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Sarekat Islām, the first nationalist political party in Indonesia to gain wide popular support. Founded in 1912 the party originated as an association of those Muslim merchants who wanted to advance their economic interests in relation to Chinese merchants in Java, but the association became.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Sarekat Islam or Syarikat Islam ( lit. 'Islamic Association' [1] or 'Islamic Union'; [2] SI) was an Indonesian socio-political organization founded at the beginning of the 20th century during the Dutch colonial era. Initially, SI served as a cooperative of Muslim Javanese batik traders to compete with the Chinese-Indonesian big traders.
- 1911 (as Sarekat Dagang Islam, SDI), 1912 (renamed to Sarekat Islam, SI)
- Surabaya
- 350,000 (1916)
Dec 14, 2009 · Introduction. Sarekat Islam (Islamic Union, or SI) was the largest pre-independence Muslim political organization in the Dutch East Indies and the colony’s first mass nationalist movement. It started in 1911 as a small anti-Chinese commercial organization called Sarekat Dagang Islam (Islamic Commercial Union), which was dominated by merchants ...
Apr 13, 2024 · Formed in 1911 as an association of Javanese batik traders to protect themselves against Chinese competition, it had developed, by the time of its first party congress in 1913, into a mass organization dedicated to self-government through constitutional means. Its leader H. Q. S. Cokroaminoto (1882–1934), was viewed by many as a latter-day ...
Footnote 70 After a few false starts in the first decade of the twentieth century, a successful organization was founded in 1912, with explicitly indigenous leadership, called Sarekat Islam (SI). Under the guidance of the Surabaya-based activist H. O. S. Tjokroaminoto, SI grew into a much larger body and spread beyond Java.
- Kevin W. Fogg
- 2019
In 1915, the Central Islamic Union, or Centraal Sarekat Islam (CSI) was founded with Tjokroaminoto as its chairman, Abdoel Moeis as vice-chairman, and Samanhoedi as honorary chairman. Since then, Tjokroaminoto was continuously chairman or a member of the SI board of administration until his death.
Indonesian Islamic Union Party ( Indonesian: Partai Sarekat Islam Indonesia) was an Islamic political party in Indonesia before and after independence. In 1973 it was merged into the United Development Party . The pre-independence party. Establishment and aims.
