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The Politics of Intolerant Laws against Adherents of Indigenous Beliefs or Aliran Kepercayaan in Indonesia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 April 2021

Victor Imanuel W. Nalle
Victor Imanuel W. Nalle*
Affiliation:
Darma Cendika Catholic University, Indonesia
*
E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Earlier studies have examined the discriminatory effects of laws and policies against the adherents of indigenous beliefs—Aliran Kepercayaan—in Indonesia. However, those studies do not show how the politics of law were developed through the prior sociopolitical processes in Indonesia’s legislative history. This study analyzes how and why the government initiated and later put an end to discrimination against adherents of Aliran Kepercayaan—at least in the realm of population administration. Under the New Order era, political battles gave birth to the politics of law discriminating against the Aliran Kepercayaan adherents. Weakening political resistance in the Reformasi era as well as judicial review before the Constitutional Court forced the government to partially relax its discriminatory laws and policies. Nonetheless, progressive initiatives from secular nationalist parties have yet to be taken in order to further ensure equality for all minority—religious—groups within Indonesian society before the law.

Keywords

Aliran Kepercayaanhistory of lawpolitics of lawdiscriminationhuman rights
Type
Refugees in Indonesia
Information
Asian Journal of Law and Society , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , October 2021 , pp. 558 - 576
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Asian Journal of Law and Society

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