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This study will focus on the relationship between political parties and the rise of religious local ordinances (Perda Syariah in Indonesian) in Post-Suharto Indonesia. It aspires to answer the big question of why political parties, regardless of their different ideological outlooks, support religious local ordinances at local level. In order to answer that question, this research will analyze various political processes related to the implementation of religious local ordinances, including coalition pattern, influence from pressure groups, rising Islamic fundamentalism, and political-economic benefits from supporting such legislation as well as different political realities between elite and public perspectives and local and national leadership of political parties.
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