In contemporary Indonesia ifta>’ activities have never ceased to operate. Muslim organisations such as Muhammadiyah, NU and MUI have continued to produce fatwa in response to a great array of problems facing Muslims in the country. Modern communication technologies have become important media for the dissemination of fatwa. Outside the ‘official’ ifta>’ institutions, there are questions and answers on Islamic matters presented in and through various media, printed as well as electronic. They have taken different forms such as Kolom Agama, Soal- Jawab, Tanya-Jawab Islam, Ustadz Menjawab, and SMS-Berjawab. I have dealt
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with these kinds of question and answer on Islam with special attention to Tanya-Jawab programmes in radio dakwah. I have also made a case study of the Jihad Pagi programme broadcast on Radio MTA FM and a discussion about the Islamic ruling on food.
The concept of fatwa has changed over time. Such Islamic Tanya- Jawab programmes broadcast on radio dakwah are important to understand how fatwa is disseminated by means of media. Islamic Tanya-Jawab programmes can be considered as part of fatwa. These programmes give not only information about Islam, but also become a forum in which interpretation of Islam takes place. This can be seen in the discussion on the Islamic ruling on eating dog meat above, in which interpretation of Islamic law is highly contested. On the one hand, the leader of MTA has to provide the askers not only with answers but also legal reasonings on which his answers base. On the other hand, he has to respond to critiques or charges raised to his organisation. Within this context, he seemed to face a dilemma and was forced to take a conclusion which actually opposed his method of reasoning. The theme of the discussion itself is not new, but the question about it is raised within a real context of Muslims’ contemporary daily life of the asker.
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