Javanese Women and the Veil in Post-Soeharto Indonesia

摘要: This article examines the practice and meanings of new veiling Islamization more generally for young Muslim Javanese women in middle class. Drawing on eight months ethnographic research Central Java city Yogyakarta 1999 three subsequent one-month visits during 2001, 2002, 2003, I explore social religious attitudes female students at two Yogyakarta's leading centers higher education: Gadjah Mada University, a nondenominational state university, nearby Sunan Kalijaga National Islamic University. The life-historical materials discussed here underscore that is neither traditionalist survival nor an antimodernist reaction but rather complex sometimes ambiguous effort by to reconcile opportunities autonomy choice offered modern education with heightened commitment profession Islam.