Sang Pencerah


Sang Pencerah The Enlightener is a 2010 Indonesian film directed by Hanung Bramantyo and starring Lukman Sardi, Zaskia Adya Mecca, and Slamet Rahardjo. It is a biopic of Ahmad Dahlan which describes how he came to found the Islamic organisation Muhammadiyah.

Muhammad Darwis Ihsan Tarore is a youth in 19thcentury Kauman, Yogyakarta, and the son of Kyai Abubakar, the imam of the areas mosque. Displeased with the mixture of Islam and animistic Javanese mysticism, which leads to poor Javanese spending exorbitant amounts of money on religious ceremonies, Darwis decides to go on the hajj to Mecca in Saudi Arabia. While there, he studies what he considers the true form of Islam over a period of five years.Upon his return to Yogyakarta, Darwis now played by Lukman Sardi changes his name to Ahmad Dahlan and begins teaching Islam, preaching that prayers need only come from inner peace and do not require large donations or sacrifices. Conflict soon arises between Dahlan and the local kyais religious leaders after he shows that the direction in which they pray is wrong, pointing not to the Kaaba in Mecca but to Africa. The kyais, especially Cholil Kamaludiningrat Slamet Rahardjo, decry Dahlan as the leader of a cult and provoke a crowd of their followers to destroy the building next to Dahlans house used for studying prayer. ........

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