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Market-Compatible Developmentalism

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This chapter problematises the relationship between television as a mass media with nationwide reach and the rising Islamic visibility it is projecting to its heterogeneous audience in post-authoritarian Indonesia. Focusing on the diverse viewers’ responses towards Islamic television drama in Indonesia, or sinetron religi, the chapter draws attention to how the young, heterogeneous, educated middle class moderated this dominance with cultural pluralism. Islamic television programmes were responded by placing religion on par with ethnicity within the nation-state construct. This shows that there are apprehensions towards the increasing visibility of Islam in democratising Indonesia. This chapter concludes that specific Islamic symbols aired by commercial television, or a rejection of them, resonate with particular secular, developmentalist narratives in support of national unity.

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Rakhmani, I. (2016). Market-Compatible Developmentalism. In: Mainstreaming Islam in Indonesia. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54880-1_5

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