The Study of Religious Freedom in Indonesia

In Indonesia, the largest Muslim-majority country in the word, issues of religion-state relations have long loomed large, in part because of zig-zag shifts in this country's politics and associated challenges for religious tolerance, social freedoms, and citizenship. Although it is only in the past decade that research on Indonesia has been explicitly reframed in relation to religious freedom, issues directly relevant to the topic have long figured in studies of Indonesian politics, constitutionalism, and religious violence. The significance of this research lies in the way in which it shows that research must take into account competing models of human flourishing.