Islam, Politics and Change
The Indonesian Experience After the Fall of Suharto
Published on 1. January 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-90-8728-238-7 (ISBN)
Description
After violent protests across the country had forced President Suharto to step down in 1998, Indonesia successfully made the transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy. For the first time in forty years Islamic parties and organizations - including some inspired by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood - were free to propagate their ways of thinking. The new government also succeeded in negotiating an end to a separatist rebellion in Aceh, making the province the only region in Indonesia permitted to draft its own Islamic legislation. In this book Indonesian scholars affiliated with Islamic universities as well as Dutch researchers investigate what has happened since the transition. They explore what the consequences are of the growing influence of orthodoxy and radicalism, which - while already visible prior to 1998 - has only grown stronger. How did political and religious relations change? How were the lives of women and their legal position affected? Furthermore, what are the ramifications for religious minorities?
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Persons
Kees van Dijk is Emeritus Professor of the History of Modern Islam in Indonesia at Leiden University.
Nico J.G. Kaptein teaches Islamic Studies at Leiden University and has held research fellowships in Singapore and Berlin. He is South-east Asia editor for the 3rd edition of the authoritative Encyclopaedia of Islam.
Nico J.G. Kaptein teaches Islamic Studies at Leiden University and has held research fellowships in Singapore and Berlin. He is South-east Asia editor for the 3rd edition of the authoritative Encyclopaedia of Islam.
Content
List of Tables and Figures
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Kees van Dijk and Nico J.G. Kaptein
Part 1: Islamic Political Parties and Socio-Religious
Organisations
Kees van Dijk
1 A Study of the Internal Dynamics of the Prosperous Justice Party and Jamaah Tarbiyah
Ahmad-Norma Permata
2 The Mosque as the Religious Sphere: Looking at the Conflict over the Al Muttaqun Mosque
Syaifudin Zuhri
3 Enforcing Religious Freedom in Indonesia: Muslim Elites and the Ahmadiyah Controversy after the 2011 Cikeusik Clash
Bastiaan Scherpen
Part 2: Sharia-Based Legislation and the Legal Position of Women and Children
Kees van Dijk
4 Sharia-Based Laws: The Legal Position of Women and Children in Banten and West Java
Euis Nurlaelawati
5 The Islamic Court of Bulukumba and Women's Access to Divorce and Post-Divorce Rights
Stijn van Huis
6 Women in Local Politics: The Byelaw on Prostitution in Bantul
Muhammad Latif Fauzi
Part 3: Sharia and Counterculture in Aceh
Kees van Dijk
7 Neo-Sufism, Shariatism, and Ulama Politics: Abuya Shaykh Amran Waly and the Tauhid-Tasawuf Movement in Aceh
Moch Nur Ichwan
8 Cultural Resistance to Shariatism in Aceh
Reza Idria
9 Images of Violence and Piety in Aceh
David Kloos
Bibliography
Glossary
About the Authors
Index
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Kees van Dijk and Nico J.G. Kaptein
Part 1: Islamic Political Parties and Socio-Religious
Organisations
Kees van Dijk
1 A Study of the Internal Dynamics of the Prosperous Justice Party and Jamaah Tarbiyah
Ahmad-Norma Permata
2 The Mosque as the Religious Sphere: Looking at the Conflict over the Al Muttaqun Mosque
Syaifudin Zuhri
3 Enforcing Religious Freedom in Indonesia: Muslim Elites and the Ahmadiyah Controversy after the 2011 Cikeusik Clash
Bastiaan Scherpen
Part 2: Sharia-Based Legislation and the Legal Position of Women and Children
Kees van Dijk
4 Sharia-Based Laws: The Legal Position of Women and Children in Banten and West Java
Euis Nurlaelawati
5 The Islamic Court of Bulukumba and Women's Access to Divorce and Post-Divorce Rights
Stijn van Huis
6 Women in Local Politics: The Byelaw on Prostitution in Bantul
Muhammad Latif Fauzi
Part 3: Sharia and Counterculture in Aceh
Kees van Dijk
7 Neo-Sufism, Shariatism, and Ulama Politics: Abuya Shaykh Amran Waly and the Tauhid-Tasawuf Movement in Aceh
Moch Nur Ichwan
8 Cultural Resistance to Shariatism in Aceh
Reza Idria
9 Images of Violence and Piety in Aceh
David Kloos
Bibliography
Glossary
About the Authors
Index