Managing Politics and Islam in Indonesia

Download or read book Managing Politics and Islam in Indonesia written by Donald J. Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2004. This text examines the politics of Islam and the state of Indonesia over recent decades, during which time there has been a notable resurgence of Islamic political movements. It argues that after the state had consistently worked to restrict and exclude political Islam from power, in the late 1980s and 1990s there was a change whereby Suharto courted the support, and began to incorporate, Muslim interests within the political system.