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Monopolising Islam: The Indonesian Ulama Council and state regulation of the ‘Islamic economy’

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The Ulama Council of Indonesia (MUI) is an advisory body with a nationwide network of branches that produces fatwa ‘to guide the Islamic community and the government’. Nominally an independent NGO, MUI has always had a complex and mutually dependent relationship with the state, which established it and funds it. This paper describes regulatory changes since Soeharto's fall in 1998 that have expanded MUI's formal role in the state system for the administration of Islamic legal traditions and, in particular, the ‘ syariah economy’. These changes have heightened MUI's influence and the legal authority of its fatwa , granting it new institutional roles (and, in some cases, monopolies) in relation to halal certification, Islamic finance and the haj pilgrimage. MUI has now begun to accrue quasi-legislative powers resembling those enjoyed by state ulama councils and state Muftis elsewhere in Southeast Asia, but not previously available to any modern Indonesian fatwa -producing body.

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  • Tim Lindsey, 2012. "Monopolising Islam: The Indonesian Ulama Council and state regulation of the ‘Islamic economy’," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 48(2), pages 253-274, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:bindes:v:48:y:2012:i:2:p:253-274
    DOI: 10.1080/00074918.2012.694157
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