Ahmadiyya Congregation in the Shadow of Religious Politics: Tensions Between Law and Freedom of Religion

The right to freedom of religion is a fundamental right. For Indonesian people, religion is not only seen as a ritual but also as a part of the social relations between society members and the state. However, the sacred value of religion in social relations is degraded through normative recognition...

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Main Authors: Moh. Fadhil, Muhammad Rosyad Sudrajad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ministry of Religious Affairs 2023-07-01
Series:Analisa
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Online Access:https://journal.blasemarang.id/index.php/analisa/article/view/1829
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description The right to freedom of religion is a fundamental right. For Indonesian people, religion is not only seen as a ritual but also as a part of the social relations between society members and the state. However, the sacred value of religion in social relations is degraded through normative recognition in the form of official religious politics. The policy does not actually engender order and justice. On the contrary, official religious political policies and restrictions on religious freedom raise widespread discriminatory practices that affect religious minority groups, such as the Indonesian Ahmadiyya Community. The purpose of this study is to examine the tension between the law and the right to freedom of religion or belief in cases of discrimination against the Ahmadiyya Community of Indonesia from the point of view of the legal theory of legal disorder. The research methods used are socio-legal with a statutory approach, a conceptual approach, and a critical legal study approach using legal disorder theory. This research emphasizes that the Ahmadiyya, as a sect in Islam, has the right to freedom of religion within the Forum Internum. In practice, the official religious politics subordinated the rights of religious freedom under the control of religious majoritarianism. However, empirical facts show that the multireligious social context of Indonesian society places the situation in a state of irregularity. Through the disorder of law theory, Sampford opens the horizons of the legal paradigm, showing that seeing and answering various irregularities cannot be done through the lens of order.
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spelling doaj.art-199f36d0328648b982a1b1b5f2c373fc2024-01-26T03:16:27ZengMinistry of Religious AffairsAnalisa2502-54652621-71202023-07-0181214010.18784/analisa.v8i1.1829505Ahmadiyya Congregation in the Shadow of Religious Politics: Tensions Between Law and Freedom of ReligionMoh. Fadhil0Muhammad Rosyad Sudrajad1IAIN PontianakHigher Institute of Islamic Studies Giza, EgyptThe right to freedom of religion is a fundamental right. For Indonesian people, religion is not only seen as a ritual but also as a part of the social relations between society members and the state. However, the sacred value of religion in social relations is degraded through normative recognition in the form of official religious politics. The policy does not actually engender order and justice. On the contrary, official religious political policies and restrictions on religious freedom raise widespread discriminatory practices that affect religious minority groups, such as the Indonesian Ahmadiyya Community. The purpose of this study is to examine the tension between the law and the right to freedom of religion or belief in cases of discrimination against the Ahmadiyya Community of Indonesia from the point of view of the legal theory of legal disorder. The research methods used are socio-legal with a statutory approach, a conceptual approach, and a critical legal study approach using legal disorder theory. This research emphasizes that the Ahmadiyya, as a sect in Islam, has the right to freedom of religion within the Forum Internum. In practice, the official religious politics subordinated the rights of religious freedom under the control of religious majoritarianism. However, empirical facts show that the multireligious social context of Indonesian society places the situation in a state of irregularity. Through the disorder of law theory, Sampford opens the horizons of the legal paradigm, showing that seeing and answering various irregularities cannot be done through the lens of order.https://journal.blasemarang.id/index.php/analisa/article/view/1829ahmadiyya communityright to freedom of religion or beliefdiscriminationthe disorder of law theory
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Ahmadiyya Congregation in the Shadow of Religious Politics: Tensions Between Law and Freedom of Religion
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ahmadiyya community
right to freedom of religion or belief
discrimination
the disorder of law theory
title Ahmadiyya Congregation in the Shadow of Religious Politics: Tensions Between Law and Freedom of Religion
title_full Ahmadiyya Congregation in the Shadow of Religious Politics: Tensions Between Law and Freedom of Religion
title_fullStr Ahmadiyya Congregation in the Shadow of Religious Politics: Tensions Between Law and Freedom of Religion
title_full_unstemmed Ahmadiyya Congregation in the Shadow of Religious Politics: Tensions Between Law and Freedom of Religion
title_short Ahmadiyya Congregation in the Shadow of Religious Politics: Tensions Between Law and Freedom of Religion
title_sort ahmadiyya congregation in the shadow of religious politics tensions between law and freedom of religion
topic ahmadiyya community
right to freedom of religion or belief
discrimination
the disorder of law theory
url https://journal.blasemarang.id/index.php/analisa/article/view/1829
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