Islamic Identity and Transitional Democracy in Indonesia: Ideology, Public Sphere and Domination

This research is to review the reformation agenda in Indonesia that has become the momentum of Islamic revival, especially in the public area. The religious symbols which mark the piety form in the general area started to rise after Soeharto's fall (New Order). During the democracy era, tradition provides an opportunity for Islamic movement to represent religious identity which often occurs through contestation and negotiation process among Islam, democracy system and political interest. The process dynamically always takes the public room as the area of Islamic identity shaping. It is review literature and performed through a qualitative method by using a sociological approach. The result of research is to find out democracy transition period, a new Islamic ideology movement which is finding a pattern and performing penetration to use the momentum. While in the contemporary era, the Islamic ideological movement tries to negotiate so that the existence of social role and status in the public area obtains its place.