Democracy and Islam in Indonesia

Democracy and Islam in Indonesia

In: Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 13

Edited by: Mirjam Künkler and Alfred Stepan

Columbia University Press | 2013

https://doi.org/10.7312/kunk16190

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Indonesia's military government collapsed in 1998, igniting fears that economic, religious, and political conflicts would complicate any democratic transition. Yet in every year since 2006, the world's most populous Muslim country has received high marks from international democracy-ranking organizations. In this volume, political scientists, religious scholars, legal theorists, and anthropologists examine the theory and practice of Indonesia's democratic transition and its ability to serve as a model for other Muslim countries. They compare the Indonesian example with similar scenarios in Chile, Spain, India, and Tunisia, as well as with the failed transitions of Yugoslavia, Egypt, and Iran. Essays explore the relationship between religion and politics and the ways in which Muslims became supportive of democracy even before change occurred, and they describe how innovative policies prevented dissident military groups, violent religious activists, and secessionists from disrupting Indonesia's democratic evolution. The collection concludes with a discussion of Indonesia's emerging "legal pluralism" and of which of its forms are rights-eroding and rights-protecting.

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Mirjam Künkler is assistant professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.

Alfred Stepan is the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University.

Reviews

Robert W. Hefner, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, Boston University:
Democratization literature in political science has few in-depth studies of democratic transitions in Muslim-majority societies. The abundant literature on Islam and politics in Indonesia has largely neglected to compare Indonesia's transition with those in other parts of the world. In this well-written and theoretically engaging volume, Künkler and Stepan bring together leading figures from political science and Indonesian studies to address both of these intellectual shortcomings. The result is the best volume currently available on the role of Islam and Muslims in Indonesia's democratic transition. This important book should be required reading for specialists of Indonesia and all those interested in how democracy might be constructed in Muslim-majority countries.

Nathan J. Brown, George Washington University:
Specialists in Indonesia will see the array of experts assembled in this volume and need little persuasion to study its contents. But those interested in democratization, religion and politics, and Islam will find the book equally rich. The authors offer sober and sophisticated analysis in service of fairly sunny conclusions about Indonesia's democratic present and future; they do so in a form that is accessible and very amenable to comparative understandings of the Indonesian experience.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	v
Acknowledgments Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	vii
Abbreviations Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	ix
Chronology Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	xi
Maps Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	xvi
Part I. Introduction
1. Indonesian Democratization in Theoretical Perspective Mirjam Künkler and Alfred Stepan Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	3
2. Indonesian Democracy R. William Liddle and Saiful Mujani Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	24
Part II. Attitudes
3. How Pluralist Democracy Became the Consensual Discourse Among Secular and Nonsecular Muslims in Indonesia Mirjam Künkler Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	53
4. Christian and Muslim Minorities in Indonesia Franz Magnis-Suseno Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	73
Part III. Behaviors
5. Veto Player No More? The Declining Political Influence of the Military in Postauthoritarian Indonesia Marcus Mietzner Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	89
6. Indonesian Government Approaches to Radical Islam Since 1998 Sidney Jones Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	109
7. How Indonesia Survived Edward Aspinall Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	126
8. Contours of Sharia in Indonesia John R. Bowen Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	149
9. Unfinished Business Tim Lindsey and Simon Butt Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	168
Glossary Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	187
Notes Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	189
Selected Bibliography Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	225
Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	233
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	237

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