the dynamics of religious political assertiveness of president soeharto

History of indonesia has recorded the name soeharto as the second president and president withthe longest term in indonesia. the dynamics of soeharto's religious-political struggle experienced ups anddowns where at the beginning of independence soeahrto tried to embrace the power of islam, so thatindonesia would be able to rise from the events of the thirty-september party movement of indonesiancommunists. whereat the beginning of the new order suharto was very responsive to the political powerof islam regardless of the political content he wanted but at least, there was a strong desire to get islaminvolved in it. but unfortunately in the middle phase of soeharto's leadership began to turn towards theislamic group, many policies did not benefit islam, including a single principle policy towards islamicparties and islamic mass organizations, where all organizations must use the single principle of pancasila.so that when not using a single principle is considered not recognized by the government, in additionthere is no freedom for the scholars to laugh because they are considered to spread political movements,the use of headscarves is limited, religious education will be removed even if it is not successful.soeharto's unreasonable attitude changed. because in 1990 a lot of soeharto's policies benefited islamsuch as building mosques, establishing icmi (indonesian muslim scholars association), awarding clericsand clerics, even suharto was very religious in nature, where religious activities were very concerned,even he often used the name of the pilgrimage. the fact explained that suharto was a devout president.