<![CDATA[Islam and other major narrative can be a positive force, negative, aggressive, and destructive. In term of politics, Islam could be one of the strengths of democratization or vice versa. This article explains how the pattern of Islamic political thought in the pre-independence and post-independence. This study showed that at the independence era, the problem of Islam consisted three categories, namely worship, social, and politics. In the old order, Soekarno supported the idea of separation of religion and state. In the new order era, all of variants of Islam and politics supported Pancasila as the sole basis. In the reform period, all components of religions founds its momentum to express their aspirations openly, freely, and concretly.]]>
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