Fanaticism of “Syekhermania” as the loyal follower of Habib Syekh bin Abdul Qodir

Assegaf in Gresik, Surabaya and Sidoarjo community

Ayu Hudzaifah, Husnul Hamidah, and Farah Adnia Zisykien

Literature and Culture Department, Faculty of Letters
Postgraduate School of Airlangga University

Abstract
Syekhermania is the biggest fans community from Habib Syekh bin Abdul Qodir
Assegaf. This phenomena influences most of moeslem Javanese people especially east and
central java, not only moslem Javanese people but also moslem people from other province, our
governor, regent until president love with Habib Syekh Assegaf. This paper aims how fanaticism
syehermania as community through fandom and celebrity culture phenomena and the reason why
they choose in this paper Habib Syekh Assegaf is the celebrity. The most of people in common
have their favorite celebrity who come from actor, actress, movie player, football player, etc, but
in Indonesia as the biggest country of moslem people especially in java island there is “ Habib”
named Habib Syekh Assegaf who become famous because his group named Ahbabul Mustofa
Banjari. In other country, protestant clergyman, Budhis or Hindu priest, and people are being the
greatest man in religion but they do not have fanaticism fans. Not just know how syehermania
try to make theirself show to public about their fans status, but also this paper shows how they
change their life in daily routine to make other people judge their fanaticism with Ahbabul
Mustofa Banjari and Habib Syekh Assegaf. Its mind they started to have activity of which
usually just hang out unclear after they are joined the show’s of Habib Syekh Abdul Qodir
Assegaf then become fans him. Their activity like a scheduled, like as they always attended for
Sholawatan, do the activity more positive, useful than before and have a sense of cared for one
another because “ Syekhermania” prefers politeness, chastity and non-violent.

Keywords: Fanaticism, Fandom and Celebrity, Habib Syekh bin Abdul Qodir Assegaf, Ahbabul
Mustofa Banjari

INTRODUCTION

Community is a group of people who three elements in communities. 1) Community

have similar purposes and most of them very
fanatics to support actor/actress whom they
proud. Many communities in the world such
as: motorbike group, university organization,
religious group and others. Patrick and
Wickizer (1995) examine a smaller set of
as place, notably a geographically bounded
location; 2) Community as social interaction,
in which social networks and social supports
are crucial; 3) Community as political and
social responsibility, involving political and
social motives in the formation of communal
groups. Phil Brown (1992) said several
important elements of community: 1)
Communities include a variety of geographic
and transgeographic groupings, and
sometimes involve a mixture of both types; 2)
Whether bounded or un-bounded,
communities only function effectively when
they provide social support through social
networks; 3) Communities generate collective
social action, but are also formed as a result of
such action; and 4) Community definitions
change, even over a short time period. I now
turn to examining how these concerns play
out in both geographic and transgeographic
communities.

The interesting community right now is

religious community. Actually, not only come
from Islamic religion but also christian,
buddhist, and etc they also have religious
community. But, this paper examines issues in
Islamic religion especially to Syekhermania
community as the loyal follower of Habib
Syekh Assegaf.