The Existence of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia: Strategies for Engaging in Indonesian Politics (original) (raw)

This article discusses the strategy of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) involved in Indonesian politics. HTI wants to have a caliphate system in Indonesia. They did not practice a party or were directly active in Indonesian politics, but tried to enter the elite of the Indonesian government and society. The theory used in this study is a social movement that pursues to explain why social mobilization occurs, the forms of collective action, and the potential social, cultural, and political consequences. In social movement theory, there are two structures. First, the approach that seeks to explain the involvement of individuals in the form of non-electoral political participation, the second concerns collective actors, where there are opposing common interests. The method used is a qualitative method using secondary data, namely a literature study with study data from previous research on the topic of HTI in Indonesian politics.