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EAT, PRAY, REGULATE: THE INDONESIAN ULAMA COUNCIL AND THE MANAGEMENT OF ISLAMIC AFFAIRS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2018

Stewart Fenwick
Stewart Fenwick*
Affiliation:
Senior Associate, Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
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Abstract

Indonesia's national ulama council, the Majelis Ulama Indonesia, or MUI, has successfully transformed itself during the reform era reversing its earlier relationship with government. It is the MUI that now sets the agenda on appropriate ways to recognize, protect, and promote the majority faith. However it does not operate entirely separate to the state, indeed, there are numerous points of contact and mutual dependence between this group of Islamic scholars and state agencies.

This article offers two case studies on religious freedom demonstrating different aspects of the MUI's self-appointed role of national mufti. The first case study demonstrates how the MUI has taken control of the high ground of religious doctrine. Through its response to blasphemy cases and deviant Muslim activities the MUI defines appropriate, orthodox Muslim conduct. The second case study deals with the revised regime of halal food certification. Here the state has sought to bring the MUI back into its embrace, partly as a result of corruption scandals. In doing so, however, Islam continues to be further entrenched in state law and regulation.

Indonesian Islam was said to be deconfessionalized, reflecting the nature of the former authoritarian and bureaucratic state's engagement with various Islamic institutions. The changing role of the MUI demonstrates that the state and law are becoming increasingly confessionalized. This change has significant implications for Indonesia's democratic constitutional framework, evident in what these cases say about the enjoyment of the fundamental right of citizenship.

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IslamIndonesiacitizenshipregulationfreedom of religion
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Journal of Law and Religion , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , August 2018 , pp. 271 - 290
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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2018 

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23 Majelis Ulama Indonesia, Profile of MUI: Retrospective of the Indonesian Council of Ulama—35 Years of Remarkable Progress (Jakarta: Majelis Ulama Indonesia, 2010). These groups include the controversial hard-line organizations Hizbut Tharir Indonesia and Front Pembela Islam (Islamic Defender's Front) based on a deliberate program to bridge radical and moderate Islam. See Lindsey, “Monopolising Islam,” 260; Ichwan, “‘Ulamā’, State and Politics,” 49. It is not a mass organization and therefore lacks a membership base from which it might raise funds. See Lindsey, “Monopolising Islam,” 262.

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28 Lindsey, “Monopolising Islam,” 262. There is a brief reference to the receipt of state funds in MUI, Profile of MUI.

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31 Hasyim, 72.

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33 Lindsey, “Monopolising Islam,” 260. At the time of writing the commission structure had not changed.

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41 Hooker, Indonesian Islam, 229–30; Ichwan, “‘Ulamā’, State and Politics,” 49. No fatwa is, strictly speaking, considered binding; the issue here is whether or not the MUI's collection of rulings would have precedence over those rulings made by another organization for consideration by its members.

42 Kaptein, “The Voice of the ˋUlamâ’,” 2–7. He also describes fatawa following a traditional style dating from the nineteenth century and being requested by Muslims from Southeast Asia of scholars in the Middle East, and others issued in the early twentieth century in Indonesia, also following a question-and-answer format.

43 See, for example, Jimly Asshiddiqie, Konstitusi dan Konstitutionalisme Indonesia [The Indonesian constitution and constitutionalism] (Jakarta: Indonesian Constitutional Court, 2005).

44 In 2014 Adams was appointed a justice of the Mahkamah Konstitusi, the Indonesian Constitutional Court. This section draws on Adams, Wahiduddin, “Fatwa MUI dalam Perspektif Hukum dan Perundang-undangan” [MUI fatwa from the perspective of law and legislation], in Fatwa Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) dalam Perspektif Hukum dan Perundang-Undangan, ed. Mudzhar, Mohammad Atho and Yusuf, Choiril Fuad (Jakarta: Puslitbang Kehidupan Keagamaan, Badan Litbang dan Diklat, Kementerian Agama, 2012), 3–16Google Scholar.

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46 Adams, “Fatwa MUI dalam Perspektif Hukum dan Perundang-undangan.”

47 Regarding the MUI and Islamic finance, see Lindsey, “Monopolising Islam,” 264–65.

48 The MUI has a virtual monopoly over the process of halal certification; see Lindsey, “Monopolising Islam,” 269.

49 Adams, “Fatwa MUI dalam Perspektif Hukum dan Perundang-undangan.”

50 MUI, Mengawal aqidah Umat: Fatwa MUI Tentang Aliran-Aliran Sesat di Indonesia [Guarding the faith of the Islamic community: MUI fatawa on deviant sects in Indonesia] (Jakarta: Sekretariat Majelis Ulama Indonesia, 2007), 1.

51 MUI, Mengawal aqidah Umat, 4.

52 The guidelines require that prior to a ruling (penetapan) on deviancy being issued, the MUI must research the activities or teachings concerned, and engage with the leadership of the group or sect. See MUI, Mengawal aqidah Umat, 4–5. This includes a process of validation or clarification, together with the provision of advice so that those concerned will abandon the incorrect thoughts, opinions, or acts and return to the right path.

