Muslim Punk Discourse in Contemporary Indonesia

The purpose of the article is to analyze contemporary punk culture in Indonesia in its Muslim version. The author examines the activity of punk bands that have a reputation as pro-Muslim and pro-Islamist ones in modern Indonesia. The novelty of the research lies in the analysis of the Muslim punk discourse and its contribution to the development and transformation of modern ideological preferences of a part of the Muslim Ummah. A wide range of issues presented in the modern political discourse of the Muslim punk movement in Indonesia is also cosidered. The author demonstrates that the range of ideological preferences of Muslim believers integrated into punk culture is limited mainly by conservative Islam. Therefore, the contribution of representatives of the punk movement to the development of the concepts of Jihad is also shown. The author analyzes the ideological features of the Muslim punk discourse, presuming that Islamism, conservatism and anti-Zionism became its systemic features. It is assumed that punk discourse as a form of mass culture can significantly influence the development of the Ummah in a country where a significant part of the socially and culturally active population are young people who tend to use Islam as a factor in legitimizing their own forms of political activity.