Reviewing Identity Politics from Pancasila Democracy

Abstract

In the Reformation era, identity politics rose in Indonesia, resulting in ethnic and religious conflicts, religious fundamentalism and radicalism with an agenda to enforce Islamic Sharia, and a political maneuver in political contestation. This article discusses identity politics from Pancasila Democracy. This study uses a qualitative literature study method with a content analysis approach. This approach includes all analysis of the content of the text to conclude efforts to find the characteristics of the text objectively and systematically. The study results that the clash of ethnic, religious, and ideological-based identity politics has occurred since the beginning of the Independence of Indonesia. The feud arose because each group wanted to fight for its primordial identity politics to fill Indonesia, mainly nationalist and religious groups. The feud could be reconciled by making Pancasila the ideology of the Indonesian nation. Pancasila is the result of the agreement of the nation's founding fathers to glue together the diversity of ethnicities, religions, and ideologies that live in Indonesia.