Your knowledge of Islam, Islamic society, and Islam in Indonesia is a bit limited, which explains why you make these statements.
The most prestigious university for Islamic learning in the world is not in Saudi Arabia, it’s the 1048-year-old Al-Azhar university in Egypt.
Unlike the New Testament where the original manuscript in Hebrew was lost to time (the oldest copy is the translation in Koine Greek), the Quran was written in Arabic and traceable directly to Muhammad himself. By tradition every translated Quran is accompanied by the original Arabic. If you’re not satisfied with the translation, you are free to learn Arabic and translate it yourself. There is no such thing as an ‘authoritative’ translation.
The largest Islamic organization in Indonesia with approximately 90 million members is Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), established in 1926 by traditionalist Indonesian clerics in response to the growing Wahhabism a.k.a. Salafism in Saudi Arabia and other modern interpretations of Islam. Its rival is the Muhammadiyah, a 50 million-strong modernist proto-Wahhabist organization established in 1912. The third biggest player is the Partai Keadilan Sejahtera, established by University Students in the height of the reform movement in 1998. They are inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood movement in Egypt. The names you mentioned are loud people who often make the news, but in the grand scheme of things they’re small potatoes.
As for USA, regulatory struggles around establishment of Mosques is not an interesting subject that news media like to pick on. There was zero news about that Masjid in my town. Occasionally there would be coverage when a conservative karen publicly complains about a Mosque in her neighborhood, but it doesn’t happen often.
Thank you for your patronizing statements and explanations. I will dismantle your arguments in several easy steps.
I did not mention the most prestigious Islamic university in the world, but the most prominent Islamic university in KSA. How many students in Al Azhar is from Indonesia? Not many, I can remember Gus Dur and Abdul Somad at first hand. Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University is a serious propaganda machine funded with serious money, not some Trump university. How much is LIPIA, an arm of the mentioned Saudi university, important for KSA says the fact that King Salman offered to Jokowi an increase of the number of scholarships as a form of "help" to Indonesia during his last visit.
The argument that I have to know Arabic to know Quran is interesting. This means that Arabic speaking Jews and Christians better understand the Quran than some outsider who does not speak Arabic. Again, irrelevant. For the masses, it will be important what the priest/imam says, and he will speak as he is trained/taught. I will remind you that the Bible was on Latin, the language not known to the wider public, and all interpretation was by the clergy, controlling the narrative. This was until Martin Luter translated the Bible in 1522, meaning 11-12 centuries of Bible interpretation was trough and exclusively by the Church, simply because almost nobody could read the content.
If you are intellectually curious you should know the history of Islam first before reading the Quran. I recommend you the "Sirat Rasul Allah/Life of Muhammad", by Ibn Ishak from the 8 century so you can complete your knowledge. I suppose you did not have it the school.
So the most important is who controls the narrative, not what is in the books.
On top of it, KSA controls most of the translations to English (Quran, Sahih-al Bukhari, Sahih Muslim and many others) and their interpretations, footnotes, comments etc.
The argument about the size of MUI, NU-again, irrelevant. Indonesia had the third communist party in the world with 3 million active members, and now there are no traces of that. What was yesterday is not a guarantee for tomorrow. When enough religious radicals infiltrate these organizations, government, they will just simply take them over, as they started from the Indonesian universities student organizations. You do not need many people to make a change and start steering the public opinion if these people are loud and devoted to the cause.
The narrative in Indonesia goes, heard from my Muslim friends- Saudis are obedient to God, they live wealthy and do not work, you be pious as them and you will have the same destiny. The country that you have left will be much different in the future.
Do not worry about my knowledge of Indonesian history, is for sure on par with yours, and probably above.