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Islam, Blasphemy, and Human Rights in Indonesia

Author : Daniel Peterson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000765024
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Islam, Blasphemy, and Human Rights in Indonesia written by Daniel Peterson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the high-profile 2017 blasphemy trial of the former governor of Jakarta, Basuki ‘Ahok’ Tjahaja Purnama, as its sole case study, this book assesses whether Indonesia’s liberal democratic human rights legal regime can withstand the rise of growing Islamist majoritarian sentiment. Specifically, this book analyses whether a 2010 decision of Indonesia’s Constitutional Court has rendered the liberal democratic human rights guarantees contained in Indonesia’s 1945 Constitution ineffective. Key legal documents, including the indictment issued by the North Jakarta Attorney-General and General Prosecutor, the defence’s ‘Notice of Defence’, and the North Jakarta State Court’s convicting judgment, are examined. The book shows how Islamist majoritarians in Indonesia have hijacked human rights discourse by attributing new, inaccurate meanings to key liberal democratic concepts. This has provided them with a human rights law-based justification for the prioritisation of the religious sensibilities and religious orthodoxy of Indonesia’s Muslim majority over the fundamental rights of the country’s religious minorities. While Ahok’s conviction evidences this, the book cautions that matters pertaining to public religion will remain a site of contestation in contemporary Indonesia for the foreseeable future. A groundbreaking study of the Ahok trial, the blasphemy law, and the contentious politics of religious freedom and cultural citizenship in Indonesia, this book will be of interest to academics working in the fields of religion, Islamic studies, religious studies, law and society, law and development, law reform, constitutionalism, politics, history and social change, and Southeast Asian studies.

Religious Minorities, Islam and the Law

Author : Al Khanif
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000168565
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Religious Minorities, Islam and the Law written by Al Khanif and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for negotiating the protection of religious minorities within Islam. The work explores the history of religious minorities within Islam in Indonesia, which contains the world’s largest Muslim population, as well as the present-day ways by which the government may address issues through reconciling international human rights law and Islamic law. Given the context of multiple sets of religious norms in Indonesia, this is a complicated endeavour. In addition to amending and enacting human rights norms, the government is also negotiating with the long history of Islamisation in Indonesia. Particularly relevant is the practice of customary law, which puts the rights of community over individualism. This practice directly affects the rights of religious minorities within Islam. Readers, especially those conducting research, will also be provided with information and references which are relevant to the field of human rights, especially in relation to religious minorities and international law. The book will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers in the fields of International Human Rights Law, Law and Religion, and Islamic Studies.

Islam and Politics in Indonesia: Freedom of Religion or Belief and the influence of Islamic actors

Author : Tobias Hoheneder
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 3960677197
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)

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Book Synopsis Islam and Politics in Indonesia: Freedom of Religion or Belief and the influence of Islamic actors by : Tobias Hoheneder

Download or read book Islam and Politics in Indonesia: Freedom of Religion or Belief and the influence of Islamic actors written by Tobias Hoheneder and published by Anchor Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most Islamic societies, freedom of religion or belief is not a reality for religious minorities. Indonesia, home of the biggest Muslim population in the world, is a positive exception in this regard. The country was always a role model for the peaceful co-existence of diverse religious and cultural traditions, but in recent years, Islamic fundamentalist groups challenge the country’s tolerant and pluralistic identity. This book inquires the development of freedom of religion or belief from a political, legal and religious perspective. It analyzes the laws and mechanisms that protect the rights of minorities and traces the role of the country’s most important Islamic organizations and the influence they have on national policy-making. It finally points out possible future developments and how the government can counter the threat of militant Islamism and preserve Indonesia’s tolerant traditions.

