Indonesian Diplomacy to Become a Non-Permanent Member of the UN Security Council 2019-2020

The UN Security Council has 15 members divided into two types of membership, namely permanent members and non-permanent members. This research describes and analyzes phenomena, such as events, social activities, attitudes, beliefs, perceptions, thoughts of people individually or in groups. This study seeks to explore Indonesia's strategy and diplomacy to be elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (UNSC) for the 2019-2020 period. Indonesia is actively contributing to peace, humanity, and prosperity in the region and globally. This variable is the primary consideration for UN member states to support Indonesia. Another reason besides that is inseparable from the maturing of democracy in Indonesia. UN member states view Indonesia as a tolerant country, where Islam and democracy go together. Indonesia will strengthen the global peace and stability ecosystem. For this reason, Indonesia will encourage a culture of dialogue so that conflict resolution can always exist peacefully. Indonesia will also seek to increase the synergy between regional organizations and the UN Security Council in maintaining peace and increasing the capacity of UN peacekeepers, including the role of women.

Discursive Strategy of the Relationship Between Islam and Democracy on Room for Debate Rubric of nytimes.com

Different perspectives on the compatibility between Islam and Democracy are still problematic and have been widely discussed on the international media, especially after the Arab Spring. This study aimed to reveal the changes in social beliefs about the relationship between Islam and democracy within the discourse on Room for Debate rubric, nytimes.com. The data were the written text (verbal) comprising the introductory segment from the editor, the opinion segment comprising 6 articles, and the public comment segment. The method used in this study was the qualitative method. This study employed Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (2013) to reveal the discursive strategy of the writers in negotiating the democratic and Islamic values, to investigate the production, distribution, and consumption of the text, and to identify the social context which causes the discourse of the relationship between Islam and Democracy to appear. The finding showed that there were some democratic values negotiated within the discourse that showed changes in social beliefs about the relationship between Islam and democracy in the modern view. The value negotiation showed the alignment of the writers towards the progressive Muslim actors who supported the modern democratic government system.

Review of Faith and Feminism in Pakistan by Afiya Zia and The Women’s Movement in Pakistan by Ayesha Khan

Books Reviewed: Faith and Feminism in Pakistan: Religious Agency or Secular Autonomy? By Afiya Zia (Sussex Academic Press, 2018) The Women’s Movement in Pakistan: Activism, Islam and Democracy by Ayesha Khan (I. B. Tauris, 2018)

Turkish Islam-Nationalism Under AKP: A New Model for the Muslim World?

The Justice and Development Party’s (Adalet ve Kalkınma Partisi/AKP) activities in bridging Islam and nationalism marks a historic milestone in Turkey’s democracy. Throughout its two decades-long leadership, AKP, under Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s leadership, demonstrated that nationalism and Islam do not clash with Turkey’s stance on secularism. Such understanding provides AKP with a strategic leverage, both at the domestic and international level, especially within the Muslim world. Reflecting upon Rustow’s democratic transition model and Ibn Khaldun’s classic conceptualisation on ashabiyyah, this article attempts to comprehend how Turkish nationalism is formulated within its relations with Islam as AKP’s political roots. Aside from consolidating its political power at the domestic level, this article suggests that the Islam and democracy synthesis provides an opportunity for Turkey to strengthen its political image and position in the region. In a much broader context, this article attempts to contribute to academic discussions on the relationship between religion and states which undergo the process of democratisation.

Kompatibilitas Islam dan Demokrasi: Tantangan dan Hambatan Demokratisasi di Dunia Islam

[THE COMPATIBILITY OF ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY: CHALLENGES AND OBSTACLES OF DEMOCRATIZATION IN ISLAMIC WORLD] This study aims to find out whether Islam and democracy are compatible, as well as how the challenges and obstacles of democratization in the Muslim world. This research is in the form of a pure library (library research) using descriptive qualitative methods. Data analysis of the discussion uses the inductive approach, which is to draw general conclusions from specific conclusions. In principle, not all democratic teachings are relevant to Islamic teachings. When democracy becomes a commitment for the state to be put into practice, then all aspects of life cannot be separated from a touch of democracy, including religion. In Muslim countries, especially Asia and North Africa, religious democracy does not necessarily go hand in hand with the practice of political democracy. Doctrinally, Islam and democracy are two different things, but substantively there are democratic principles that are compatible with Islamic teachings. The principle of justice in law enforcement, equality in community life, nation and state, as well as freedom of opinion, religion, and belief. These principles are ideally contained in a written document, the Medina Charter