This article is aimed to present Kunto in three different angles: religion, arts and science. Religion here means the thought of Kunto in dealing with Islamic religious thought (objectivity). Arts may mean Kunto’s thought on literature (prophetic literature) and science here may be defined as Kunto’s thought on social and cultural sciences, particularly on historical sciences...
Fight in the way of Allah is not a fight against certain tribe, community or country. This kind of fight is against the way of human thought and behavior which denying the concept of mercy to the entire world (rahmatan lil alamin). When the way of thinking and behaving has changed, the fight is no longer valid and it then should be stopped. Besides, the fight against oppression...
Human being is ‘zoon politicon’ and human being lives to get involved in politics. This classic statement by Aristotles is still relevant to relate to the political system within the community today. Political structure was established to enhance and to fulfill all needs of human life. Due to this, political system may be applied to all walks of life. For common people, political...
This article is aimed at delving into the very meaning of prophetic politics from various angles, and at the same time, criticizing the current labeling of ‘prophetic,’ which is mostly applied to legitimate and accelerate a double operation of certain pseudo socio-political interests. The word ‘prophetic’ should truly rely upon the conceptual nature of prophetus. First is to...
Islam and modernity has been encountering each other for such a long time since the colonialism period to the contemporary situation of global politics in the post of September 11th 2001. The result of such encounter varies, depending upon the complexity of the changeably deteriorating situation of Muslims themselves. The development of political Islam is not alien to the context...
The current international security threat is not solely within the context of high politics. Conflict of communal identity has frequently become one of the real threats. Within this context, the treatment of state actors has not been sufficient. Diplomatic participation of private groups such as religious ones is getting more obvious. This article is particularly aimed at...
Expansion of the area if done a noble thing to reduce inequalities in public services and the welfare of society, especially in the border region Sebatik Island which is directly adjacent to the State Malaysia. In the process of formulation has traversed a long way from 2005 to 2015 Sebatik not yet bloomed. By rule Sebatik already complied with the procedures then to the center...
This article aims to analyze whether the position of women in the domestic sphere and the public from a gender perspective, according to Islamic normativism. Gender equality can be understood as a concept that refers to the roles and responsibilities of men and women as a result of social construction that can be changed in accordance with the changing times. Basically Islam does...
The purpose of this study is to determine whether internet use correlate to change of citizenship norms in the context of Indonesia's transition to democracy. The main theoretical framework is media and social change. For data gathering, 384 young voters between the ages of 17 to 40 years were interviewed in Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia. The results of the srudy show that...
Advocate is a very noble profession (nobile officium). Noble profession given to these advocates incorporate advocates as one of the chess dynasty law enforcement in Indonesia. Law enforcement conducted by advocates can be done in litigation and non-litigation. The enforcement of this law can be seen first of all as a person or a human element to the quality, qualifications, and...
This article analyzes the existence of ‘pete-pete’, one mode of public transports in Makassar as a social reality, delving into the crust of its meaning, its socio-history and the changes of its meaning within the society. Along with the global development, ‘pete-pete’ has gone through multi meanings, not only as one mode of public transports, but also as a medium, an actor, and...
Establishing a country according to Islamic perspective is a must. But the extent to which an Islamic country should be formed, is not considered significant as long as Islamic values are applied. This is to avoid contradiction between the essence of Islamic teachings and the immoral attitude of some Muslims. The differences between the true essence of Islamic teachings and the...
Renewal of Afghani’s Islamic thought was based on the condition of the people and Islamic world, which esperienced social and religious backward. Jamaluddin al-Afghani, together with his Pan-Islamism was able to inspire Muslims and Islamic world to unite and to develop nasionalism among them.
Islam is believed to be a revealed religion, which covers all aspects of life. Muslims all over the world nowadays face many obstacles, both religious and worldly ones. One of them is the issue of Islamic politics, which further fall apart into two streams, the relation between ratio and revelation and between politics and religion. Indeed, both have interconnection. Democracy as...
This research was carried out using descriptive content analysis method with the purpose of revealing the tendency of some local newspapers such as Fajar, Tribun TImur, and Sindo in covering the demonstration of Bersih (Clean) 4.0 in Kuala Lumpur which was published on August 29, 2015 to September 2, 2015. The results of this research show the similarities and differences of news...
This paper tries to discuss diplomatic governance study on Indonesian decision-making and implementing foreign policy. Diplomatic governance is a concept that is adopted from democratic study on how to manage transparent and accountable decison-making policy. The discourse on diplomatic governance is expected to improve effectivity and efficiency of Indonesian foreign policy in...
Huntington claimed that political participation is a concept that unknown in Islamic societis. Indonesia proved that Huntington was wrong, as the largest mulim country in the world, the participation level in general election is quite high.As a studi case, Tasikmalaya even more unique, while the Islamic partyin some places experiencing the trend of declining votes, then in...
This paper describes the existence of state in both concept and political reality in Islam. Discourse on state has been within the study of Islam since classical era. Muslim jurists, normatively position state as dharuriyat (things of importance), while some Muslim thinkers present their ideas on state and the ideal forms and systems of governance, even though there is no such...
Children’s rights are well-established through various international conventions. But, international conventions do not well implemented in Indonesian law. Besides that, international convention is often interpreted differently in Indonesian law. To guarantee children’s rights, the government and society of Indonesia must be effort to implement international conventions already...
This paper tries to explain the practice of marginalization of minority groups and the absence of multiculturalism in Sampang. The preference of the government of Sampang to relocate Shi’i’s Muslim community in the context of conflict resolution, can be read as an attempt to exclude minorities. At the same time, multiculturalism ignored when policy options are taken only for the...
Current conflicts frequently occur in military, environmental, economic, social and political fields. Conflict in the military field usually involves not only the competitive capability of military forces and armaments, and competitive military business, but also in their efforts to strengthen their regional power or hegemony. Islam safeguards both human beings and nature in...
This article outlines the existence of cultural values in shaping behavior of political elites in seizing power or in election campaign process in Pinrang in 2013. In one hand, some people romantically treat culture as heritage for the sake of today and future society to realize and for functioning as a guide in establishing an ideal pattern of community life. On the other hand...
This article reviews the relation between Shi’ah and politics in its real form and structure within political system and governance. Iran represents a government in which Shi’ah has been its political ideology, particularly after the Islamic Revolution of Iran in 1979 and this in turn makes Iran as a country under clerical rule or system of Wilayatul Faqih with Ayatollah Khomeini...
This article explores the issue of the establishment of Pakistan as an Islamic state. Its political process was initiated after the independence of India when the Indian governmental system was based on constitution which ignored the multi-ethnic and muti-religious community in India. Muslims as minority group in India at that time felt ignored and did not play significant role...
Ide utama dalam teks ini adalah pemahaman tentang bentuk interaksi sosial spesifik yang berlangsung di atas angkutan dalam Kota Makassar yang lazim disebut pete`-pete` dan bagaimana interaksi sosial tersebut menjadi fondasi bagi imajinasi sosial Kota Makassar sebagai ruang bersama yang dibangun di atas prinsip-prinsip kepublikan. Teks ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan status dan...