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The Cult Dossier · No. 148 · Jewish / Islamic-Derived
Gafatar
Gerakan Fajar Nusantara; Millah Abraham
2011 – 2016 · Indonesia — Java, Kalimantan (Borneo)
XIII. FILLING THE GAPS — ASIA, AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA
Fully religious — Islamic-derived syncretic movement
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 2007 Mushaddeq's earlier movement declared deviant; he is convicted of blasphemy and imprisoned.
- JANUARY 2012 Gafatar formally founded, headquartered in Jakarta and presenting itself publicly as a social and agricultural organisation. At its height it claims around 55,000 MEMBERS with branches in ALL 34 INDONESIAN PROVINCES.
- 2011–15 Thousands relocate to agricultural settlements in Kalimantan.
- JANUARY 2016 MOBS ATTACK AND BURN THE SETTLEMENTS, beginning at Mempawah district in West Kalimantan where around 1,000 followers are driven out. Roughly 7,000 members in total are forcibly evacuated by the state across Kalimantan and shipped back to Java; hundreds of homes destroyed. HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH documents the episode as state-tolerated persecution rather than law enforcement.
- 2016–2018 THE DISPLACED ARE NOT ABSORBED. Returned to home villages in Java, former members face sustained stigmatisation from neighbours. A government attempt to resettle them through the transmigration programme — to Morotai in Maluku and elsewhere — MEETS LOCAL RESISTANCE and largely fails. Many are left without land, work or community.
- 2016 The government formally BANS the organisation; the Ulema Council declares it deviant.
- FEBRUARY–MARCH 2017 Mushaddeq and two others are tried in Jakarta on charges of BLASPHEMY AND TREASON, both of which they deny in court. THEY ARE ACQUITTED OF TREASON AND CONVICTED OF BLASPHEMY, the court holding that Gafatar’s teaching deviated from Islam — it did not require the five daily prayers. MUSHADDEQ AND MAHFUL MUIS TUMANURUNG EACH RECEIVE FIVE YEARS, the maximum the blasphemy law allows, and ANDRY CAHYA three. Human Rights Watch called the outcome the end point of a national campaign against the group.
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