Lembaga Kajian Islam dan Sosial (LKIS, Institute for Islamic and Social Studies) is a Muslim non-governmental training institute and publishing house established in 1993 in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Although it has experienced financial challenges in recent years, LKIS’s publishing…
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Indonesia: social ecology and ethno-cultural diversity
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Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and the largest Muslim-majority country. It has a total population of 260 million people, some 225 million of whom are Muslim (2016). The archipelago of which Indonesia is part has long been marked by pronounced socio-ec…
Education in Muslim Southeast Asia has long varied in content, sponsorship, and organisation. Before the nineteenth century, the dominant variety of popular Islamic culture was based on a “mystic synthesis” (Ricklefs, Islamisation , 7–10), which combined a commitment to Islamic …