REKONFIRMASI POSISI PANCASILA VIS-A-VIS ISLAM

Abstract

After the fall of Suharto regime in May 1998, political change was
not only marked by the more democratic political atmosphere, but
also by the awakening of radical and conservative Islam groups.
These groups have ample rooms to promote their agenda.
Although they have different agendas such as the implementation
of Islamic law, the establishment of Islamic state and even of
Islamic Caliphate in Indonesia, they are similar in their attempts to
replace Pancasila as the state foundation into Islam. This article
aims to show that these attempts are not enough rooted in the
history. Historically, the founding fathers clearly stated that
Indonesia is neither an Islamic nor secular state; it is a state founded
on Pancasila. This phrase summarizes the difficult compromises
and agreements among the founding fathers of this Republic
concerning the official national ideology, i.e., between the Islamist
and nationalist groups. It brings us to a few months before and after
the independence day declared on August 17, 1945. There should
be no contradiction between Pancasila and Islam. Moderate
Muslims in Indonesia already have enough reason to reject the idea
of an Islamic state as well as to accept Pancasila as a political reality,
as the common platform for a plural Indonesia.