Religion, Law and Intolerance in Indonesia

Author : Tim Lindsey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317327802
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Religion, Law and Intolerance in Indonesia written by Tim Lindsey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its overwhelmingly Muslim majority, Indonesia has always been seen as exceptional for its diversity and pluralism. In recent years, however, there has been a rise in "majoritarianism", with resurgent Islamist groups pushing hard to impose conservative values on public life – in many cases with considerable success. This has sparked growing fears for the future of basic human rights, and, in particular, the rights of women and sexual and ethnic minority groups. There have, in fact, been more prosecutions of unorthodox religious groups since the fall of Soeharto in 1998 than there were under the three decades of his authoritarian rule. Some Indonesians even feel that the pluralism they thought was constitutionally guaranteed by the national ideology, the Pancasila, is now under threat. This book contains essays exploring these issues by prominent scholars, lawyers and activists from within Indonesia and beyond, offering detailed accounts of the political and legal implications of rising resurgent Islamism in Indonesia. Examining particular cases of intolerance and violence against minorities, it also provides an account of the responses offered by a weak state that now seems too often unwilling to intervene to protect vulnerable minorities against rising religious intolerance.

Blasphemy, Islam and the State

Author : Stewart Fenwick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315527677
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book Blasphemy, Islam and the State written by Stewart Fenwick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on the work of Rawls to explore the interaction between faith, law and the right to religious freedom in post-Soeharto Indonesia, the world’s largest democracy after India and the United States. It argues that enforcement of Islamic principles by the state is inconsistent with religious diversity and the country’s liberal constitution. The book thus contributes to understanding the role of religion in the development of democracy in the world’s largest Muslim nation. A key objective is to test the argument that Rawls’ thinking about public reason cannot apply to the case of Indonesia, and Muslim states more broadly. The book therefore contributes to emerging scholarship that considers Rawls in a Muslim context. In addition to examining public reason in detail and considering critiques of the concept, the work highlights the fact that the theory was created to deal with value pluralism and is therefore relevant in any religious setting, including an Islamic one. In doing so, it emphasises that Islam is multifaceted and demonstrates the difficulties, and negative consequences, of integrating faith and law in a liberal state.

Islam, the Constitution, and Human Rights

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9786029529524
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Islam, the Constitution, and Human Rights written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Human Rights in Indonesia and East Timor

Author : Diane Orentlicher
Publisher : Asia
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Human Rights in Indonesia and East Timor written by Diane Orentlicher and published by Asia. This book was released on 1989 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7. Freedom of expression

Law and Religion in Indonesia

Author : Melissa Crouch
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134508298
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Law and Religion in Indonesia written by Melissa Crouch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Islam Beyond Conflict

Author : Azyumardi Azra
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780754670926
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Islam Beyond Conflict written by Azyumardi Azra and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the extent to which moderate Indonesian Islam is able to assimilate leading concepts from Western political theory. The essays explore how concepts from Western political theory are compatible with a liberal interpretation of Islamic universals and how such universals can form the basis for a contemporary approach to the protection of human rights and the articulation of a modern Islamic civil society.

Shari'a & Constitutional Reform in Indonesia

Author : Nadirsyah Hosen
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
ISBN 13 : 9812304029
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (123 download)

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Book Synopsis Shari'a & Constitutional Reform in Indonesia by : Nadirsyah Hosen

Download or read book Shari'a & Constitutional Reform in Indonesia written by Nadirsyah Hosen and published by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. This book was released on 2007 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on constitutional reform in Indonesia (1999-2002) from the perspective of shari'a. The study reveals one possible picture of how Islam and constitutionalism can co-exist in the same vision, not without risk of tension, but with the possibility of success.

Interpretation of Article 156A of the Indonesian Criminal Conde on Blasphemy and Religious Defamation

Author : Arsil
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789799705785
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (57 download)

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Download or read book Interpretation of Article 156A of the Indonesian Criminal Conde on Blasphemy and Religious Defamation written by Arsil and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Freedom of Expression in Islam

