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54Islam, Democracy and Human Rights in Contemporary Indonesiafeel themselves always right and devote themselves bystruggling their doctrines through disciplines which tend to berigid and hard. This tendency will appear each time there is apressure towards the religious community in a relative longperiod, which could not be solved through peace. While thetraditionalist tend to be compromising with old traditional beliefand local tradition. In general there also tolerant and respectthe plurality.In my view, Islam in Indonesia tend to be moderate in seeingpolitical problems. In majority, the Islamic political power couldbe included as the modernist and traditionalist groups. In thisyears, the power of fundamentalist seemed to strengthen, partlybecause of the influence of political ideas in behaviors fromMiddle East and South Asia, besides pressure and omissionfactors in Indonesia itself. In my opinion, developments in thefields of education, social, and economic, and making peoplefree from repressive actions and inequality is the best way toprevent the appearance of the fundamentalist indications. Whathas happened in North Ireland shows that they became terroristnot because they are catholic but because of pushing factorssuch as sociological, political, and historical factors. TheCatholics in Spain, France, Korea and Philippine do notestablish similar movement. In that case in my view, it is tona%u00efve to say that every Muslim community are terrorist, afterthe bombing of the WTC Building in New York in lastSeptember. President%u2019s Bush words who try to reassure theMuslim in connection with his decision in taking steps in theOsama Bin Laden case, could not eliminate the suspicionsbetween the Muslim and Christian community. A simple andredundant generalization of terrorist group connected with