Managing Politics and Islam in Indonesia

6 MANAGING POLITICS AND ISLAM IN INDONESIAidentifies less repressive forms of compliance that required a degree of consentand co-operation by the Muslim political community. The book also examinesthe inter-relationship between Suharto’s management of state-Islamic relationsand pluralist challenges to Suharto’s rule. This part of the study provides originalanalysis and a new perspective on recent developments in Indonesian politics.Finally, the book also provides a useful comparison with the strategies adoptedby other leaders of developing countries in their dealings with the politicalresurgence of Islam.NOTES1. Schwarz, A Nation in Waiting, p.174.2. Boland, The Struggle of Islam; van Dijk, Rebellion Under the Banner of Islam;Nasution, The Aspiration for Constitutional Government.3. Kamal, Muslim Intellectual Responses; Vatikiotis, Indonesian Politics underSuharto; McVey, ‘Faith as the Outsider’; Jones, The Contraction and Expansion’;Samson, ‘Islam and Politics’; Samson, ‘Conceptions of Politics’; Ward, The 1971Election; Hefner, ‘Islam, State, and Civil Society’: Schwarz, A Nation in Waiting;Syamsuddin, ‘Religion and Politics’; Ramage, Politics in Indonesia; Syamsuddin,‘The Muhammadiyah’.4. Fealy, ‘The 1994 NU Congress’; van Bruinessen, NU: Tradisi; Feillard,‘Traditionalist Islam’; Nakamura, ‘NU’s Leadership Crisis’; Noer, Partai Islam;Tanja, HMI; Federspiel, Persatuan Islam; Federspiel, ‘The Muhammadiyah’.5. See chapter three concerning literature on corporatism in Indonesia.