04 April 2019
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- How Brunei’s Sharia Law Fits with Southeast Asia’s Rising Tide of Political Islam
How Brunei’s Sharia Law Fits with Southeast Asia’s Rising Tide of Political Islam
Brunei has become the first country in Southeast Asia to fully implement Sharia criminal law on a national level. But the move is just the latest in a growing trend of conservative politicians across the region pandering to hardline Islamist groups to prop up their support. Indonesian presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto’s core supporters come from modernist-oriented, theologically conservative Muslim clerics, activists, and organisations, said Alexander Arifianto, a research fellow at the RSIS in a commentary.
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Last updated on 09/04/2019
