Disintegration from Within and Open Indonesian Identity

For almost two decades since choosing the political system of democracy, the dynamics of contemporary Indonesian politics are colored by various upheavals that have led to the disintegration of the nation. Social conflicts continue to occur, ranging from interethnic conflicts in Ambon, Poso, Kalimantan, and several other areas related to different sentiments, religions, and also races. When ethnic-based horizontal conflicts began to recede, in the last ten years, the conflict with the background of the issue of religious differences became stronger following political moments such as the Governor election and even the election of the President and Vice President. Based on Benedict Anderson's thesis, Indonesia is a public project of various solidarity groups and will get a serious challenge. Solidarity groups based on ethnic, religious, racial, and other identity differences continue to prove the strengthening of identity debated in the nation's integration from within. Furthermore, the solidarity group that bases on one of the Islamic religious sects, that obsess in realizing the integration of religion and the state, continues to carry out various political, economic, social and cultural activities that result in internal disintegration. This paper aims at analyzing the existence and socio-political activities of various solidarity groups in the dynamics of contemporary Indonesian politics and what the subject positions in these groups are in discussions with the discourse of establishing an Indonesian identity. Various theories of globalization and locality will be used as provisions to analyze in depth the various solidarity groups, to find out and identify potential and risks related to the disintegration and integration of the nation.