Turkey, a
country that is very strategically located between two continents, has made it
the center of world civilization that has been going on since the beginning of
the Middle Ages until now. Nothing wrong with the Republic of Turkey is the
second-largest place for Indonesian students after Egypt. And most Indonesian
students here are studying general science which makes it another option as a
student paradise after the UK (United Kingdom), USA (United States of America),
Germany, and other countries. Besides, the Republic of Turkey has a high
religious value based on the historical background of the Ottoman Sultanate
which makes it a more choice as a place of study for Muslim students from
Indonesia. And Turkey has now since the leadership of President Recep Tayyip
Erdoğan becomes the center of civilization for world science, especially the
Islamic world.
Indonesian
students now have a special place in Turkish society. Some Turkish people are
happy with the presence of Indonesian students who are known to have
intelligence and hard work more than other foreign students. But is the
relationship between Indonesia and Turkey only about education? It turns out
that all did not happen by accident but had a series of histories that colored
the relationship between the Republic of Indonesia and the Republic of
Turkey.
Starting from the all-powerful event
that destroyed mankind during the prophetic period of Noah, the US. Where there
was a great flood that devastated the world in its entirety. All mankind
perished, only Prophet Noah (AS) and his followers remained. After the great
flood, the big ark landed on the land of Anatolia (present-day Turkey) and is
said to have now become a mount called Mount Ağrı. Then the Prophet Noah
divided his people into 3 groups, each of which was led by a son. The first
group was led by Sam, who became the forerunner of the descendants of the Arabs
who originally settled in Central Asia. The second group was led by Ham who
became the forerunner of the African nation which still lives in the Arika
region. The latter was a group led by the Yafists who became the forerunners of
the Mongols who settled in Sundaland (possibly the Atlantic called by
Plato).
These
Yafist descendants later became the center of human civilization at that time.
With technological advances that have defeated other nations. Sundaland also
has a wide variety of biodiversity and very rich natural resources. Just like
the archipelago today. Until finally the nation's civilization was destroyed with
a very devastating natural disaster which resulted in the sinking of part of
the Sundaland area so that it was divided into various islands. The Yafists
then scattered to find shelter, mostly going to Mongol territory. This history
happened exactly as told by Plato about Atlantis.
Several
centuries later the Mongol people who were synonymous with nomadic nations
scattered about looking for new areas to live in. One group has returned to the
Sundaland region (which has become the archipelago) which became the ancestral
origin of the Indonesian nation. There is one group called Ya'juj Ma'juj who
love to do damage. Ya'juj Ma'juj have 21 tribes, which in the end King
Zulkarnain acted to lock up the 21 tribes inside a very strong wall. The
greatest king who obeyed Allah, the ruler of the east and west of the world.
But unfortunately, only 20 tribes were successfully locked up, the rest were
left behind so people call them the Türk tribe, which comes from Arabic الترك which means left behind. The Türk tribe then turned into a large nation which
then split up as was the custom of their ancestors. Finally, in the Abbasid
era, the Turks began to embrace Islam and were assigned to protect the land of
Anatolia (Asia Minor) from the attacks of the East Romans. Until in the end,
the Abbasids collapsed due to the Mongol invasion by Hulagu Khan, who was still
related to the Turkic people. But the Turks did not betray the Abbasids and
thus kept the Anatolian lands even though the dynasty had collapsed. After
knowing that no one else was home to them, the Turks began to build a new
dynasty known as the Selçuklu Devleti (Seljuk State) which inherited the
Abbasid caliphate which had been divided into Mamluks in Egypt and Seljuks in
Anatolia. Two centuries later Selcuk also collapsed due to the Mongol invasion
again in the late 13th century
The initiative then emerged in a town called Soğut in Anatolia. Osman Gazi was
based on his dream of reuniting the tribes that had separated after the fall of
the Seljuks. Assisted by Shaykh Edebali who was his teacher and father-in-law,
and the position of his father Ertuğrul Gazi who was the leader of the tribes
and regions made it easy to unite the tribes that became the forerunners of the
largest Islamic empire that ruled from West Africa to Uzak Doğu (the Far East
means Archipelago region).
