Law and Religion in Indonesia
Title | Law and Religion in Indonesia PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Crouch |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 282 |
Release | 2013-11-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134508360 |
Understanding and managing inter-religious relations, particularly between Muslims and Christians, presents a challenge for states around the world. This book investigates legal disputes between religious communities in the world’s largest majority-Muslim, democratic country, Indonesia. It considers how the interaction between state and religion has influenced relations between religious communities in the transition to democracy. The book presents original case studies based on empirical field research of court disputes in West Java, a majority-Muslim province with a history of radical Islam. These include criminal court cases, as well as cases of judicial review, relating to disputes concerning religious education, permits for religious buildings and the crime of blasphemy. The book argues that the democratic law reform process has been influenced by radical Islamists because of the politicization of religion under democracy and the persistence of fears of Christianization. It finds that disputes have been localized through the decentralization of power and exacerbated by the central government’s ambivalent attitude towards radical Islamists who disregard the rule of law. Examining the challenge facing governments to accommodate minorities and manage religious pluralism, the book furthers understanding of state-religion relations in the Muslim world. This accessible and engaging book is of interest to students and scholars of law and society in Southeast Asia, was well as Islam and the state, and the legal regulation of religious diversity.
Religion and Regulation in Indonesia
Title | Religion and Regulation in Indonesia PDF eBook |
Author | Ismatu Ropi |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2017-01-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9811028273 |
This book analyses the relation between state and religion in Indonesia, considering both the philosophical underpinning of government intervention on religious life but also cases and regulations related to religious affairs in Indonesia. Examining state regulation of religious affairs, it focuses on understanding its origin, history and consequences on citizens’ religious life in modern Indonesia, arguing that while Indonesian constitutions have preserved religious freedom, they have also tended to construct wide-ranging discretionary powers in the government to control religious life and oversee religious freedom. Over more than four decades, Indonesian governments have constructed a variety of policies on religion based on constitutional legacies interpreted in the light of the norms and values of the existing religious majority group. A cutting edge examination of the tension between religious order and harmony on one hand, and protecting religious freedom for all on the other, this book offers a cutting edge study of how the history of regulating religion has been about the constant negotiation for the boundaries of authority between the state and the religious majority group.
State Management of Religion in Indonesia
Title | State Management of Religion in Indonesia PDF eBook |
Author | Myengkyo Seo |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2013-07-18 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 113503737X |
Although Indonesia is generally considered to be a Muslim state, and is indeed the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation, it has a sizeable Christian minority as a legacy of Dutch colonialism, with Christians often occupying relatively high social positions. This book examines the management of religion in Indonesia. It discusses how Christianity has developed in Indonesia, how the state, though Muslim in outlook and culture, is nevertheless formally secular, and how the principal Christian church, the Java Christian Church, has adapted its practices to fit local circumstances. It examines religious violence and charts the evolution of the state’s religious policies, analysing in particular the impact of the 1974 Marriage Law showing how it enabled extensive state regulation, but how in practice, rather than reinforcing religious divisions, inter-religious marriage, involving the conversion of one party, is widespread. Overall, the book shows how Indonesia is developing its own brand of secularism, neither a full-blooded Islamic state like Saudi Arabia, nor an outright secular state like Turkey.
Law and Religion in Indonesia
Title | Law and Religion in Indonesia PDF eBook |
Author | Melissa Crouch |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2013-11-12 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1134508298 |
Understanding and managing inter-religious relations, particularly between Muslims and Christians, presents a challenge for states around the world. This book investigates legal disputes between religious communities in the world’s largest majority-Muslim, democratic country, Indonesia. It considers how the interaction between state and religion has influenced relations between religious communities in the transition to democracy. The book presents original case studies based on empirical field research of court disputes in West Java, a majority-Muslim province with a history of radical Islam. These include criminal court cases, as well as cases of judicial review, relating to disputes concerning religious education, permits for religious buildings and the crime of blasphemy. The book argues that the democratic law reform process has been influenced by radical Islamists because of the politicization of religion under democracy and the persistence of fears of Christianization. It finds that disputes have been localized through the decentralization of power and exacerbated by the central government’s ambivalent attitude towards radical Islamists who disregard the rule of law. Examining the challenge facing governments to accommodate minorities and manage religious pluralism, the book furthers understanding of state-religion relations in the Muslim world. This accessible and engaging book is of interest to students and scholars of law and society in Southeast Asia, was well as Islam and the state, and the legal regulation of religious diversity.
Religion, Law, and Intolerance in Indonesia
Title | Religion, Law, and Intolerance in Indonesia PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy Lindsey |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9781138100879 |
2 Between Control and Appeasement: Religion in Five Constitutional Court Decisions -- 3 Faith and Freedom in Indonesian Law: Liberal Pluralism, Religion and the Democratic State -- 4 Legislating Inter-Religious Harmony: Attempts at Reform in Indonesia -- 5 The Politics of Religious Intolerance in Indonesia: Mainstream-ism Trumps Extremism? -- 6 Ketuhanan Yang Maha Esa, the State and the Politics of Religious (In)Tolerance: Understanding Contemporary Religious Life through Past Debates on the State-Religion Relationship
The Politics of Shari'a Law
Title | The Politics of Shari'a Law PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Buehler |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 285 |
Release | 2016-09 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1107130220 |
An original and timely exploration of the continuing Islamization of Indonesian politics despite the electoral decline of Islamist parties.
Shari'a and Politics in Modern Indonesia
Title | Shari'a and Politics in Modern Indonesia PDF eBook |
Author | Arskal Salim |
Publisher | Institute of Southeast Asian Studies |
Pages | 380 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9812301879 |
After the fall of President Soeharto, there have been heightened attempts by certain groups of Muslims to have sharia (Islamic law) implemented by the state. Even though this burning issue is not new, it has further divided Indonesian Muslims. The introduction of Islamic law would also affect the future of multi-cultural and multi-religious Indonesia. So far, however, the introduction of sharia nationwide has been opposed by the majority of Indonesian Muslims. This book gives an overview of sharia from post-Independence in 1945 to the most recent developments in Indonesia at the start of the new millennium.