Saints, Scholars, and Diplomats (original) (raw)

Religious Pluralism in Indonesia

Abstract

This chapter explains Indonesia's public diplomacy efforts that link global positioning abroad with local religious statecraft. Indonesia has undergone an “Islamic turn” in its foreign policy agenda over the last couple of decades. Additionally, Indonesian leaders have tried to brand the country as the home of “moderate Islam.” However, the Islamic turn of foreign policy has refigured long-standing domestic concerns about political Islam and ideological and theological fault lines between Indonesian traditionalists and their Wahhabi detractors at home and in other countries such as Saudi Arabia. Indonesia's revamped image of “moderate Islam” plays better with Western governments worried about terror than those leaders in the Middle East.

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