Indonesia, Islam, and the International Political Economy by Mark S. Williams

Author:Mark S. Williams [Williams, Mark S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Ethnic Studies, General
ISBN: 9781351839914
Google: 4Ke8DgAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-04-21T03:25:38+00:00

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The Orde Baru

The uses and abuses of Islam

As an authoritarian ruler whose reign stretched for over three decades, the Suharto period represents perhaps the most complex, difficult, and sincerely emotive timeframe to reflect upon in Indonesia today. The president of Indonesia, between 2004 and 2014, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), delivering a state eulogy at Suharto’s funeral following his death on the 27th of January 2008, expressed his own mixed feelings about such a polarizing figure in Indonesian politics (Yudhoyono 2008):

We recognize that as a person, as well as a leader, the deceased could not escape from mistakes or from shortcomings. No man, even a faithful servant of God is perfect in this world.

Later in his eulogy, Yudhoyono asked Indonesians to, “turn to prayer, and may God accept his (Suharto’s) worship and the charity to forgive his sins,” and for the Indonesian nation to appreciate what Suharto did for the Republic. President Yudhoyono offered no romanticization of the past but cautiously and intentionally avoided a direct damnation of Suharto, and by extension, of a time known as “Kehidupan partai politik yang dikontrol” (when life was controlled by political parties) (Subono 2001).

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