| Summary: | This thesis aims to expose, analyze and discover the relevance of Agamben�s
thoughts in reading Ahmadiyah�s cases in Indonesia. Agamben�s ideas call relations in
question sovereignty and life of group of minority and marginalized people in which their
life are reduced into bare life through biopolitics. In the bare life, they have nothing other
than their humanity, in fact, they are deprived of their rights. For it, this thesis uses
hermeneutics. Hermeneutics is a method to uncover meanings behind the text.
When humanistic-etic Agamben�s thoughts are used to know of Ahmadiyya�s
cases, it seems that state has reduced them into bare life. The behavior of state towards
Ahmadiyya of Indonesian history can be shown on two forms below: Firstly, the State has
suspended the rule of law on existence of Ahmadiyya. Legal existence of Ahmadiyya as a
civil organization has been suspended of law. The suspension of state towards legal
existence of Ahmadiyya by letting them in violence of life. The suspension of law
significantly appears in Surat Keputusan Bersama (SKB) tiga menteri, namely, minister
of Religious Affairs, and Chief Prosecutor and Interior Minister nomor 3 tahun 2008,
nomor: kep.033/A/JA.6/2008, nomor: 199 tahun 2008 tentang Peringatan dan Perintah
Kepada Penganut, Anggota dan/atau Anggota Pengurus Jemaat Indonesia (JAI) dan
Warga Masyarakat. The secondly, The State has reduced Ahmadiyya to the bare life
through politics of exclusion. This exclusion can be known in three state�s behaviors:
stigmatizing of �sesat� and abandoning. State has stigmatized �sesat� is based on religion�s
fatwa of mainstream muslim and also has permitted their life in violence. State has
preserved Ahmadiyah by letting them in refuge.
The suspension and exclusion of State to Ahmadiyya has defined them as Homo
Sacer and The Muselmann. As homo sacer, they are removed not only on double exclusion
but also on total exclusion. They are not only excluded in religion and politics but also in
social and economic and law environment. As The Muselmann, they are considered as
horrifying spectacle for everyone. They are nothing than zombie, the death living.
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