What happened to the smiling face of Indonesian Islam? : Muslim intellectualism and the conservative turn in post-Suharto Indonesia

• Main Author: Bruinessen, Martin Van.
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Working Paper
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/94249; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/7533
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The transition from authoritarian to democratic rule in Indonesia has been accompanied by the apparent decline of the liberal Muslim discourse that was dominant during the 1970s and 1980s and the increasing prominence of Islamist and fundamentalist interpretations of Islam. This paper attempts to go...