This article aims to analyse the relationship between state and
religion (in this case, Islam) in political and legal developments in Indonesia
from colonial times to the present, and to determine the model of
Indonesian secularity within the multiple secularities approach. The legal
and political developments relating to the relationship between the state
and Islam in Indonesia are understood to be the products of societal debate
as well as instruments for solving particular societal problems, guided by
certain guiding ideas1 that shape Indonesian secularity.
The paper first describes Indonesia’s evolving socio-political conditions,
noting in particular the emergence of two distinct groups: Islamic
groups calling for Islam to be made the foundation of the Indonesian state
and for Islamic law to be enforced for Muslims in Indonesia, and nationalist
groups that support the idea of a secular nation-state based on Pancasila,
a set of five founding principles. In the second part, the paper outlines
the development of Pancasila as a national agreement and state ideology.
The third part analyses the state’s legal policy on Islamic law. The
fourth part analyses the relationship between the character of the contemporaneous
regime and its attitude towards the aspirations of Islamic law.
The fifth part analyses some state laws in Indonesia that relate to Islamic
law in order to establish whether they constitute a legalisation of Islamic
law and to what end the laws were created.
The sixth part determines the model of Indonesian secularity based on
the societal problems to be solved by the legal and political developments
and the guiding ideas referred to. The final part defines the general boundaries
between the state and Islam.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:36143 |
| Date | 14 November 2019 |
| Creators | Safa'at, Muchamad Ali |
| Contributors | Kolleg-Forschergruppe 'Multiple Secularities - Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion, doc-type:workingPaper, info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-167259, qucosa:16725 |
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