THE POLITICS OF A LOCAL SUFISM IN CONTEMPORARY INDONESIA A Closed Look at The Shiddiqiyyah Tarekat Rizqa Ahmadi IAIN Tulungagung, Indonesia rizqaahmadi@iain-tulungagung.ac.id Abstract This article discusses the politics of local Suf group (tarekat) in Indonesia, the Shiddiqiyyah. It addresses the locality of Shiddiqiyah tarekat and its politics during New Order Indonesia and following the fall of the regime. It is argued that the Shiddiqiyah, a local tarekat with its roots in East Java and later successfully welcomes national reputation, is an example of a tarekat that utilizes nationalistic slogan to expand its infuence as well as to protect the tarekat from heretic accusation. Through a series of intensive feldwork, the article argues that the Shiddiqiyyah has successfully maintained ideological patronage to the New Order Indonesia through nationalistic slogan which has been a core value of the group. The doctrine of nationalism has been translated in Suf and Javanese idioms and become fundamental doctrine of the Shiddiqiyyah. [Artikel ini mengkaji tentang dimensi politik dalam salah satu kelompok tarekat lokal bernama Shiddiqiyyah. Secara spesifk, studi ini fokus pada era Orde Baru dan pasca ketumbangannya sebagai bagian penting bahwa Tarekat Shiddiqiyyah mampu menunjukkan eksistensi di tengah rezim yang sensitif dan represif. Dapat dikatakan bahwa Tarekat Shiddiqiyah—yang berakar di Jawa Timur dan kemudian mendapatkan reputasi nasional itu—adalah contoh tarekat yang berhasil memanfaatkan slogan nasionalisme sebagai DOI: 10.21274/epis.2021.16.1.59-82