Sultanates and the Making of Nationhood in Indonesia and Malaysia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12835002 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hakimul Ikhwan (0000-0001-9881-8860, Universitas Gadjah Mada, corresponding author), Fachri Aidulsyah (0000-0003-2181-6212, Indonesian Institute of Sciences) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 3-4 |
| Pages | 339-352 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-24 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian journal of social science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1568-4849 • E-ISSN: 2212-3857 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15685314-04803008 |
| OpenAlex | W3092439146 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
This paper seeks to answer the question of how the sultanates of Malaysia maintained their authority in the current nation-state era as almost all of Indonesia’s hundreds of sultanates (except for the Sultanate of Yogyakarta in Java) lost formal power. It proposes three findings. First, Dutch and British colonialism had different legacies in Indonesia and Malaysia, respectively. Second, following their independence, Indonesia and Malaysia adopted different government systems, with the former becoming a unitary republic and the latter becoming a federal state; consequently, the sultanates of Indonesia had to submit themselves to the central government in Indonesia, whereas those in Malaysia were given broader space to exercise their authority within a federal state. Third, the sultanates of Malaysia have a two-layered identity, resulting from the convergence of ethnic Malay and Islamic identities that eventually strengthened the Sultanate’s authority and legitimacy in the eyes of the people and the federal state; conversely, convergence between ethnic and religious identity was limited in Indonesia’s sultanates, subsequently undermining the sultans’ ability to uphold authority and power
Colonialism · Convergence (economics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnic group · Geography · Government (linguistics · Identity (music · Independence (probability theory · Islam · Legitimacy · Malay · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Unitary state · Asian Studies and History · Education and Islamic Studies · Indonesian Election Politics and Participation · Law
Palatable Sharia
Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Indonesia
Muslims and Matriarchs
A History of Modern Indonesia since c. 1300
Fitted Sharia in Democratizing Indonesia
Indirect colonial rule and the salience of ethnicity
The First Two Sultans of Pontianak
Islam and Malay kingship
The Political Structure of the State of Kedah 1879–1905
Dutch Expansion in the Indonesian Archipelago Around 1900 and the Imperialism Debate
Punitive Colonialism
Citizenship rights in Malaysia
Waiting for the 'Just King
The Japanese Malay
Islam Observed
The Fate of Nationalism in the New States
| Highly cited | No |
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