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This month’s newsletter features three contentious issues that have emerged in Indonesia’s 2019 elections: contesting the state ideology of Pancasila, disputing the proposed bill to eradicate sexual violence, and interpreting Jokowi’s vice-presidential candidate. Other articles discuss the politics of religion in Malaysia and village revitalization in East Nusa Tenggara.

Recent debates on the five principles of Pancasila should worry those advocating religious freedom, as Islamists in both the incumbent’s and challenger’s camps have tried to appropriate Indonesia’s state ideology. The rhetoric of some Islamic-leaning parties even implies Pancasila cannot reject sharia-based regulations. (English and Indonesian)
 

The recent polemic over the bill on the Elimination of Sexual Violence (RUU P-KS) shows yet another contestation over gender equality and regulating sexuality in Indonesia. While the bill’s supporters base their advocacy on feminist legal theory, its opponents predicate their opposition on a view that the bill is underpinned by what they see as secular values. (Indonesian)
 

Ma’ruf Amin’s vice-presidential candidacy in Indonesia’s 2019 presidential election will be a test for the so-called inclusion-moderation thesis. The thesis says that accommodating extreme or conservative figures or parties in democratic institutions and electoral races will compel them to eschew exclusive platforms and pursue moderation. (English)
 

Dominant discourse tends to locate the tension between aspirations of conservative Muslims and liberal rights’ advocates as existing outside of the modern legal system. This review of Tamir Moustafa’s 2018 book Constituting Religion: Islam, Liberal Rights and the Malaysian State argues that the modern legal system has instead exacerbated the already polarizing discourse on the issue. (Indonesian)

Generated by Mollo youth from Timor, East Nusa Tenggara, Lakoat.Kujawas is a community that aims to empower villagers by developing literacy and entrepreneurial skills based on local, traditional values in the face of inevitable imposition of modernization. This article reviews its co-founder Dicky Senda’s talk at the CRCS-ICRS Wednesday Forum. (Indonesian)










March 6: Dealing with the Unquiet Dead in Postwar Vietnam – Shaun Malarney
February 27: Reviving Indigenous Religions through Heterotopic Tourism – Nur Nanung Widiyanto
February 20: Chinese Deity Statue Disputed in Tuban, East Java – Evi Lina Sutrisno
February 13: Artificial Intelligence and the Frontiers of Religiosity – Takeshi Kimura
February 9: Coming Back to Islam through Buddhism – Mohammad Zaim

CRCS Newsletter of February 2019



The Center for Religious and Cross-cultural Studies (CRCS) is a Master's Degree program in Religious Studies and a research center at the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Studies, Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM).
 
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