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Before analyzing the stances of the Indonesian Islamic political parties on women and minorities, it is important to examine, briefly, Indonesia’s contemporary history. The country became independent shortly after the end of World War II. The first Indonesian president, Soekarno, organized the first free parliamentary elections in 1955. After this event, the decline of Indonesian democracy began.1 Soekarno started to limit political freedom and kept doing so until his successor, Soeharto, came to power in the mid-1960s. Soeharto, as shown in this chapter, was even more merciless in this respect.
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One of the most detailed analyses of these events is Herbert Feith, The Decline of Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1962).
Although he stepped down as head of Muhammadiyah, he still used organization facilities to run his campaign. For details, see Marcus Mietzner, “Nationalism and Islamic Politics: Political Islam in the Post-Soeharto Era” in Reformasi Crisis and change in Indonesia, ed. Arief Budiman, Barbara Hatley, and Damien Kingsbury (Monash: Monash Asia, 1999), 173–99.
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Diederich, M. (2009). Islamic Parties In Indonesia’s Political Landscape and Their Respective Stances on Women and Minorities. In: Salih, M.A.M. (eds) Interpreting Islamic Political Parties. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100770_4
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