Muhammadiyah

Zakiyuddin BaidhawyIAIN Salatiga–Indonesia | zbaidhawy@gmail.com Abstract This study is aimed at exploring Muhammadiyah theological stand on disaster; its role and strategies in disaster management and mitigation. The ways in involving others and partnering with multiple stakeholders nationally and internationally also will be pictured. This study will show several things: First, Muhammadiyah perceives disaster in a positive way. As a consequence, it promotes awareness and on the importance of environment protection and management of risk and vulnerability. Second, Muhammadiyah establishes Muhammadiyah Disaster Management Center (MDMC) that focuses on organizing relief initiatives and disaster recovery which include mitigation and disaster anticipation trough Sekolah Siaga Bencana (Disaster-Prepared School) and Rumah Sakit Siaga Bencana (Disaster-Prepared Hospital). Third, Muham­ma­diyah works are guided by al-Ma‘un theology and prin­ciples of universal humanism (al-nas), mutual recogn

Mitsuo Nakamura is a cultural anthropologist and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Chiba University, specializing in the study of Islamic social movements in Indonesia. He was born in 1933 to a Japanese Christian family living in Manchuria, which was then part of the Japanese empire. Two years after the end of the war, he and his family returned to Japan. During his high school and college years, he was actively engaged in the left-wing student movement protesting against the threat of nuclear war and the imperialistic resurgence of Japan. He obtained his higher education from the University of Tokyo; a Bachelor’s degree in Western philosophy (1960), and then switching his major to cultural anthropology and receiving a Master’s degree (1965) from the same university. He continued his graduate studies in anthropology at Cornell University in the USA on a Fulbright scholarship, and obtained a Ph.D. (1976) on the basis of field observation on the Muhammadiyah movement in Kotagede, Yog