Whatever Happened to Civil Islam? Islam and Democratisation in Indonesia, 20 Years On

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ID12349249
AutoresRobert W Hefner (0000-0002-9438-699X, Boston University, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume43
Fascículo3
Páginas375-396
Data de publicação2019-06-30
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAsian Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1035-7823 • E-ISSN: 1467-8403
EditoraRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10357823.2019.1625865
OpenAlexW2954473038
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas39
Referências citadas77

As the hopeful dreams of the 2011 “Arab spring” have given way to anti-democratic repression in most Arab-majority nations, the question of Islam and democracy in Indonesia has been thrust to the centre of policy and research attention once more. With some 260 million people, 87 per cent of whom are Muslim, Indonesia is the most populous Muslim-majority society in the world and the third-largest democracy. Analysts disagree as to whether Indonesia offers an example of a successful democratic transition in a Muslim-majority country. This debate serves as the background to this article’s revisiting of a book written almost 20 years ago, Civil Islam: Muslims and Democratization in Indonesia. The article opens with a discussion of the personal and theoretical preoccupations that informed the approach adopted in Civil Islam. It then addresses the broader question of the degree to which the promise of the 1998 transition has been fulfilled. The article ends by examining Civil Islam’s core conclusions in light of recent developments in Indonesia. These include a “conservative turn” in Islamist circles committed to the creation of a religiously differentiated citizenship. The results of the April 2019 elections suggest, however, that the supporters of a religiously inclusive Islam have by no means been vanquished

Civil society · Democracy · Democratization · Islam · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · History · Indonesian Election Politics and Participation · Islamic Studies and Radicalism · Law