Arab views on Indonesian muslims?

Before the 20th century and the 1960's Islam in Indonesia was pretty weird. Lots of syncretism ranging from south east asian shamanism to stuff like Wetu Telu where they only pray three times a day and ignore 2 of the 5 pillars. And then you have places like Yogyakarta where the Sultan has his own sea goddess girlfriend and gives sacrifices to the local volcano spirits. Some of those things survived to the modern day as traditions.

Did no scholars from modern day Saudi Arabia or the Ottoman empire take a trip to Java and come back to complain that half the island was full of heretics?
 
Wahhabism as a movement only became a rampant force in the 20th Century onwards. Not to mention, clerics then would be too busy complaining about people at home (raki, anyone?). Perhaps someone did make a note about practitioners in India or the Malay archipelago back then. But again, it wasn't as if Arabs or Turks were paragons of orthodoxy either.
 
Before the 20th century and the 1960's Islam in Indonesia was pretty weird. Lots of syncretism ranging from south east asian shamanism to stuff like Wetu Telu where they only pray three times a day and ignore 2 of the 5 pillars. And then you have places like Yogyakarta where the Sultan has his own sea goddess girlfriend and gives sacrifices to the local volcano spirits. Some of those things survived to the modern day as traditions.

Did no scholars from modern day Saudi Arabia or the Ottoman empire take a trip to Java and come back to complain that half the island was full of heretics?
Pagan and Christian elements were also kept in Caucasus Islam for a long time. ( holy trees )
 
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