Islam, Politics and Change: The Indonesian Experience after the Fall of Suharto

Kaptein, Nico J. G.; van Dijk, Kees

Islam, Politics and Change: The Indonesian Experience after the Fall of Suharto

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Islam, Politics and Change: The Indonesian Experience after the Fall of Suharto
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Edited by Kees van Dijk and Nico J. G. Kaptein
2016
Published by: Leiden University Press
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The decades-long rule of President Suharto in Indonesia was ended by violent protests throughout the country in the spring of 1998. Following Suharto’s resignation, Indonesia successfully made the transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy, and this book explores the effects of that transformation on Islamic political organizations in Indonesia, which, for the first time in forty years, were legally allowed to campaign and promote their agenda. The contributors to this book consider the effects of these changes on the influence of orthodoxy and radicalism in Indonesian life and politics, the status of women, and the fate of religious minorities.