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Pen of Political Authority and Religion
Published by PENA KREATIF PUBLISHER
ISSN : 31633196     EISSN : -     DOI : https://doi.org/10.67793/polar.
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POLAR: Pen of Political Authority and Religion POLAR is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to advancing theoretically grounded and methodologically rigorous scholarship on religion, political authority, governance, legitimacy, institutions, and public life at local, national, and global scales. Theory & Governance Critical explorations of authority, legitimacy, power relations, and institutional dynamics. Religion & Society Studies on how religious ideas and communities shape political and social life. Global Perspectives Comparative and international research on religion and politics across regions and cultures. We welcome original contributions that engage contemporary debates in religion and politics with analytical clarity, empirical depth, and international relevance.
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Algorithmic Amplification, Religious Authority, and Electoral Polarization in Indonesia’s Digital Democratic Public Sphere Ahmed El-Sayed Hassan
Pen Of Political Authority and Religion Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Pen Of Political Authority and Religion
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67793/polar.v1i1.24

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Digital political communication in Indonesia increasingly unfolds through platform infrastructures that rank, recommend, and amplify morally charged content. In this environment, religious authority has become deeply entangled with electoral messaging, partisan identity, and the visibility dynamics of social media platforms. This article examines how algorithmic amplification interacts with religious authority to intensify electoral polarization in Indonesia. The article adopts a qualitative and theory-driven approach grounded in affective polarization studies, digital religion scholarship, and platform governance analysis. It draws on academic literature, policy materials, platform-related discussions, and publicly accessible digital political-religious communication relevant to Indonesian electoral contestation. Analytical attention is directed to algorithmic amplification, religious authority signaling, moral monism, network segregation, and strategic political mobilization. A mechanism-based synthesis is used to clarify how these processes reinforce one another in digitally mediated democratic conflict. Religious authority emerges as a powerful amplifier of partisan distinction when platform systems reward emotionally charged and morally coded political communication. Electoral polarization therefore becomes more intense when algorithmic visibility converts religious claims into recurrent signals of ethical belonging and political exclusion. The article contributes to the field by offering an integrated framework for understanding how digital infrastructures, moral authority, and democratic polarization interact in contemporary Indonesia.
Fatwa Infrastructure in Indonesian Local Governance: Religious Authority, Digital Circulation, and Policy Legitimacy Muhammad Ridho
Pen Of Political Authority and Religion Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Pen Of Political Authority and Religion
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67793/polar.v1i1.25

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Fatwa has become increasingly important in Indonesian local governance as religious authority circulates beyond clerical forums and enters administrative, political, and digital arenas. In decentralized settings, moral legitimacy often matters as much as formal legality, making religious reasoning an influential resource in local policymaking and public justification. This article examines how fatwa becomes politically actionable in subnational governance in Indonesia. The article adopts a qualitative and theory-driven approach informed by studies of religious authority, decentralization, digital politics, and governance infrastructure. It draws on academic literature, policy-related materials, public communication, and documented cases concerning the use of fatwa in local policy debates, administrative framing, and digitally mediated public discourse. Analytical attention is directed to governance translation, reputational signaling, digital authority markers, and local scope variation. A mechanism-based synthesis is used to explain how religious legal reasoning becomes portable, publicly persuasive, and institutionally usable across local political settings. Fatwa emerges as politically consequential when it functions as an infrastructural shortcut linking moral authority, bureaucratic routine, and public legitimacy. Religious reasoning therefore affects local governance not only through doctrine, but through its translation into administrative cues and networked communication. The article contributes to the field by offering an integrated framework for understanding how fatwa operates as infrastructure in decentralized democratic governance.
Platformized Precarity, Religious Giving, and Welfare Authority in Indonesian Gig Work Muhammad Syayid Ripai
Pen Of Political Authority and Religion Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Pen Of Political Authority and Religion
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67793/polar.v1i1.26

