Syafiq Hasyim

Researcher’s Profile

Dr Syafiq Hasyim is currently Visiting Fellow at the Indonesia Studies Programme, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. He is also lecturer and director of Library and Culture at the Indonesian International Islamic University (UIII), a newly established international graduate university in Indonesia and adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. From 2018-2019, he was Visiting Fellow at the Indonesian Programmes of RSIS, NTU, Singapore. Dr Syafiq obtained his Dr. Phil from Freie University, Germany, in 2014 and MA Leiden University, the Netherlands in 2002. He has published books, journal articles and commentaries, visual commentaries through TV and YouTube.

Current Research

• Islamic Civil Society and Democracy in the Jokowi Era
• COVID-19 and Islamic Responses in Indonesia
• Halal issues in Indonesia and Malaysia
• The role of Council of Indonesian Ulama
• Rising Islamic Conservatism

Selected Publications

• 2021, “Politics of Fatwa, ‘Deviant Groups’ and Takfīr in the Context of Indonesian Pluralism: A Study of the Council of Indonesian Ulama,” in Muhammad Khalid Masud, Kari Vogt, Lena Larsen, and Christian Moe (eds), Freedom of Expression in Islam: Challenging Apostasy and Blasphemy Laws, published by I.B.Tauris, London
• 2021, Rising Islamic Conservatism in Indonesia: Islamic Groups and Identity Politics, Leonard Sebastian, Syafiq Hasyim, Alex Arifianto, Routledge
• 2021, “Aliran Politics, Political Jihad, and Disappointment: Notes for Muslim Javanese in the Pre- and Post-2019 General Election in Central Java”, in Leonard Sebastian and Alex Arifianto (Eds.), The 2018 and 2019 Indonesian Elections Identity Politics and Regional Perspectives, published by Routledge
• 2019: “The Secular and the Religious: Secularization and Shariatisation in Indonesia,” in Religion, Secularism and Democracy in Southeast Asia, edited by Prof. Vidhu Verma, published by Oxford University Press
• 2019, “Religious Pluralism Revisited: Discursive Patterns of the Ulama Fatwa in Indonesia and Malaysia”, Studia Islamika (Q2), Vol.26,No.3,2019
• 2019, “Fatwa and Democracy: Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI, Council of Indonesia Ulama) and the Rising Conservatism of Indonesian Islam,” the TRaNS: Trans-Regional and -National Studies of Southeast Asia (Q1), pp. 1-15
• 2018, Islam Nusantara dalam Konteks dari Multikulturalisme Hingga Radikalisme (Islam of Archipelago in Context: From Multiculturalism to Radicalism), Gading: Yogyakarta