Justice and Welfare Party

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Partai Keadilan Sejahtera
Party leader Muhammad Anis Matta (temporary)
Secretary General Taufik Ridho
founding April 20, 2002
Headquarters Jakarta
Alignment Islamism , value conservatism

Justice and Welfare Party ( Indonesian : Partai Keadilan Sejahtera , abbreviation PKS ) is an Islamist party in Indonesia .

The PKS was founded on April 20, 1998 in Jakarta with the first party leader Nurmahmudi Ismail . When it was founded, it was based on the programmatic and organizational model of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood . It has 57 seats (10.17%) after the 2009 election in the Indonesian lower house, the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR).

On February 1, 2013, Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq was replaced as Chairman by Muhammad Anis Matta, who had been General Secretary until then . Ishaaq had resigned after being accused by the Indonesian Anti-Corruption Commission (KPK) of being involved in an imported meat corruption scandal.

From 2004 to 2009 the party was headed by Tifatul Sembiring , who then became Minister of Communications and IT. In the 2004 and 2009 presidential elections, the PKS supported the candidate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono .

ideology

The PKS calls itself the " Da'wa Party". In the past it was classified as Islamist or radical Islamic. Her campaign against political corruption was a significant success in the 2004 election. She sits down u. a. for a ban on pornography and harsh penalties for drug use .

In more recent publications, on the other hand, it is described as a moderate Islamist party that collaborates in democratic institutions and is also willing to cooperate with Christian parties. It does not focus so much on changing the constitution, but has opted for a strategy of Islamization “from below”. Its leaders have abandoned several classics of Indonesian Islamist rhetoric, including the call for the restoration of the Jakarta Charter to focus on social issues and the progressive Islamization of law, at the parliamentary level and, more importantly, at the local level.

literature

  • Delphine Alles: Transnational Islamic Actors and Indonesia's Foreign Policy: Transcending the State . Taylor & Francis Group, London, 2015. pp. 83-88.
  • Frauke-Katrin Kandale: Islam in Indonesia after 1998: using the example of the Partai Keadilan Sejahtera . Berlin 2008.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Vali Nasr: The Rise of "Muslim Democracy" , in: Journal of Democracy, Vol. 16, No. 2, April 2005, p. 14th
  2. ↑ a b Political Islam in Indonesia since 1998 , From Politics and Contemporary History , 11–12 / 2012, Federal Agency for Political Education, accessed on September 19, 2012
  3. ↑ Margareth S. Aritonang: Anis replaces Luthfi, as doubts linger over credibility. February 2, 2013, accessed May 10, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Sadanand Dhume: Indonesian Democracy's Enemy Within ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Yale Center for the Study of Globalization, December 1, 2005  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / yaleglobal.yale.edu
  5. ↑ Everything: Transnational Islamic Actors and Indonesia's Foreign Policy . 2015, p. 85.