Indigenous Religions and the Impacts of Biased Politics of Citizenship in Indonesia

Iqbal Hasanuddin, Petrus Lakonawa

2018

Abstract

This article presents the negative impacts of the politics of citizenship, based merely on the sake of major religions, made by the government of Indonesia on indigenous religions such as Sedulur Singkep in Central Java, Sunda Wiwitan in West Java, and Tanah Toa Kajang in South Celebes. It uses literature study method on the state policies that have discriminated indigenous religions and their believers. This article shows that there are several governmental regulations that violate indigenous people’s civil and political rights. In turn, such regulations also break their economic, social and cultural rights. These regulations pave the ways for the religious majority groups, especially Islam and Christianity, to discriminate and even persecute the local, indigenous and minority religions. In conclusion, this article argues that the government is indeed responsible for this inequality that is discriminatory towards the local religious adherents and their communitiesoffaith.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Hasanuddin I. and Lakonawa P. (2018). Indigenous Religions and the Impacts of Biased Politics of Citizenship in Indonesia. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC, ISBN 978-989-758-515-9, pages 471-476. DOI: 10.5220/0010011000002917

in Bibtex Style

@conference{binus-jic18,
author={Iqbal Hasanuddin and Petrus Lakonawa},
title={Indigenous Religions and the Impacts of Biased Politics of Citizenship in Indonesia},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,},
year={2018},
pages={471-476},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010011000002917},
isbn={978-989-758-515-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Social Sciences, Laws, Arts and Humanities - Volume 1: BINUS-JIC,
TI - Indigenous Religions and the Impacts of Biased Politics of Citizenship in Indonesia
SN - 978-989-758-515-9
AU - Hasanuddin I.
AU - Lakonawa P.
PY - 2018
SP - 471
EP - 476
DO - 10.5220/0010011000002917