Two Failed Attempts to Islamize the Indonesian Constitution

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6086554
AutoresR E Elson (autor correspondente)
Ano2013
Volume28
Fascículo3
Páginas379
Data de publicação2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0217-9520 • E-ISSN: 1793-2858
EditoraISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute (PUBLISHER • SG)
DOI10.1355/sj28-3a
OpenAlexW2005122099
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas11

In 1945 Indonesian politicians endeavouring to create a constitution for their hoped-for Indonesian state engaged in heated debate about the place of Islam in that state. However, the compromise at which they arrived, the famous “seven words” of the Jakarta Charter, was abruptly erased on 18 August, the day after the independence proclamation, by the committee charged with finalizing and validating the Constitution. Subsequently, there have been two further formal efforts to Islamize the Indonesian Constitution, the first in the late 1950s in the Konstituante (Constituent Assembly) and the second during the constitutional amendment process at the turn of the twenty-first century. Both failed. A comparative analysis of these latter efforts — with a particular focus on the nature and changing content of Islamist thinking on the Constitution and its relation to Islam — and on the differing contexts on which the debates took place, informs explanation of the dismal failure of both

Charter · Compromise · Constitution · Independence (probability theory · Indonesian · Islam · Political science · Proclamation · Sociology · State (computer science · Theology · Asian Studies and History · Indonesian Election Politics and Participation · Law · Legal Studies and Policies · Philosophy