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The Re-Production of Discourse, the Exercise of Power, and the Creation of Piety in the Issue of HIV/AIDS and Islam in Indonesia
Madyan, Ahmad Shams
Madyan, Ahmad Shams
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This article offers an evaluative analysis of the approach taken to the Islamic responses towards HIV positive Muslims in Indonesia, considering the underlying rationale for their categorization or identification as a specific social category namely “MLWHA” (Muslims Living with HIV and AIDS). Through this article the author confirms that the category of “MLWHA” is truly constructed by a Muslim Authority in Indonesia namely the Council of Indonesian Ulama (MUI), when issuing their fatwâ (religious decree) on HIV and AIDS in 1995, which is also famous to be named as “Tadzkirah Bandung”. Through that fatwâ, MUI categorized Muslims in Indonesia into three social categories; first Individual Muslims who are living with HIV and AIDS, second “Individual Muslims who live with risky behavior (of HIV transmission)” and the third is “Indonesian Muslims in general”. The author shows that there are two constructions or two responses of Islam looking at AIDS. The first is an option to see AIDS as a crisis of morality, while the second is an option to see AIDS is a crisis of more global injustice; It is a crisis in a greater and more complex sense of humanity. The first option is the most popular in Indonesian Islam. It is the response that sees AIDS as God’s punishment, divine retribution homosexual attribution.
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2013-09
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