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Indonesia: Does Democracy Foster Fundamentalism?
The Week Middle East
|June 03, 2017
Why has a nation noted for its commitment to democracy started to resemble a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism, asked Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian in Foreign Policy (Washington DC).
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Every five years since the fall of Suharto’s dictatorship in 1998, Indonesia has held national elections. The world’s largest Muslim nation (87% of its 258 million people are Muslim) is a secular state that guarantees freedom of religion and is home to Islam Nusantara, a centuries-old progressive Islamic movement. Its Muslims are known “for being both personally observant and accepting the nonobservance” of others. Yet in the last month alone, Indonesia has seen a Daesh suicide bomb in Jakarta, a public flogging, and Jakarta’s popular Christian governor jailed for the crime of blasphemy.
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