The Politics of Islamophobia in Indonesia: Reacting Religius Issues in Politics

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the politics of Islamophobia by showing anxiety that afflicts the political elite and the government in some radical Islamic understandings, so that religious issues become political problems. This type of research is library research, and the data collection technique used is documents in the form of books, journals and other articles. The results of this study are the government's fear of his position as an ideology replacing Pancasila and the application of the Shari'a in every aspect of life in Indonesia is evident in every policy that discredits Islam. The clerics and scholars who preach ideological Islam and lecture content that is considered to contain radical and intolerant elements, are banned. For this reason, the government has launched religious moderation in Indonesia, as a form of a sense of Islamophobia in the government political elite towards radical Islamic groups. So that the government takes actions and movements so that extremism and violence are based on hatred of different religions.