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Informal Networks, Formal Politics and The Politicization of Islam in Indonesia
This essay is part of a series that examines the genesis, evolution, mobilization tools and processes, impacts and limitations of informal civil society in political transitions, that is, loose groupings of like-minded individuals—those that are unofficial, unregistered, or unregulated—in the MENA and Southeast Asia. Read more ...
When Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, the Christian governor of Indonesia’s capital Jakarta, was sentenced to two years in prison for “blasphemy” in May 2017, it created world headlines. The verdict was seen as emblematic of a broader “Islamization” of Indonesian politics and society that has allegedly been under way since the collapse of the New Order military dictatorship in 1998.[1] Discriminatory laws and regulations against LGBT communities, religious minorities and women; attempts to ban the consumption of alcohol and “pagan” festivals; as well as calls for harsh jail sentences for “atheists,” “blasphemists,” and “communists” have led analysts to speculate that there is a deep societal transformation under way that casts a “shadow”[2] over Indonesia’s “civil Islam.”[3]
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Jakarta’s Christian Governor Imprisoned for Blasphemy
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Known as a leader of religious tolerance in Southeast Asia, Indonesia is beginning to feel the pull of its staunch Islamist groups.
By Aria Bendix
Jakarta’s outgoing governor, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, was found guilty of blasphemy on Tuesday and sentenced to two years in jail following comments he made regarding the Koran, the central religious text of Islam. The maximum sentence for blasphemy in Indonesia is five years in prison. While staunch Islamist groups pushed for Purnama to receive the full sentence, prosecutors asked for a conditional sentence of two years’ probation. Purnama’s lawyer says the governor plans to appeal the court’s ruling.
While on a work trip late last year, Purnama claimed that Jakarta’s Islamic leaders were misrepresenting a principle in the Koran for political gains. The verse in question, which comes from the fifth chapter of the Koran, suggests that Muslims should not have non-Muslim leaders. Purnama implied that his opponents were using the verse to discriminate against Christian candidates like himself. He later apologized for the comments, but did not admit to any wrongdoing.
In a statement to the court, head judge Dwiarso Budi Santiarto described Purnama’s offense