Managing Politics and Islam in Indonesia

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.

Chapter 1 Islamic Revival and State Control; Chapter 2 State Corporatism and Pluralist Challenge; Chapter 3 State Corporatism and Indonesia under Suharto; Chapter 4 State Management of Muslim Associational Life; Chapter 5 The Capture of Muslim Interests into Non-Part y Entities; Chapter 6 Nahdlatul Ulama; Chapter 7 Intra-Elite Rivalry; Chapter 8 Mobilisations and Counter-Mobilisations of State and Society; Chapter 9 The Unravelling of Suharto’s Regime; Chapter 10 Habibie and Part y Pluralism; Chapter 11 Conclusion;

Donald J. Porter completed his PhD at the Australian National University and is currently engaged at the Southeast Asia and Pacific branch of the Australian Department of Defence.