Muslim Indonesia's Secular Democracy

Abstract
Asian Survey
July/August 2009, Vol. 49, No. 4, Pages 575–590 , DOI 10.1525/as.2009.49.4.575
Posted online on August 26, 2009.
(doi:10.1525/as.2009.49.4.575)

Muslim Indonesia's Secular Democracy

Saiful Mujani‌
Saiful Mujani is Executive Director, Lembaga Survei Indonesia, and Researcher at the Freedom Institute in Jakarta. Email: .
R. William Liddle‌
R. William Liddle is Professor of Political Science at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, U.S.A. Email: .

After a decade of democracy, secular political parties dominate Muslim-majority Indonesia. Explanations include a historical pattern of religious pluralism, policies of President Suharto's New Order, creative Muslim responses to those policies, a large majority of moderate Muslim voters, and ineffective voter mobilization by Islamist parties today.

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