Articles by Azis Anwar Fachrudin

Jokowi owes his victory to NU support, and NU expects both material and ideological dividends.

Islamic boarding schools are ground zero for Jokowi’s efforts to win over the Muslim grassroots. Ideology and patronage are both playing a part.

Disputes that mark this pragmatic alliance should worry Islamists that Prabowo may disregard their demands.

The second reunion of the 2016 anti-Ahok rally was a show of force from FPI ahead of elections.

In insisting that “animist” faiths be given a lower status than “religion”, Islamic leaders ignore how the false divide between them was constructed in the first place.

Ian Wilson is right that binary 'diversity vs. sectarian populism' narratives are unhelpful. But religious divides still matter in the politics of inequality.