<![CDATA[This study begins from the issuance of the Decision of the Eighth National Ijtima’ of the Fatwa Commission of the Indonesian Ulema Council Number 02/Ijtima’ Ulama/VIII/2024 on Guidelines for Interreligious Relations, particularly the section on the jurisprudence of tolerance in the celebration of other religions’ holy days. This document is important to examine because it contains formulations that open space for respect, religious freedom, social cooperation, and the prohibition of degrading other religions, while at the same time setting limits on holy day greetings, the use of religious attributes, and the coercion of religious expression. Therefore, this article aims to explain the construction of the limits of religious tolerance in the decision and to analyse it through John Rawls’s theory of public reason. This study employs a qualitative approach based on library research and normative-conceptual document analysis, with the MUI Ijtima’ Ulama Decision as the primary source. The analysis focuses on the relationship between religious reasons, ritual boundaries, and the need for shared life in a plural society. The findings show that the limits of tolerance in the MUI decision are constructed through three layers of norms, namely the recognition of religious freedom, the opening of space for social cooperation, and restrictions on the mixing of creed, worship, symbols, and ritual expressions. Within the framework of public reason, reasons concerning religious freedom, the prohibition of insult, social cooperation, and the rejection of coercion have broader public force, while the prohibition of holy day greetings and attributes rests more strongly on the internal rationality of Muslims. This article argues that the MUI decision should be read as a normative text that produces differentiation between social respect, public cooperation, and ritual participation.]]>
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