Nadirsyah Hosen
Biographic Data
| ID | 454159 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nadirsyah Hosen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nadirsyah |
| FAMILY NAME | Hosen |
| SIGNATURE | HOSEN N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wollongong |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8084-7177 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Failure of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia's Strategy in Establishing Khilafah: Advice for the Government Policies
The objective of this study is to analyze the shortcomings of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia's strategy in establishing an Islamic caliphate within the country. This research employs a qualitative approach through content analysis and field studies, which include interviews with prominent figures associated with Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) activities. The findings indicate that while HTI executed all phases of their strategy, they ultimately failed to…
Reforming Digital Mapping Regulations for Preventing Spatial Planning Violations in Indonesia: A Lesson from Australia
Digital maps of the detailed plans play a crucial role in enforcing spatial planning regulations, providing clarity on permissible areas and assisting authorities in ensuring adherence. Despite existing regulations, violations are common, notably in Bali's tourism sector. The Job Creation Law 2023 then mandates accessible digital map issuance for detailed plans, integrating them into online submission systems to enhance transparency. Nonetheless,…
Freedom from Consumption: The Reformist Critique of Consumptive Islam in Indonesia
Changing the Religiosity of Indonesian Muslims in the New Normal Era
This study examined new religious patterns and behaviours in Indonesian Muslims during the New Normal era. This new religiosity is an impact of government regulations and recommendations from community organisations regarding social and physical distancing restrictions due to the spread of Covid-19. This study used a sociological approach to analyse changes in religious and social behaviour of Indonesian Muslims in public spaces qualitatively. Th…
Crossing Over: Hosts, Guests and Tastes on a Sydney Street
Food and eating are material necessities of life and, at the same time, elaborate cultural and symbolic markers. Food is worked from the earth or killed and butchered, it is bought with money and it is masticated, swallowed, digested, and its waste products expelled. It is fundamentally, corporeally, even bestially physical. Yet food is also subject to rules, regulations and rituals that are complex and diverse. That diversity derives from a wide…
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Modern Perspectives on Islamic Law
This well-informed book explains, reflects on and analyses Islamic law, not only in the classical legal tradition of Sharia, but also its modern, contemporary context. The book explores the role of Islamic law in secular Western nations and reflects on the legal system of Islam in its classical context as applied in its traditional homeland of the Middle East and also in South East Asia. Written by three leading scholars from three different back…
Part 4 Constitutionalism and Separation of Powers, 4.8 Indonesia: A Presidential System with Checks and Balances
This chapter focuses on the presidential system of Indonesia. The amendments to the 1945 Constitution have transformed the constitution from a vague and incomplete document rooted in the antidemocratic political philosophy of organic statism into a more coherent, complete, democratic framework for a presidential system with significant separation of powers and checks and balances. The very fact that Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the …
Pluralism, Fatwa, and Court in Indonesia: The Case of Yusman Roy
The interrelation between Islam, state and pluralism is an unfinished discussion in Indonesia. This paper examines an issue of promoting individual freedom to practice his/her belief, and at the same time not insulting the majority belief in a plural society. It takes the case of Yusman Roy on performing the s ala h (prayer) in a local language as the subject of analysis in order to identify the fault lines of religion and pluralism, and to consi…
Fatwas: Their Role in Contemporary Secular Australia
In Australia, there has been confusion and misunderstanding surrounding the term fatwa . This goes both to its meaning and also to the role fatwas fulfil for Muslims, whether in Australia or in other parts of the world. This paper seeks to address both of these issues, first by demystifying fatwa through exploration of the distinctive place the have in Islamic jurisprudence, and second by identifying the methodology used by jurists in ifta (the g…
Can the Muslim World Borrow From Indonesian Constitutional Reform? A Comparative Constitutional Approach
This paper attempts to analytically examine the possibility of constitutional borrowing for the Muslim world regardless the differences in history, system, culture, language, and characteristics. It discusses this issue by looking at the arguments put forth by the opponents of comparative constitutional interpretation and their counter arguments. It will consider materials from Canada, USA, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hungary, taki…
Human Rights Provisions in the Second Amendment to the Indonesian Constitution from Shar?‘ah Perspective