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54 MUI Fatwa Number 7/MUNAS VII/MUI/11/2005 (July 28, 2005), on pluralism, liberalism, and secularism in religion. Some scholars neglect to include reference to religion, presenting the fatwa as being against “all forms of pluralism, liberalism and secularism.” See Ichwan, Moch Nur, “Towards a Puritanical Moderate Islam: The Majelis Ulama Indonesia and the Politics of Religious Orthodoxy,” in Contemporary Developments in Indonesian Islam: Explaining the “Conservative Turn,” ed. van Bruinessen, Martin (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2013), 60–104CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 82.

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57 Badan Koordinasi Pengawasan Kepercayaan Masyrakat (Coordinating Body for the Monitoring of Mystical Beliefs in Society), known as BAKORPAKEM, the national team is complemented by regional teams and is led by the intelligence division of the Attorney General's Office, pursuant to Decision of the Attorney General 108/JA/5/1984, on the establishment of the coordinating body for the monitoring of mystical beliefs in society. The public prosecutor has a legislative mandate to monitor belief systems and prevent the misuse or insult to religion under art. 30 of Law 16/2004, on the public prosecutor.

58 This provision is arguably the one that comes closest on its face to a notion of blasphemy as it is most clearly applicable in cases of a religious offense. Other provisions in the Criminal Code (discussed in the text accompanying this note) are more easily interpreted as offenses against religion which may, or may not, carry elements of an offense against religion or religious stipulations. For this reason I have described the legal framework as a “de facto blasphemy regime,” as the most frequently used provisions are those in the Criminal Code. For a detailed discussion, see Fenwick, “Yusman Roy and the Language of Devotion.” On the distinction between the forms of offense, see Adji, Omar Seno, Hukum (Acara) Pidana Dalam Prospeksi [Criminal procedure in action] (Jakarta: Penerbit Erlangga, 1984)Google Scholar; Margiyono, Muktiono and Rumadi, Irianto, eds., No Middle Road: A Public Examination of the Decision of the Constitutional Court Concerning Review of Law No. 1/1965 (Jakarta: Indonesian Legal Resource Center, 2011)Google Scholar.

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65 See generally Fenwick, “Yusman Roy and the Language of Devotion”; Lindsey, Islam, Law and the State, 418–19; Olle, “The Campaign against ‘Heresy.’” A study of thirty-seven cases of prosecutions or other instances of alleged blasphemy bears out this conclusion (in five cases the study does not record criminal action). See Sihombing et al., Injustice in Belief, 9–57. At least seventeen of the thirty-seven cases involved Islamic sects. The study identifies MUI involvement in nine instances, of which four include the issue of fatawa. There were ten cases in which other Islamic organizations made objections to conduct or religious practices, or brought the matter to the attention of police, or were otherwise implicated in protest action (including the Ministry of Religion, the Front Pembela Islam, and the Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (Indonesian Mujahidin Council). Protest action, raids on premises, or other violent mob activity occurred in fifteen of the thirty-seven cases reported and in ten of these there was both a form of protest action and the involvement in some form of an Islamic organization.

66 Constitutional Court Decision 140/PUU-VII/2009. Several case studies were referred to in the application. However, due to the nature of judicial review in Indonesia, constitutional challenges proceed separate to any individual cases as there is no nexus between the general courts, which hold jurisdiction for trials and appeals, and the power of constitutional review. The Court is thus not an appeal court on constitutional issues for matters arising in the general courts. Instead, it hears in principle applications regarding provisions of statutes claimed to be contrary to the constitution. See, for example, Butt, Simon and Lindsey, Tim, The Constitution of Indonesia: A Contextual Analysis (Oxford: Hart, 2012), 87–88Google Scholar. See also Fenwick, Stewart, “Administrative Law and Judicial Review in Indonesia: The Search for Accountability,” in Administrative Law and Governance in Asia: Comparative Perspectives, ed. Ginsburg, Tom and Chen, Albert H. Y. (London: Routledge, 2009), 329–358Google Scholar.

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69 A set of five principles understood as embodying the state philosophy, also including humanity, state unity, democratic life, and social justice.

70 This article holds that human rights may be restricted by law on grounds that include satisfying “just demands” based on morality, religious values, security, and public order. Freedom of religion is nonetheless enshrined in two articles of the Constitution, 28E and 29. The first was introduced, along with wide ranging human rights amendments, following the fall of President Soeharto, and the second has existed since Independence.

71 Hooker, Indonesian Islam, 212–16.

72 Hooker, 217–19.

73 Hooker, 216.

74 Ichwan, “Towards a Puritanical Moderate Islam,” 71; Lindsey, Islam, Law and the State, 132. This section draws throughout on Ichwan and Lindsey.

75 Ichwan, “Towards a Puritanical Moderate Islam,” 72–73.

76 Lindsey, “Monopolising Islam,” 262.

77 See also Künkler, Mirjam and Stepan, Alfred, “Introduction: Indonesian Democratization in Theoretical Perspective,” in Democracy and Islam in Indonesia, ed. Künkler, Mirjam and Stepan, Alfred (New York: Columbia University Press, 2013), 3–23CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 21–22.

