The emergence of Salafi Islam within Indonesia has shifted the imaginary boundaries ofudIslamic identity. Although relatively small in numbers, Salafis propagate a religious discourseudlinked to scholars in Saudi Arabia. While it cannot be regarded as merely a type ofud‘Saudization’, the kingdom is frequently exemplified as a model for a pious society as welludas pragmatic solutions on how to deal with contemporary issues ranging from justice toudterrorism. Indeed, Saudi Arabia plays a pivotal part in the Salafi imaginary, balancing audhistorical Islamic past with a modernist religious present and future. Based on fieldworkudconducted from 2011 to 2012 in Yogyakarta, this paper builds upon this premise, offeringudboth a description and an analysis of the importance of the kingdom as a source of educationaludsponsorship but also, more interestingly, as a source of religious authority andudsocial ideals, articulated within contemporary religious literature and the movement’sudstudy sessions (kajian). More pointedly, I argue that actors use Saudi Arabia to constructudan imaginary ideal through which social and religious issues are contemplated and comparedudto apparent Indonesian ‘social corruption’
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