Since democratization, Indonesia has played host to a curious form of ethnic conflict: militant
vigilante groups attacking a small, socially marginal religious sect called Ahmadiyah. While …

uncivil mode uses demonizing rhetoric to build and maintain a base for violently confronting,
brutalizing and sometimes killing those it deems deviant. 2 We show that FPI has not two …

This paper discusses the loss of the State's role in upholding the freedom of minority political
Islamic groups in Indonesia. Political freedom that guaranteed by the Constitution for every …

Following a democratic uprising in 1998, the Muslim-majority nation of Indonesia embarked
on a transition from four decades of authoritarian rule to become the world's third largest …

While scholars of the Islamic revival have devoted attention to the increased prominence of
Islamic law [the shari'a] in the once-secular public sphere, less attention has been paid to a …

Civet coffee, or kopi luwak as it is called in Indonesian, consists of coffee beans retrieved
from the feces of civets, or cat-like, omnivorous, arboreal, nocturnal mammals. These beans …

FPI is one among several Islamist Groups in Indonesia. Seeing through its fierce actions,
people tend to judge FPI as radicals. Some political elites even classify it as terrorist. Despite …

Acts of intolerance and persecution against religious minorities rose significantly in
Indonesia during the presidency of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2004-2014), despite the …

This article focuses on efforts at mitigating conflict that arose between the Indonesian
Council of Muslim Scholar (MUI) and the Bali-India Foundation (BIF) in the wake of the …

The optimism about Indonesia's democratic consolidation that marked many analyses of
Indonesia in the early 2000s has given way to pessimism about majoritarianism from the …