Islam, Blasphemy, and Human Rights in Indonesia

The Trial of Ahok

Bibliographic Data

ID19910494
AuthorsDaniel C Peterson (0000-0002-7119-3941, corresponding author), Daniel Peterson
Year2020
Pages224
Publication date2020-01-07
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueIslam, Blasphemy, and Human Rights in Indonesia (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9781003007814
OpenAlexW2996592031
ISBN9781003007814
Open LibraryOL28065096M
Google BooksXmjIDwAAQBAJ
LanguageEN
Citations received15

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

Blasphemy · Human rights · Islam · Political science · Theology · Asian Studies and History · Indonesian Election Politics and Participation · Law · Legal Studies and Policies · Philosophy · Religious studies · Blasphemy (Islam) · Human rights, religious aspects · Indonesia · Islam and politics · LAW · Religious aspects · Trials · Trials (Blasphemy) · Trials, litigation

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