The Fragmentation and Solidity of Islamic Parties in Indonesia: Looking into the First Decade of the Reformasi

by Firman Noor

Overview

This book delves into the background of fragmentation and solidity of Indonesia’s Islamic parties. By examining the National Awakening Party (PKB) and the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) as a research subject, this book exhibits the critical nature of a party’s internal institutionalization, both in fragmentation and solidity. In addition, this book challenges popular perceptions that individuals or actors are the primaries, if not the only, factors that impede or promote a party’s unity. In short, this book explores and scrutinizes the many aspects and reasons for the division and cohesion of Islamic political parties concerning the presence of a party institutionalization throughout the first decade of the Reform Era (1998–2008).

The book gives the readers insights and understandings into the dynamics of Islamic parties in Indonesia’s contemporary politics and contains numerous interesting facts and studies. The first set of sections discuss the causes behind Islamic parties’ inability to maintain the integrity and internal cohesion and the impacts of consistency in upholding the party’s constitution and procedures that ensure a high degree of trust in the party. The second explores the effect of the presence of competent and institutionalized conflict mechanisms on the stirring of an internal sense of justice. The next set of chapters investigate the influence of systematic cadreization on the development of esprit de corps, in which accomplishments rather than likes or dislikes define a cadre’s position, and finally, the effect of commitment to the party’s shared values or agreed-upon ideology on putting the party’s interests first is examined. This is a must-read book for undergraduate students, lecturers, researchers of politics and religion, Islamic studies, political science, political sociology, and Asian studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789819643042
Publisher:	Springer Nature Singapore
Publication date:	04/18/2025
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Prof. Dr. Firman Noor, MA (Hons) is a senior researcher at the Research Center for Politics, National Research and Innovation Agency. He is also the director of research at the Center for Politics, Indonesia Institute of Sciences (2017-2021) and the chairman of the Association of Indonesia Political Sciences (AIPI). His research interests include political parties, elections, political representation, and political theories. Throughout his tenure as Researcher, he has been involved in various studies relating to those research areas and many others on nationalism, borderlands, and globalization. Apart from his research activities, he has also been teaching at the Department of Political Science and the Postgraduate Program in Political Science, FISIP UI, on the subjects of Introduction to Political Science, Indonesian Political System, Western Political Thought, Islamic Political Thought, Islamic Political Thought in Indonesia, Political Science Methodology, and Political Powers in Indonesia.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 The History of Fragmentation and Solidarity in the Islamic Parties.- Chapter 3 A Political Biography of The National Awakening Party (PKB).- Chapter 4 A Political Biography of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS). Personal Leadership: PKB in the Shadow of Central Figures.- Chapter 5 Procedural Leadership in PKS: The Role of Majelis Syura and Deliberation Mechanism.- Chapter 6 The Absence of Strong Conflict Resolution Mechanism and Institution in PKB.- Chapter 7 Conflict Resolution Mechanism in PKS: The Role of the Triumvirate and the Majelis Syura.