Islam, Politics and Change

The Indonesian Experience after the Fall of Suharto

Kees van Dijk, Nico Kaptein

• Publisher: Leiden University Press
• Year: 2016
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• eBook ISBN:
  9789400602311
• Subtopic: Democracy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

"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?"

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyrights
• Contents
• List of Tables and Figures
• List of Illustrations
• Introduction, Kees van Dijk and Nico J.G. Kaptein
• Part I. ISLAMIC POLITICAL PARTIES AND SOCIO-RELIGIOUS ORGANISATIONS, Kees van Dijk
• Part 2. SHARIA-BASED LEGISLATION AND THE LEGAL POSITION OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN, Kees van Dijk
• Part 3. SHARIA AND COUNTERCULTURE IN ACEH, Kees van Dijk
• Bibliography
• Glossary
• About the Authors
• Index