“We are on the brink of a comprehensive Islamicization of Indonesia.” And it is happening there, as elsewhere, because the hardliners present themselves as the exponents of “pure Islam,” and face no large-scale challenge to their doing so — even from Abdurrahman Wahid, who shows up later in this piece. “Sliding Towards Conservative Islam: Indonesia’s … Continue reading Sliding Towards Sharia: Indonesia’s Secular State Under Siege