Author : Muhammad Khalid Masud
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755637674
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Freedom of Expression in Islam written by Muhammad Khalid Masud and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Muslim countries, apostasy and blasphemy laws are defended on the grounds that they are based on Islamic Shari'a and intended to protect religion. But blasphemy and apostasy laws can be used both to suppress thought and debate and to harass religious minorities, both inside and outside Islam. This book – comprising contributions from Muslim scholars, experts and activists - critically and constructively engages with the theological, historical and legal reasoning behind the most restrictive state laws around the world to open up new ways of thinking. The book focuses on the struggle within Muslim societies in Iran, Egypt, Pakistan and Indonesia where blasphemy and apostasy laws serve powerful groups to silence dissent and stifle critical thought. The first part of the book covers the development of the law in shifting historical circumstances and surveys the interpretations of Qur'anic verses that seem to affirm freedom of religion. The second part examines the present politics and practices of prosecuting alleged blasphemers and/or apostates in Muslim countries. The third part looks to the future and where reforms of the law could be possible. Debates on Islam and freedom of expression are often cast in polarizing terms of rights versus religion, East versus West. This volume avoids such approaches by bringing together a diverse group of Muslim scholars and activists with the knowledge, commitment and courage to contest repressive interpretations of religion and provide a resource for reclaiming the human rights to freedom of expression and belief.

Respecting Rights?

Author : U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780160942938
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book Respecting Rights? written by U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines and compares the content of laws prohibiting blasphemy ("blasphemy laws") worldwide through the lens of international and human rights law principles. The laws examined in this study prohibit or criminalize the expression of opinions deemed "blasphemous," or counter to majority views or religious belief systems, and many impose serious, often criminal, penalties. Blasphemy laws are actively enforced in many states throughout the world. Many governments deem repeal not feasible or desirable and justify the prohibition and criminalization of blasphemy as necessary to promote religious harmony. This study seeks to evaluate the language and content of blasphemy laws to understand what aspects of these laws adhere to--or deviate from--international and human rights law principles. A better understanding of the laws' compliance with these principles may assist in the public policy community in developing clear, specifically-tailored recommendations for areas for reform. Related products: Explore ourFaith-Based Education resources collection Discover ourHuman Rights collection

In Religion's Name

Author : Elaine Pearson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781564329929
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book In Religion's Name written by Elaine Pearson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The 107-page report documents the government's failure to confront militant groups whose thuggish harassment and assaults on houses of worship and members of religious minorities has become increasingly aggressive. Those targeted include Ahmadiyahs, Christians, and Shia Muslims. Indonesian monitoring groups have noted a steady increase in such attacks, one group finding 264 violent incidents over the past year."--Publisher's website.

Attitudes to Human Rights and Freedom of Religion Or Belief in Indonesia

Author : Syamsul Arifin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789792128635
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Attitudes to Human Rights and Freedom of Religion Or Belief in Indonesia written by Syamsul Arifin and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Islam and Democracy in Indonesia

Author : Jeremy Menchik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107119146
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Islam and Democracy in Indonesia written by Jeremy Menchik and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-11 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how the leaders of the world's largest Islamic organizations understand tolerance, explicating how politics works in a Muslim-majority democracy.

Policing Morality

Author : Christen Broecker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (688 download)

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Download or read book Policing Morality written by Christen Broecker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Aceh, alone among Indonesia's provinces, has been explicitly authorized by national law to adopt local Sharia laws. While supporters say such laws should promote social welfare and communal harmony, two such laws are being used to deny many people the right to make personal decisions central to the conduct of their lives and the expression of their faith, identity, and morals. One of the laws prohibits 'seclusion, ' whereby it is a criminal offence in certain circumstances for unmarried individuals of opposite genders to associate together. The other imposes public dress requirements on all Muslims; while the dress law is gender-neutral on its face, in practice it imposes far more onerous restrictions on women than on men. Policing Morality documents the experiences of individuals in Aceh who have been accused of violating these two laws. It demonstrates how the laws violate Indonesia's constitutional protections for basic rights as well as international human rights law. The report also documents recent cases in which the Sharia police, regular police, and private individuals have enforced the laws in an abusive fashion. The laws are applied arbitrarily and selectively, and particularly affect women, the poor, and youths. Several suspects have been beaten or tortured. Policing Morality urges Indonesian and Acehnese authorities to repeal the two laws and ensure that all local regulations in force throughout Indonesia, including those purportedly based on Islam, comply with Indonesia's human rights obligations."--Page 4 of cover.