78 A figure broadly consistent with the figure of EUR 300,000 cited by Hasyim, “Council of Indonesian Ulama,” 70.

79 Margareth Aritonang and Ina Parlina, “MUI, Govt Wrangle over Halal Certification,” Jakarta Post, February 28, 2014, http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/02/28/mui-govt-wrangle-over-halal-certification.html.

80 Hasyim, “Council of Indonesian Ulama,” 70.

81 “Astaga! Label Halal” [Good God! Halal labeling] Tempo, February 24–March 2, 2014.

82 Natasha Erviani, “Religious Levy Costs Queensland Abattoirs Thousands Each Month,” Courier Mail, October 20, 2014, https://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/religious-levy-costs-queensland-abattoirs-thousands-each-month/news-story/c1ebc330573bfcd879f79d3bf52411bc.

83 “‘Bukan Penyelenggara Negara, Saya Boleh Terima Gratifikasi” [Not being a state official, I am permitted to receive gratuities], Tempo, February 24–March 2, 2014, https://majalah.tempo.co/read/144776/bukan-penyelenggara-negara-saya-boleh-terima-gratifikasi (in Indonesian).

84 Direktorat Jenderal Bimbingan Masyarakat Islam [Directorate General of Islamic Community Guidance], “Ketua Penasehat MUI Minta Klarifikasi Amidhan Soal Isu Sertifikasi Halal” [Chair of MUI advisory board seeks clarification from Amidhan on the halal certificate issue], Bimasislam, March 4, 2014, https://bimasislam.kemenag.go.id/post/berita/ketua-penasehat-mui-minta-klarifikasi-amidhan-soal-isu-sertifikasi-halal (in Indonesian).

85 Aritonang and Parlina, “MUI, Govt Wrangle.”

86 Aritonang and Parlina.

87 Aritonang and Parlina.

88 Aritonang and Parlina.

89 See “UU Jaminan Produk Halal Berikan Kepastian Hukum Bagi Konsumen” [Law on halal product assurance gives legal certainty to consumers], September 25, 2014, http://www.hukumonline.com/berita/baca/lt54241d9c5a5ed/uu-jaminan-produk-halal-berikan-kepastian-hukum-bagi-konsumen.

90 Yohannie Linggasari, “Pemerintah Akan Bentuk Badan Jaminan Produk Halal” [Government to form agency for halal product assurance], CNN Indonesia, January 21, 2015.

91 Linggasari.

92 Linggasari.

93 Lindsey, Islam, Law and the State, 135.

94 Lindsey, 105.

95 Lindsey, 105.

96 Lindsey, 108–09.

97 See Salim, Arskal, Challenging the Secular State: The Islamization of Law in Modern Indonesia (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2008), 172CrossRefGoogle Scholar. There has, however, never been a stark distinction between the ministry and Islamic organizations. Members of the two major Islamic organizations, Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah, have enjoyed at different times in modern Indonesia greater or lesser influence in the ministry; see, for example, Ricklefs, M. C., A History of Modern Indonesia Since c. 1200 (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), 375Google Scholar.

98 Moch Nur Ichwan, “Official Reform of State Islam: State Islam and the Ministry of Religious Affairs in Contemporary Indonesia (1966–2004)” (PhD diss., University of Tillburg, 2006), 15. Ichwan here summarizes the concept as used by Niewenhuijze, C. A. O., “The Indonesian State and ‘Deconfessionalized’ Muslim Concepts,” in Aspects of Islam in Post-Colonial Indonesia: Five Essays (The Hague: W. van Hoeve, 1958), 180–243Google Scholar, and argues that the adoption of the notion of Ketuhanan Yang Maha Esa and the establishment of the Ministry of Religion were “the two major elements in what [Niewenhuijze] refers to as the ‘deconfessionalisation’ of Islam in post-colonial Indonesia.” Ichwan, 15.

99 Otto, Jan Michiel, “Sharia and National Law in Indonesia,” in Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present, ed. Otto, Jan Michiel (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2010), 433–90CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at 480.

100 Sezgin and Künkler, “Regulation of ‘Religion’ and the ‘Religious,’” 451, 472. Salim points out that—once legislated—Islamic law ceases to be religious law. Salim, Challenging the Secular State, 177. Going further, Hooker would appear to argue that bureaucratizing Islam through codification is a trivialization of Islamic law. Hooker, Indonesian Islam, 25.

101 See, for example, Lindsey, “Monopolising Islam,” 262.

102 Olle, “The Campaign against ‘Heresy,’” 6.

103 Butt, Simon, “Regional Autonomy and Legal Disorder: The Proliferation of Local Laws in Indonesia,” Sydney Law Review 32, no. 2 (2010): 177–97Google Scholar, at 181.

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105 Eisenstadt, “Bureaucracy and Bureaucratization,” 99.

106 Eisenstadt, 99.

107 Hooker, Indonesian Islam, 243–45.