nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/1bf50643de038c99 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 250113s2025||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/1bf50643de038c99 doi eng 342 23 Nugraha, Ignatius Yordan Author aut (orcid)0000-0002-0807-5141 Godly Constitution and Divine Enlightenment - The Indonesian Constitutional Court’s Recent Theocratic Judgment Nugraha, Ignatius Yordan Verfassungsblog 2025-01-13 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier God is not dead, at least not in Indonesia. Belief in God is not only fervent across the population, but also exalted as part of the constitutional identity of the state itself. On 3 January 2025, the Indonesian Constitutional Court issued a judgment concerning the rights of non-believers in Indonesia. The Court essentially ruled that there is ‘no room’ for the freedom to be irreligious in Indonesia. Most notably, the Court has declared that the 1945 Indonesian Constitution is a ‘Godly Constitution’, and therefore all laws must always be ‘illuminated by divine enlightenment’. The judgment represents an unusual form of constitutional theocracy, which is inherently syncretic and claims to represent the collective wisdom of all recognised religions of Indonesia. CC BY-SA 4.0 Indonesien Religion religious constitutionalism theocracy (DE-588)4026761-1 gnd Indonesien Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/godly-constitution-and-divine-enlightenment/ raw object