Opposed to the widespread economic and political influence of the Catholic and ethnic Chinese community, ICMI-affiliated officials ended government schemes that were seen as being mainly beneficial to Catholics and Chinese Indonesians. Habibie, ICMI activists infiltrated the central government, being appointed to important posts within the civil service and central ministries.

Consisting of elite intellectuals, ICMI's influence grew mainly with the patronage of Suharto and his political party, Golkar. While highly-influential during the Suharto era, ICMI lacked a grassroots organisation, public appeal or popular support. Its prominent members also included Amien Rais, who would later become a major opponent of the Suharto regime and chief of Muhammadiyah, reputedly the largest Islamic organization in the world. Habibie (who soon became Suharto's vice-president) served as ICMI's president while Indonesia Muslim scholars and political activists such as Imaduddin (who had been imprisoned by the Suharto regime in 1979) helped organize the body.

As opposed to traditional Islamic organizations in Indonesia such as the Nahdatul Ulama (NU), ICMI supported Suharto's regime in turn for considerable influence in policy-making and administration.īy 1994, ICMI had grown considerably, boasting as many as 20,000 members, who were largely Indonesia Muslim professionals, scientists, economists, educators and scholars. In the prior year, Suharto had permitted the formation of the Indonesian Association of Indonesia Muslim Intellectuals under the influence of Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie, a close adviser and then-minister of technology and research. Adopting the name Haji Mohammed Suharto, he undertook a hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Saudi Arabia in 1991. However, in the early 1990s, Suharto moved his public identity and government considerably towards Islam. Suharto pursued a secular system of government, which along with the high-level appointment of Catholics and patronage of the ethnic Chinese community made Indonesia Muslim political groups a major part of opposition to his regime.

While most Indonesia Muslim politicians had supported the deposing of the Sukarno regime and the suppression of the Communist Party of Indonesia by Indonesian army chief Suharto between 19, the latter suppressed Indonesia Muslim political activities. Habibie, the organisation is committed to fight against poverty and improve education in Indonesia. Founded in 1990 by Indonesian Secretary of Research and Technology B. The Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals (Indonesian: Ikatan Cendekiawan Muslim Indonesia, ICMI) is a Muslim organization in Indonesia.

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