The paper examines provisions of the Second Amendment to the 1945 Indonesian Constitution dealing with equality, women's rights, freedom of religion and freedom of opinion, and then compares the terms of those provisions with similar provisions in the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights, the Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights (UIDHR) and the constitutions of several majority Muslim nations. On the basis that, unlike the Cairo Declaration…
Religion and the Indonesian Constitution: A recent debate
this article examines the recent debate on the position of syari'ah in indonesian constitutional amendments (1999–2002). the article operates at two levels: a historical review of the debate on islam and state in indonesia and a theoretical effort to situate the indonesian debate in the broader context of debates over islam and constitutions. it argues that the rejection of the proposed amendment to article 29, dealing with islam, has shown that …
In Search of Islamic Constitutionalism
This article examines the question of whether the Shari`ah is compatible with the principle and procedural form of western constitutionalism. The article will answer this question by looking at the arguments put forth by opponents of Islamic constitutional law and various counter-aguments. Using the substantive approach, I assert that the Shari`ah is compatible with constitutionalism. This position rejects both the fundamentalists’ and the secula…
Behind the Scenes: Fatwas of Majelis Ulama Indonesia (1975-1998)
N. Hosen: ‘Behind the Scenes: Fatwas of Majelis Ulama Indonesia (1975–1998)’ Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) was established in 1975. Both the traditionalist and modernist ‘ulama’ are represented in the MUI, through which they issue joint fatwas. This article looks at the method of handing down fatwas, their sources and topics, and the relationship between fatwas at national and local levels. The MUI’s operation is intended to be a ‘bridge’ between…
Revelation in a Modern nation State: Muhammadiyah and Islamic Legal Reasoning in Indonesia
This article examines the attempt by Muhammadiyah to respond to the issue of returning to the primary sources -the Qur'an and the hadith -to resolve modern problems. The focus will be on the concept, method and source of ijtihad (legal reasoning) used by Muhammadiyah. The author will argue that Muhammadiyah faces several problems in formulating a method to reinterpret the Qur'an and the hadith and these will be critically analysed.DOI: 10.15408/s…
Behind the Scenes: Fatwas of Majelis Ulama Indonesia (1975-1998)
N. Hosen: ‘Behind the Scenes: Fatwas of Majelis Ulama Indonesia (1975–1998)’ Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) was established in 1975. Both the traditionalist and modernist ‘ulama’ are represented in the MUI, through which they issue joint fatwas. This article looks at the method of handing down fatwas, their sources and topics, and the relationship between fatwas at national and local levels. The MUI’s operation is intended to be a ‘bridge’ between…
Religion and the Indonesian Constitution: A recent debate
this article examines the recent debate on the position of syari'ah in indonesian constitutional amendments (1999–2002). the article operates at two levels: a historical review of the debate on islam and state in indonesia and a theoretical effort to situate the indonesian debate in the broader context of debates over islam and constitutions. it argues that the rejection of the proposed amendment to article 29, dealing with islam, has shown that …
Revelation in a Modern nation State: Muhammadiyah and Islamic Legal Reasoning in Indonesia
This article examines the attempt by Muhammadiyah to respond to the issue of returning to the primary sources -the Qur'an and the hadith -to resolve modern problems. The focus will be on the concept, method and source of ijtihad (legal reasoning) used by Muhammadiyah. The author will argue that Muhammadiyah faces several problems in formulating a method to reinterpret the Qur'an and the hadith and these will be critically analysed.DOI: 10.15408/s…
In Search of Islamic Constitutionalism
This article examines the question of whether the Shari`ah is compatible with the principle and procedural form of western constitutionalism. The article will answer this question by looking at the arguments put forth by opponents of Islamic constitutional law and various counter-aguments. Using the substantive approach, I assert that the Shari`ah is compatible with constitutionalism. This position rejects both the fundamentalists’ and the secula…
Behind the Scenes: Fatwas of Majelis Ulama Indonesia (1975-1998)
N. Hosen: ‘Behind the Scenes: Fatwas of Majelis Ulama Indonesia (1975–1998)’ Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) was established in 1975. Both the traditionalist and modernist ‘ulama’ are represented in the MUI, through which they issue joint fatwas. This article looks at the method of handing down fatwas, their sources and topics, and the relationship between fatwas at national and local levels. The MUI’s operation is intended to be a ‘bridge’ between…
Religion and the Indonesian Constitution: A recent debate
this article examines the recent debate on the position of syari'ah in indonesian constitutional amendments (1999–2002). the article operates at two levels: a historical review of the debate on islam and state in indonesia and a theoretical effort to situate the indonesian debate in the broader context of debates over islam and constitutions. it argues that the rejection of the proposed amendment to article 29, dealing with islam, has shown that …
Can the Muslim World Borrow From Indonesian Constitutional Reform? A Comparative Constitutional Approach
