This article is aimed at recounting how Islam developed in West kalimantan. The writer specifically the history and development of the religion in Embau, a river in the interior area about 700 kilometers from the coast line. The writer assert that proselytizing approaches, religious teachers figures, educational institutions are among the main factors why Islam is embraced by the people in this…
As a strategy of the politic of culture, religious assimilation constructed in New Order has become a concept which is considered uneffective and failure.The post-reformation era has become the sign of failure of the concept of religious assimilation.