Salt and Light Analogy: A Liquid Political Model for the Pseudo-Democracy Context in Indonesia

Introduction At the opening of the 2016 Bali Democracy Forum, the President of Indonesia, Jokowi, said that religious differences should not be a barrier to democracy and tolerance, as happened in Indonesia, a country of 1,300 ethnic groups with a population that is 85 percent Muslim. Despite Indone...

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Main Author: Bate’e, Yamowa’a (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press 2022
In: A journal of church and state
Year: 2022, Volume: 64, Issue: 1, Pages: 24-41
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Democracy / Indonesia
RelBib Classification:KBM Asia
ZC Politics in general
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Summary:Introduction At the opening of the 2016 Bali Democracy Forum, the President of Indonesia, Jokowi, said that religious differences should not be a barrier to democracy and tolerance, as happened in Indonesia, a country of 1,300 ethnic groups with a population that is 85 percent Muslim. Despite Indonesia’s diverse population, he claims, tolerance works well. He exemplifies the Muslim minority in the midst of the majority-Hindu province of Bali. Is it true that tolerance has worked well in Indonesia?The description of tolerance that works well in one area certainly cannot represent the condition and picture of overall religious tolerance in Indonesia. According to the British Broadcasting Company, various problems of intolerance still exist in several regions, including instances of violence against minorities, the dissolution of Christian worship in Bandung by several Islamic organizations, and the burning of Ahmadiyya houses of worship in Central Java.1 Such facts certainly cannot be...
ISSN:2040-4867
Contains:Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csab002