This dynasty was
given the name Osmanlı Devleti (Ottoman State), after the name of the imperial
founder. Until finally 2 centuries after the incident, to be precise in 1413
Çelebi Sultan Mehmet (5th Ottoman Sultan) had a dream from the Prophet to send
a messenger to Uzak Doğu (Nusantara) as a mission to preach Islam. Then 9
people were selected selectively by the Sultan, consisting of scholars and
habibs, one of which was Shaykh Jumadil Kubro and his son Maulana Malik Ibrahim
(Sunan Gresik) who came from Uzbekistan.
Shaykh
Jumadil Kubro went to Sulawesi while Sunan Gresik went to Champa Kingdom
(present Cambodia) and married the royal princess before going to Java. At that
time the ruling king was Brawijaya from Majapahit who had a wife named Siu Ban
Chi (son of Shaykh Bantiong from East Turkistan / Uygur) who was a relative of
Sunan Gresik. He then had a son named Raden Fatah who was the founder of the
Demak Kingdom. Namely, the kingdom which later inherited Majapahit (because
Raden Fatah was still a descendant of Brawijaya) so that it became the center
of the Islamic kingdom's civilization at that time. In 1479 Raden Fatah was
brought to Istanbul and inaugurated by Fatih Sultan Mehmet (Sultan Muhammad Al
Fatih, the 7th Sultan of the Ottoman). De facto the archipelago (former
Majapahit and Demak) was controlled by the Utsmani Khilafahan.
In
1527, Indonesia experienced a conquest similar to what happened 76 years ago in
Istanbul. The conquerors were both named Fatih or what we now call Fatahillah.
The lands he conquered would later become the capital of a great nation. And
the foundation is still the same, "Inna fatahna laka fathan mubina."
A symbol of freedom and victory. At that time Sunda Kelapa was controlled by
the Portuguese who were carrying out Christianization and territorial monopoly.
Fatahillah (who is Raden Fatah's son-in-law) immediately took action to fight
back. In the name of Allah, he finally managed to free the city and gave it the
name Fathan Mubina (in the local language it is called Jayakarta or Jakarta).
Like Constantinople which changed its name to Fatih City (the last area of Constantinople which is located inside the fort which is now a district of
Istanbul City).
The relationship between
the Uthmani Khilafah and the Archipelago did not only occur in Java. But it
also happened in the Sultanate of Aceh, which is in the western part of the
archipelago. Beginning in 1565, Aceh became the de facto Ottoman territory.
Namely during the reign of Kanuni Sultan Süleyman (Sulaiman Agung, the 10th
Ottoman Sultan), at which time the Ottomans were at their peak. Until finally,
when the Portuguese and Dutch colonization occurred in the Sultanate of Aceh, it
could not be separated from the assistance of the Ottoman, who was then led by
Sultan Abdülhamid 2 (the last Islamic caliph in full power). Because of his
massive assistance, Aceh became the only area that was never controlled by the
Dutch.
Until 1922-1945 the
Yogyakarta and Surakarta palaces (continued dynasty of the Demak Kingdom) were
the last remaining Ottoman de facto areas in Indonesia. This was proven by the
existence of the caliphate banner that was given by the Utsmani to Yogyakarta.
After the collapse of the Ottomans in 1922 many Muslim countries lost their
fathers. The same fate was felt by the Yogyakarta Palace which had to fight the
Dutch alone. Until finally 23 years later the independence of the Republic of
Indonesia was proclaimed which was also assisted by Yogyakarta. Indirectly, the
Utsmani also played a role in the achievement of Indonesian independence.
Not only that, but President
Soekarno also began to introduce the songkok which is a type of Fes (the cap of
the sultan and the Ottoman aristocrat). Until finally it became an official
object used in Indonesia and some other Malay countries. President Soekarno
also participated in finding Imam Bukhari's tomb which was a joy for the people
of Uzbekistan (Uzbekistan is also still of Turkic descent). None other than
remuneration for Islamization in Indonesia by Sunan Gresik, who came from
Uzbekistan.
In short, Indonesia would
never have become a country with the largest Muslim population in the world
without the participation of the Ottoman Empire. Even though in some historical
records it is said that one of the prophet's companions had stopped in Sumatra
to preach Islam. Maybe if that was all that happened, the spread of Islam had
never run massively and maybe it would only have spread on the island of
Sumatra. And it is impossible to penetrate the 209.12 million people as it is
today.