Critical connections: Islamic politics and political economy in Indonesia and Malaysia

Khoo Boo Teik and Vedi R. Hadiz

No 239, IDE Discussion Papers from Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO)

Abstract: This article explores Islamic politics in two Muslim-majority countries in Southeast Asia, Indonesia and Malaysia, by linking their trajectories, from late colonial emergence to recent upsurge, to broad concerns of political economy, including changing social bases, capitalist transformation, state policies, and economic crises.The Indonesian and Malaysian trajectories of Islamic politics are tracked in a comparative exercise that goes beyond the case studies to suggest that much of contemporary Islamic politics cannot be explained by reference to Islam alone, but tohow Islamic identities and agendas are forged in contexts of modern and profane social contestation.

Keywords: Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Malaysia; Internal politics; Islam; Islamization; State; Economic transformation; Economic crises; Populism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-his, nep-pol and nep-sea
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Published in IDE Discussion Paper = IDE Discussion Paper, No. 239. 2010-06

Downloads: (external link)
https://ir.ide.go.jp/record/37932/files/IDP000239_001.pdf First version, 2010 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jet:dpaper:dpaper239

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
Publication Office, IDE 3-2-2 Wakaba, Mihama-ku, Chiba-shi, Chiba 261-8545 JAPAN
http://www.ide.go.jp/English/Publish/Order

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IDE Discussion Papers from Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Michitaka Imamitsu ().