This paper attempts to analytically examine the possibility of constitutional borrowing for the Muslim world regardless the differences in history, system, culture, language, and characteristics. It discusses this issue by looking at the arguments put forth by the opponents of comparative constitutional interpretation and their counter arguments. It will consider materials from Canada, USA, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hungary, taki…
Human Rights Provisions in the Second Amendment to the Indonesian Constitution from Shar?‘ah Perspective
The paper examines provisions of the Second Amendment to the 1945 Indonesian Constitution dealing with equality, women's rights, freedom of religion and freedom of opinion, and then compares the terms of those provisions with similar provisions in the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights, the Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights (UIDHR) and the constitutions of several majority Muslim nations. On the basis that, unlike the Cairo Declaration…
Fatwas: Their Role in Contemporary Secular Australia
In Australia, there has been confusion and misunderstanding surrounding the term fatwa . This goes both to its meaning and also to the role fatwas fulfil for Muslims, whether in Australia or in other parts of the world. This paper seeks to address both of these issues, first by demystifying fatwa through exploration of the distinctive place the have in Islamic jurisprudence, and second by identifying the methodology used by jurists in ifta (the g…
Part 4 Constitutionalism and Separation of Powers, 4.8 Indonesia: A Presidential System with Checks and Balances
This chapter focuses on the presidential system of Indonesia. The amendments to the 1945 Constitution have transformed the constitution from a vague and incomplete document rooted in the antidemocratic political philosophy of organic statism into a more coherent, complete, democratic framework for a presidential system with significant separation of powers and checks and balances. The very fact that Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the …
Pluralism, Fatwa, and Court in Indonesia: The Case of Yusman Roy
The interrelation between Islam, state and pluralism is an unfinished discussion in Indonesia. This paper examines an issue of promoting individual freedom to practice his/her belief, and at the same time not insulting the majority belief in a plural society. It takes the case of Yusman Roy on performing the s ala h (prayer) in a local language as the subject of analysis in order to identify the fault lines of religion and pluralism, and to consi…
Modern Perspectives on Islamic Law
This well-informed book explains, reflects on and analyses Islamic law, not only in the classical legal tradition of Sharia, but also its modern, contemporary context. The book explores the role of Islamic law in secular Western nations and reflects on the legal system of Islam in its classical context as applied in its traditional homeland of the Middle East and also in South East Asia. Written by three leading scholars from three different back…
Crossing Over: Hosts, Guests and Tastes on a Sydney Street
Food and eating are material necessities of life and, at the same time, elaborate cultural and symbolic markers. Food is worked from the earth or killed and butchered, it is bought with money and it is masticated, swallowed, digested, and its waste products expelled. It is fundamentally, corporeally, even bestially physical. Yet food is also subject to rules, regulations and rituals that are complex and diverse. That diversity derives from a wide…
Debate
Changing the Religiosity of Indonesian Muslims in the New Normal Era
This study examined new religious patterns and behaviours in Indonesian Muslims during the New Normal era. This new religiosity is an impact of government regulations and recommendations from community organisations regarding social and physical distancing restrictions due to the spread of Covid-19. This study used a sociological approach to analyse changes in religious and social behaviour of Indonesian Muslims in public spaces qualitatively. Th…
Freedom from Consumption: The Reformist Critique of Consumptive Islam in Indonesia
Reforming Digital Mapping Regulations for Preventing Spatial Planning Violations in Indonesia: A Lesson from Australia
Digital maps of the detailed plans play a crucial role in enforcing spatial planning regulations, providing clarity on permissible areas and assisting authorities in ensuring adherence. Despite existing regulations, violations are common, notably in Bali's tourism sector. The Job Creation Law 2023 then mandates accessible digital map issuance for detailed plans, integrating them into online submission systems to enhance transparency. Nonetheless,…
The Failure of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia's Strategy in Establishing Khilafah: Advice for the Government Policies
The objective of this study is to analyze the shortcomings of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia's strategy in establishing an Islamic caliphate within the country. This research employs a qualitative approach through content analysis and field studies, which include interviews with prominent figures associated with Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) activities. The findings indicate that while HTI executed all phases of their strategy, they ultimately failed to…
Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Islam (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Asian Studies and History (8 works) · Legal Studies and Policies (8 works) · Theology (8 works) · Indonesian (6 works) · Law (5 works)