Indonesian presidential election : Jaafar Umar Thalibs 'Jihad against pluralism'

• Main Author: Farish A. Noor
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103265; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/19991
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

As Indonesia’s presidential election campaign intensifies, religion has become an issue again. The recent re-emergence of a leader of the Laskar Jihad militia raises the question of how and why such conservative voices have made an appearance at this stage.