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This article examines the survival and revival strategies of Hizbut Tahrir, affiliated activism in Indonesia following the state dissolution of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) in 2017. Challenging the assumption that the banning of Islamist organizations necessarily leads to organizational and ideological decline, the article argues that HTI’s dissolution prompted a strategic reconfiguration of Tahriri activism. Drawing on resource mobilization theory, the study analyzes how former HTI activists reorganized informal networks, symbolic resources, and digital media to sustain the movement under increasingly restrictive political conditions. Based on digital ethnography and content analysis of Instagram and YouTube platforms between 2017 and 2020, the article focuses on three key cases: Felix Siauw, Yuk Ngaji, and Khilafah Channel. The findings show a shift from formal organizational structures to more fluid, decentralized, and digitally oriented forms of activism. At the discursive level, key ideological concepts such as democracy, Pancasila, and the caliphate are pragmatically rearticulated in non-confrontational ways, less as state-oriented political projects than as moral and cultural frameworks for Muslim everyday life. This adaptation reflects a strategic response to state repression rather than a substantive ideological transformation.
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