Indonesian Ideas Of Reform From Santri Political Ijtihad

Abstract

The following article describes the notion of political Islam regarding state building in post-reform Indonesia. This article comes against the backdrop of academic anxiety about the separation between the tradition of Islamic studies on the one hand and political and state studies on the other hand which is stuck in making typologies. The main focus of this paper is the political ideas of Indonesian Santri regarding the post-reform Indonesian state. The main issues studied in this article are the image of the post-reform Indonesian state in the thoughts of Santri figures and how the contribution of the political thoughts of the figures in the effort to create a prosperous state and society. The basic framework of thought used to study the political thought of Santri in this paper is the sociology of knowledge which involves three dimensions, namely internalization, objectification, and externalization. The working of the three steps of the three dimensions is carried out simultaneously. An important finding from this article is in the views of Santri that the post-reform Indonesian state structure is a state whose position is the servant of the people and those who have sovereignty are the people. Such political thinking makes an important contribution to the realization of a prosperous state.