MOHAMMAD HATTA DAN PARTAI DEMOKRASI ISLAM INDONESIA: DINAMIKA PEMIKIRAN HUBUNGAN AGAMA DAN POLITIK

Abstract

Muhammad Hatta and Indonesian Islamic Democratic Party: A Thought Dynamic of Relationship between
Religion and Politic. Mohammad Hatta as a person who firstly proclaims RI was an initiator who had an idea of
separated relationship between religion and politic. Hatta was someone who “responsible” for deleting seven
words on Jakarta Charter 1945 as a spirit in integrating religion and politic. He lobbied many Islamic prominent
figures to consider deleting “sacred” words on the Jakarta Charter, “kewajiban menjalankan syari`at Islam bagi
pemeluk-pemeluknya” (“the compulsory to obey Islamic law for the followers) that was recommended by the
nine committees. Such statement had made Hatta elder statesman who tried to separate religion from state.
Otherwise, as far as he lived he used to build an Islamic in the early New Order era although it fell down. There
were an impression that he changed his state of mind in relation to the religion and state. He took Islam as a
basis of regulating politic and government. This was showed from Hatta’s effort in establishing Indonesian Islamic
Democratic Party with other muslem public figures. Looking at his background, the idea and the effort were not his
phase thought, but they were crystallization of his religious attitude that Hatta applied consistently.