%0 Journal Article
%A MOCH. NUR ICHWAN, -
%D 2005
%F digilib:16233
%J Islamic Law and Society
%T ULAMA", STATE AND POLITICS:  MAJELIS ULAMA INDONESIA AFTER SUHARTO
%U https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/16233/
%X This essay examines the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) and the legal decisions  that it issued after the fall of President Suharto, whose regime played a role  in its establishment. In light of MUI’s changing relationship with the state  under Suharto’s successors B.J. Habibie and Abdurrahman Wahid, I call for  a more nuanced reading of MUI’s decisions.  I also discuss the relative weight accorded to MUI decisions—variously  called “opinions,” pieces of “advice,” and “fatw§s”—arguing that these  “discursive products” reflect a conscious attempt by MUI to break free from  the circumstances of its birth and to guide the reformation process in post-  Suharto Indonesia.