FITTED SHARIA IN DEMOCRATIZING INDONESIA
| Main Author: | Ikhwan, Hakimul; 1. Department of Sociology Gadjah Mada University 2. Center for Population and Policy Studies Gadjah Mada University |
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| Format: | Article info application/pdf eJournal |
| Bahasa: | eng |
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State Islamic University (UIN) of Sunan Ampel Surabaya
, 2018
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| Online Access: |
http://jiis.uinsby.ac.id/index.php/JIIs/article/view/690 http://jiis.uinsby.ac.id/index.php/JIIs/article/view/690/pdf_26 |
Daftar Isi:
- This article argues that the so-called sharia-inspired regulations have been locally fitted through democratic processes that engaged together the elected legislative body and the executive office as well as various social groups. It bases on a qualitative fieldwork in Cianjur, a district in West Java Indonesia. There are three underpinning factors to the fitted sharia. First, it is possible because the discursive elements of sharia that enabled the Islamists to find a local and perhaps diluted, and more moderate formulation of sharia. Second, social diversity with no single group predominating required compromise and political alliance within and between the Islamist and non-Islamist groups. Third, the so-called sharia has number of secular functions related to politics, economy, and local custom that eventually brought the contesting groups to compromise. Thus, the resurgence of the sharia-inspired regulation is driven by various factors ranging from religiosity and piety to the practical and pragmatic reasons.