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I fucking TOLD YOU Indonesia would never give the fundamentalists control over the country. Did I not?!
Disclaimer: I don't have a problem with religious parties in general, and I certainly don't have a problem with Islam. But religious governance doesn't fit Indonesia - leaving aside the problem of the people in Indonesia who are not Muslim, everybody practices Islam so differently. It doesn't work to force people to follow sharia when some of them still worship spirit-gods. And a lot of Indonesians, quite frankly, are not into modesty and propriety - no matter what the anthropologists tell you. Indonesia needs to stick to the Pancasila (its Constitution) - non-denominational acknowledgment of religion and spirituality. Respect!
Indonesia’s Voters Retreat From Radical Islam.
It makes me so proud. SBY FTW!!! This man is my home-boy. So is Azra. He's a smart cookie (and he's in my thesis!).
Disclaimer: I don't have a problem with religious parties in general, and I certainly don't have a problem with Islam. But religious governance doesn't fit Indonesia - leaving aside the problem of the people in Indonesia who are not Muslim, everybody practices Islam so differently. It doesn't work to force people to follow sharia when some of them still worship spirit-gods. And a lot of Indonesians, quite frankly, are not into modesty and propriety - no matter what the anthropologists tell you. Indonesia needs to stick to the Pancasila (its Constitution) - non-denominational acknowledgment of religion and spirituality. Respect!
Indonesia’s Voters Retreat From Radical Islam.
On a deeper level, some of the parties’ fundamentalist measures seem to have alienated moderate Indonesians. Although final results from the election on April 9 will not be announced until next month, partial official results and exit polls by several independent companies indicate that Indonesians overwhelmingly backed the country’s major secular parties, even though more of them are continuing to turn to Islam in their private lives.
“People in general do not feel that there should be an integration of faith and politics,” said Azyumardi Azra, director of the graduate school at Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University. “Even though more and more Muslims, in particular women, have become more Islamic and have a growing attachment to Islam, that does not translate into voting behavior.”
The hard-line stance, though, was at odds with the attitudes of Indonesians; most of them practice a moderate version of Islam and were attracted to the Islamic parties for nonreligious reasons. The parties angered many Indonesians by pressing hard on several symbolic religious issues, like a vague “antipornography” law that could be used to ban everything from displays of partial nudity to yoga. The governor of West Java, a member of the Prosperous Justice Party, tried to ban a dance called jaipong, deeming it too erotic, but many people view it as part of their cultural heritage.
The hard-line stance, though, was at odds with the attitudes of Indonesians; most of them practice a moderate version of Islam and were attracted to the Islamic parties for nonreligious reasons. The parties angered many Indonesians by pressing hard on several symbolic religious issues, like a vague “antipornography” law that could be used to ban everything from displays of partial nudity to yoga. The governor of West Java, a member of the Prosperous Justice Party, tried to ban a dance called jaipong, deeming it too erotic, but many people view it as part of their cultural heritage.
It makes me so proud. SBY FTW!!! This man is my home-boy. So is Azra. He's a smart cookie (and he's in my thesis!).