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Digital labor platforms have become influential sites of public power in Indonesia by governing access to livelihood, disciplining workers through algorithmic systems, and structuring the conditions under which economic survival remains possible. In urban gig work, this emerging platform authority operates alongside fragmented state welfare and non-state religious support, creating a layered regime in which legitimacy, obligation, and protection are distributed across unequal institutional actors. This article examines how platformized precarity in Indonesian gig work is governed through the interaction of algorithmic control, incomplete public welfare, and religiously mediated forms of support and legitimacy. It adopts a qualitative, theory-driven approach that integrates scholarship on platform labor, welfare governance, political authority, and moral economy. The discussion draws on academic literature, policy documents, platform-related public materials, and documented accounts concerning ride-hailing, delivery work, social protection gaps, and religious giving in Indonesia. Analytical attention is directed to four interconnected dimensions: platform authority, welfare fragmentation, religious support, and the displacement of responsibility across firms, state institutions, households, and moral communities. A mechanism-based synthesis is used to clarify how digital firms exercise practical governing power while non-state religious actors and obligations help absorb the social consequences of weak formal protection. Platformized precarity emerges as a condition in which platforms govern livelihood without assuming full welfare responsibility, while religious charity and moral obligation function as supplementary infrastructures of legitimacy and survival. Indonesian gig work therefore reveals a hybrid field of governance in which state authority remains partial, platform power expands, and religiously grounded support becomes central to the everyday management of insecurity. The article contributes to the field by offering a POLAR-relevant framework for understanding how religion shapes welfare legitimacy and public power under digital capitalism, and how weak political institutions redirect social protection into morally authorized non-state channels.
Hybrid Moral Sovereignty in Indonesia: Religion, Content Moderation, and Digital Public Authority Abdul Wahid Hasyim
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67793/polar.v1i1.27

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Digital platforms have become decisive arenas for the governance of public morality in Indonesia, where legal authority, religious legitimacy, and private moderation systems increasingly intersect. In this environment, disputes over visibility, prohibition, and reputational sanction are not merely technical matters of content control but contests over who may define legitimate public order. This article examines how hybrid moral sovereignty is produced through the interaction of state signaling, platform enforcement, religious authority, and digitally mobilized public pressure in Indonesia. The article adopts a qualitative, theory-driven approach grounded in political sociology, platform governance, and scholarship on religion and public authority. It draws on academic literature, policy and legal materials, platform-related public documents, media coverage, and publicly accessible cases of digitally mediated moral controversy in Indonesia. Analytical attention is directed to legal signaling, religious legitimacy, complaint infrastructures, and platform enforcement as interconnected mechanisms of norm production. A mechanism-based synthesis is used to explain how these actors co-produce binding moderation outcomes without a single sovereign center. Digital governance in Indonesia emerges as a hybrid regime in which state institutions, religious actors, platforms, and mobilized publics jointly shape enforceable moral order. The article concludes that content moderation in Indonesia is best understood as a field of distributed sovereignty in which public power is assembled through legal, moral, and infrastructural coordination. The article contributes to the field by offering a conceptually integrated framework for understanding how religion shapes political authority and how digital governance reconfigures sovereignty in a democratic but morally contested public sphere.
Platformized Halal Governance in Indonesia: Religious Authority, Consumer Citizenship, and Digital Public Legitimacy Fathurohman
Pen Of Political Authority and Religion Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Pen Of Political Authority and Religion
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.67793/polar.v1i1.28

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Halal has expanded in Indonesia from a narrow category of religious compliance into a public system of trust, legitimacy, and moral regulation shaped by state institutions, religious authorities, and digital intermediaries. In platform-mediated commerce, halal now influences not only market choice but also the public ordering of credibility, responsibility, and acceptable conduct. This article examines how halal operates as a platformized form of public authority in contemporary Indonesia. It adopts a qualitative, theory-driven approach that combines scholarship on halal governance, digital religion, political authority, and consumer citizenship. The analysis draws on academic literature, policy and regulatory materials, certification-related public information, media coverage, and platform-facing commercial and influencer content connected to halal discourse in Indonesia. Analytical attention is directed to regulatory authority, religious legitimacy, platform visibility, influencer mediation, reputational sanction, and consumer citizenship as interrelated mechanisms through which halal becomes publicly actionable. Halal emerges as a hybrid governance device in which state regulation, clerical legitimacy, platform circulation, and consumer practice jointly structure moral order in everyday market life. The article concludes that halal in digital Indonesia should be understood not merely as a market attribute but as a dispersed form of public power embedded in certification, visibility, and reputational governance. It contributes to current scholarship by providing an integrated framework for explaining how religion shapes political authority through platform-mediated consumption and how digital infrastructures reconfigure state–religion relations in everyday public life.

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