Nahdlatul Ulama’s “Funny Brigade”: Piety, Satire, and Indonesian Online Divides

Nahdlatul Ulama’s “Funny Brigade”: Piety, Satire, and Indonesian Online Divides

Nahdlatul Ulama’s “Funny Brigade”: Piety, Satire, and Indonesian Online Divides
James Bourk Hoesterey Article Indonesia’s largest Muslim organization, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), arrived relatively late on the Islamic social media scene. By the time Nahdlatul Ulama leadership recognized and commissioned the need for online advocacy, a generation of young media-savvy preachers had already stoked the embers of sectarian divides and cast suspicion on those deemed secular or liberal. Even within Nahdlatul Ulama, a sprawling network of religious leaders and Islamic…