Director
Saipul Hamdi is the Director of Gempera Foundation. Currently he also is an associate Professor in Sociology Department, University of Mataram. His research focuses on Islamic transnational movement such as Tablighi Jamaat, Wahhabism, local Islamic organization of Nahdlatul Wathan, social conflict, religion and politics. Personal email: shamdi@gempera.org / shamdi@unram.ac.id
Education
- 1998-2002 Bachelor of Islamic Education, Education Faculty, Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- 2003-2005 MA in Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Study Program, Postgraduate School, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- 2006-2011 PhD in Religious and Cross-Cultural Studies, Interdisciplinary Study Program, Postgraduate School, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Current Job
- 2023-Present, Director of Gempera
- 2019-Present, Associate Professor Sociology Departement, Universitas Mataram
- 2018-Present, Director of Pulham Media Press
Research Publications:
Books
- Hamdi, Saipul. (2021). Perubahan Praktek Keagamaan Jamaah Tabligh Pada Masa Pandemi Covid-19 Mataram: Pulham Media
- Hamdi, Saipul & Awalia, Hafizah. (2021). Sosiologi Budaya, Mataram: Pulham Media
- Hamdi, Saipul. (2020). Tasir Keagamaan Jamaah Tablighi, Samarinda: IAIN Samarinda Press
- Hamdi, Saipul (2020). Gerakan Wahhabisme di Indonesia: Demazhabisasi Islam, Khilafah Islamiyah dan Disintegrasi Sosial. Mataram: Pulham Media
- Hamdi, Saipul. (2020). Sosiologi Pendidikan, Mataram: Pulham Media
- Hamdi, Saipul (2019). Analisis Kontrastif Kalimat Berita dalam Bahasa Arab dan Indonesia. Mataram: Pulham Media
- Hamdi, Saipul (2019). Nahdlatul Wathan di Era Reformasi: Agama, Konflik Komunal dan Peta rekonsiliasi,Mataram: Pulham Media.
- Hamdi, Saipul (2017). Pesantren dan Gerakan Feminisme di Indonesia. Samarinda: IAIN Samarinda Press.
Book chapters
- Hamdi, Saipul. (2014). ‘Interpreting and enacting Islamic feminism in pesantren Al-Muayyad Windan, Solo’, in Bianca J. Smith & Mark Woodward (eds.), Gender and Power in Indonesian Islam: Leaders, Feminists, Sufis and Pesantren Selves. NY and Oxford: Routledge.
- B.J. Smith & Hamdi, Saipul (2014), ‘Between Sufi and Salafi subjects: Female leadership, spiritual power and gender matters in Lombok’, in Bianca J. Smith & M Woodward (eds.), Gender and Power in Indonesian Islam: Leaders, Feminists, Sufis and Pesantren Selves. NY and Oxford: Routledge.
Journal articles
- Hamdi, Saipul. 2022. Covid-19, Social Stigma and Changing Religious Practice in Tablighi Jamaat Communities in Lombok, Indonesia, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction , No. 76/102996.
- Hamdi, Saipul and Fogg, Kevin. 2022. The Indonesian Central Government in Local Conflict Resolution: Lessons from the Reconciliation of Nahdlatul Wathan, Indonesia Cornel University Press. No.114 /October 2022
- Hamdi, Saipul, Jannah, Nur, Nasrullah, Arif and Zuarnum & Linda Sari. 2022. Madhhab Negotiation, Education Transformation and Conflict Resolution in Conveying the Sermon of Tablighi Jamaat in Southeast Asia, Religious: Jurnal Studi Agama-agama dan Lintas Budaya (Journal of Religious and Cross-cultural Studies), 6/1
- Hamdi, Saipul, Syarifuddin, Oryza & Nia. 2022. Covid-19 and Migrant Worker: A Case Study of the Education and Health of Children of Migrant Workers in East Lombok During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Sangkep: Jurnal Kajian Sosial Keagamaan. 5/1.
- Hamdi, Saipul, Syarifuddin, Oryza & Erlina Ega. 2022. Strategi Pemerintah Membantu Pekerja Migran dalam Mengatasi Dampak Covid-19 di Suralaga, Lombok Timur, Jurnal Kebijakan Pembangunan (JKP), 17/2
- Zuarnum, Linda Sari & Hamdi, Saipul. 2022. Religious Discrimination Praxis In Public Schools In East Lombok, Jurnal Living Islam: The Journal of Islamic Discourses, 5/1.
