ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with a broader—world political—perspective in order to embed the developments in Indonesia and Malaysia in the setting of what may be called the international politics of Islamic revival. It focuses on developments in two Southeast Asian states with Muslim-majority populations, Indonesia and Malaysia, and traces the late sixties and seventies as a period of considerable social change there. The chapter addresses the central issue of Islamic resurgence and revival in the 1960s and 1970s as a Zeitgeist-driven movement displaying features similar to its sixties counterparts in the secular world. While acknowledging the important role of student and New Left movements during the period known as the "global sixties" in the West, it remains to be questioned if such movements emerged all over the globe. The chapter argues that "Islamic resurgence" movements of the sixties and seventies had a similar impact on their societies and politics as the "1968" and New Left movements had in Western countries.
