completely breaks down. The imperialist\/neo-colonial\/Orientalist argument would run that Indonesian punks will become more atheistic with increasing exposure to their \u2018more advanced\u2019 or \u2018further developed\u2019 atheist comrades in the West.<\/p>\n
The influence of the global punk scene is very important, as Sean Martin-Iverson argues in one of his articles detailing the Bandung punk scene of the mid- 2000s:<\/p>\n
«[t]here is little overt aesthetic hybridity displayed in Indonesian underground music, which is more concerned with fidelity to global\u00a0underground styles … also displayed by the frequent use of English terms, phrases, and song lyrics. It is certainly the case that\u00a0Indonesian punk is\u00a0recognisably a constituent\u00a0part of the \u2018global punk scene\u2019 \u2013 both aesthetically, and in\u00a0terms of international\u00a0connections.\u00a0Punk\u00a0culture is an international entity with significant\u00a0commonalities traversing\u00a0scenes across the globe. But these scenes are also heavily localised and develop in tension with co-existing local cultures. As such, Indonesian punk has a very distinct character \u2013 interviewees repeatedly expressed the idea of a \u2018punk Indonesia.\u2019\u00a0As described, the relationship with religion here is one of Indonesian punk\u2019s most distinctive characteristics. The impact of an aggressively enforced\u00a0religious culture results in a locally distinct relationship between punk and Islam which does not map onto Western punk contexts.»<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[127,30],"product_tag":[144,202,203],"class_list":{"0":"post-3023","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books-en","7":"product_cat-books1312","8":"product_tag-active-distribution","9":"product_tag-indoneziya","10":"product_tag-pank","11":"desktop-align-center","12":"tablet-align-center","13":"mobile-align-center","15":"first","16":"instock","17":"shipping-taxable","18":"purchasable","19":"product-type-simple"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/3023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3023"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=3023"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sabotage.ninja\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=3023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}