Youth culture and Islam in Indonesia

Youth culture and Islam in Indonesia

Blog Article

Indonesian youth culture is sometimes depicted through a moral panic discourse about mixed sex socializing.In this article, the authors Dryer challenge that view by presenting some ethnographic material on young Muslim Indonesians of both sexes socialising in an internet caf and gathering during Ramadhan in a mall in Solo, Central Java.Young Indonesians enact everyday youth culture through the negotiation of space, time, and technology within the strong discourse of moral propriety and gender separation advised by bottoms contemporary Islam.

The intense social bonding between same sex age peers provides security and reassurance for young men and women in the transition to adulthood.Technology is now integral to this bonding.