The attempt to understand the Islamists’ reasoning of Pancasila is important. Yet one should ask, what were the conditions that enabled and constrained such reasoning?

Wednesday Forum, 26 Sept 2018. Speaker: Azis Anwar Fachrudin

Tanggapan untuk ulasan Pak Syaiful Arif terhadap Laporan "Polemik Tafsir Pancasila" (CRCS, 2018).

NU mengalami pergulatan yang dinamis dengan Pancasila. Di awal perumusan Pancasila, NU menginginkan Islam sebagai dasar negara. Sikap ini berubah seiring perubahan rezim dan konfigurasi politik.

A “Pancasila Reinterpreted” project is needed to answer an important question: Can Pancasila be more inclusive toward human rights and religious freedom?

The government’s reason in its move to disband Hizbut Tahir Indonesia, claimed to have an ideology that contradicts Pancasila, should remind us of the “Pancasila as the sole foundation” politics of the authoritarian New Order regime.