- Hamdi, Saipul, Suwarto & Mulyadi, Fadli. 2021. De-Radikalisasi Islam, Khilafah dan Pendidikan Pancasila di Komunitas Wahabisme di Indonesia. Sangkep, 4/2
- Hamdi, Saipul, Muzayyin and Fadli, Mulyadi. 2021. Self-Islah, Gender Relation And Socio-Economic Challenges On Tablighi Jamaat Proselytization Practice In Indonesia, Al-Albab: Bourneo Journal of Religious Studies, 10/2
- Hamdi, Saipul. 2019. Dekulturalisasi Islam dan Konflik Sosial dalam Dakwah Wahhabi di Indonesia. Jurnal Kawistara. (https://doi.org/10.22146/kawistara.40397)
- 2018. Tuan Guru Zainuddin Abdul Majid: Integrasi Budaya, Pendidikan dan Politik dalam Dakwah Nahdlatul Wathan Di Lombok, Nusa Tenggara Barat. Jurnal JSW (http://journal.walisongo.ac.id/index.php/JSW/article/view/2964)
- 2017. Integrasi Umat, Kemiskinan, dan Radikalisme dalam Jamaah Tablighi Di Indonesia. Jurnal Review Politik, Vol. 7, No. 01 2017.http://jurnalfuf.uinsby.ac.id/index.php/JRP/article/view/1095
- 2017. Conflicting Religious Identities: Blaspheming Islam and the Future of Democracy in Indonesia, Al-Albab Bourneo Journal of Religious Studies,Vol.6, No.2. 2017: 247-262.
- Hamdi, Saipul & Smith, Bianca J dan Carnegie, Paul J. (2015) ‘The Recovery of a Non-Violent Identity for an Islamist Pesantren in an Age of Terror,’ Australian Journal of International Affair, Published online. 19 Agustus 2015: 1-19/ DOI: 10.1080/10357718.2015.1058339.
- 2015. ‘Demazhabization of Islam, Divinity Economy and Narrative of Conflict onf the Tablighi Followers in Samarinda East Kalimantan’, Al Albab Bourneo Journal of Religious Studies, Vol. 4 No. 2, 2015: 147-168.
- 2015. ‘Tuan Guru, Politik dan Kekerasan Ritual dalam Konflik Nahdlatul Wathan di Lombok Nusa Tenggara Barat’ Teologia, Vol. 26, No. 2 Juli-Des 2015: 242-268
- Hamdi, Saipul & B.J. Smith (2012), ‘Sisters, militias and Islam in conflict: questioning ‘reconciliation’ in Nahdlatul Wathan, Lombok, Indonesia,’ Contemporary Islam: Dynamics of Muslim Life, Vol. (1) 6: 29-43.
- 2011. Ahmadiyah di era reformasi, Jurnal Al-Ulum, Vol. (11), 1: 27-46.
- 2011. Politik, agama dan kontestasi kekuasaan Nahdlatul Wathan di era otonomi daerah Lombok, NTB, Jurnal Review Politik, Vol. (1) 2:130-147.
- 2011. Politik, agama dan kontestasi kekuasaan Nahdlatul Wathan di era otonomi daerah Lombok, NTB, Jurnal Review Politik, Vol. (1) 2:130-147.
- 2011. Politik, agama dan kontestasi kekuasaan Nahdlatul Wathan di era otonomi daerah Lombok, NTB, Jurnal Review Politik, Vol. (1) 2:130-147.
- Hamdi, Saipul & B.J. Smith 2009. The politics of female leadership in Nahdlatul Wathan Pesantren, Lombok, Eastern Indonesia, International Journal of Pesantren Studies, Vol. (1) 3:-28.
Research Interests
- Islamic Education and Pesantren
- Transnational Islamic Movement
- Lcoal religious conflict and violence
- Salafism and Wahabism in Indonesia
- Radicalism and Terrorism in Southeast Asia
Research Grants
- Fulbright Grant (Desember 2018-April 2019), IDR. 238.000.000 “Tablighi Jamaat in the USA: Cultural Integration, Religious Education and Countring Radicalism”
- Hibah Kompetetif Nasional Kemenristek Dikti (January 2018), IDR. 120.000.00) “Wahhabisme di Indonesia,: Deculturalisasi Islam, Radikalisme and Disintegrasi Sosial”
- Hibah Fundamental Kemenristek Dikti (January 2015- December 2016), IDR. 100.000.000, “Tablighi Jamaat di Indonesia: Demazhabisasi Islam, Economy Ketuhanan dan Konflik Sosial”
- Hibah Penelitian Pemda Lotim (January– June 2015), IDR. 50.000.000 “Gerakan Wahabisme di Lombok Timur”
- Hibah Riset Internasional Kemenag RI (July- December 2016), IDR. 120.000.000, “Tablighi Movement in Southeast Asia: The Fluditiy of Madhab, Education and Global Terrorism in Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia”
- Hibah Bank NTB (January-July 2017), IDR. 50.000.000, “TKW Asal Sasak: Kekerasan dan Remitansi selama Bekerja di Arab Saudi dan Malaysia”
Research Fellowships
- Visting Scholar, Religious Departement, Oxfor College of Emory University, Atlanta, Gerogia, US (Des 2018 – April 2019
- Visiting Research Fellow, School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University, Australia (2009-2010)
- Visiting Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute (ARI), National University of Singapore (May-July 2009)
- Visiting Research Fellow – Sasakawa Nippon Foundation, Ateneo de Manila University, The Philippines (2008)