PHENOMENA AND HISTORY OF ISLAMIC POLITICAL PARTIES IN INDONESIA
Abstract: Politics, coming
back to its
original meaning which
might be defined as
influencing other people
and which is
involves the making of
a common decision
for people, then,
life is never politics-free. When
we are thinking,
we are contributing
in the political life,
how to influence
or how to
be influenced, how to
make a decision in life or how to follow a decision. Politics contain of many
dimensions, one might
think politics in
a negative or positive way depending on which dimensions
he stick the politics with. Political party is one of the main institutions in
the political life which used in practicing the democracy as the representative
system needed by the community. It used as a media to transfer the political
messages from the
community to the
government, as peoples’ media to send their aspiration to the people
‘above’, which existence is influencing the development of the policies of the
country depending on its effectiveness. As a Muslim-Largest country, Islam has
a very important role in Indonesia’s political zone. Though,
not everything that
has an “Islam”
name is able to completely represent Islamic values
and so some “non-Islam” might also represent
Islamic ethical values.
The point of
this article is to focus more on how is the relationship between
politics and Islam in Indonesia by observing the development of Islamic Political
Parties and its phenomena. It will be well observed by the historic-phenomenology approach,
which is describing
and observing the history of Islamic Political Parties in Indonesia and the
social facts that happened in the society.
Author: Nanik Yulianti
Journal Code: jpperadabanislamgg150008
