Posts with tag: Hizbut Tahrir
Jokowi’s dilemma: turning Islamists into civil rights heroes?
Analysis, Human Rights, PoliticsPresident Joko Widodo recently issued an interim emergency law (or perppu) partly intended to allow the government to ban Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI). Professor Tim Lindsey writes that the regulation has ended up forcing civil society groups that are usually threatened by hard-liners into their camp.
Can Hizbut Tahrir really be dissolved?
Analysis, Human Rights, Politics, ReligionThe government's recent announcement that it planned to ban Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) has won support but also criticism, over fears of growing restrictions on freedom of association and assembly. Eryanto Nugroho writes that whatever happens, only acts, not thoughts and concepts should be banned.
Bima Arya and Hizbut Tahrir's grand plan
Analysis, Politics, ReligionIndonesians were stunned earlier this month after a photo emerged of Bogor Mayor Bima Arya opening the new office of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), an organisation that openly rejects democracy and the Indonesian state. Burhanuddin Muhtadi looks at the movement and its strategy to revive a transnational Islamic caliphate.