Gerakan Pembaharuan Pemikiran Islam Di Indonesia

: Islamic Thought Reform Movement in Indonesia: From Part of Problem to be Part of Solution. The rapid development of social life in the era of globalization has often been run unparallel with the effort for thinking reform within the Muslim community. It appears that this may have arisen from the belief that the works of the past scholars of Islam are regarded to be sacred, capable of responding to any challenges in the span of the history of Muslim community and thus regarded final. Similarly, any attempt to criticize such views is seen as an academic assault the actor of whom may be accused of doing an act of apostasy. At the end, this lead to anxiety within the academicians to carry out reform that would have a logical consequence of thinking to be stagnant. This essay is an attemp to discuss the problems of Islamic thought reform in Indonesia in details as well as find solution to such problems