Islam and Democracy in Post-Suharto, Indonesia

DOI

10.2991/aicosh-19.2019.54How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Islam, Democracy, Party, Indonesia

Abstract

Indonesia is one of the largest Muslim democratic countries in the world. However, practically, there are many barriers making some scholars doubt that Islamic teachings support or relevant to the democratic system. The purposes of the article are (1) to examine the concept of democracy in Islamic vew and (2) to analysis the phenomenon of Islamic politics in Post-Suharto, Indonesia. The result of the study addressed that (1) Islamic teachings are relevant to a democratic system; (2) there are many Islamic parties contested in the election in Post-Suharto Indonesia, however, only several of Islamic parties exist

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Asep Nurjaman
AU  - Jainuri
PY  - 2019/08
DA  - 2019/08
TI  - Islam and Democracy in Post-Suharto, Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Internatioal Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (AICOSH 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 258
EP  - 262
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/aicosh-19.2019.54
DO  - 10.2991/aicosh-19.2019.54
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