This study examines the tension between Sharia and human rights in Indonesia through an innovative pedagogical model implemented in the master's program at Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang. The research utilizes publications and writing materials by course participants, addressing issues such as religious freedom, interfaith dialogue, and LGBT rights, highlighting a transformative shift in understanding these complex topics. Survey data from 11 alumni indicate that the program effectively promotes critical thinking and a nuanced comprehension of the compatibility between Sharia and human rights. By fostering interfaith dialogue and human rights education, this approach demonstrates potential for enhancing religious tolerance in multicultural societies. The study acknowledges limitations in sample size, self-selection bias, and the lack of longitudinal data. Future research is recommended to assess long-term impacts, strengthen Sharia literacy components, and examine the role of personal factors in shaping outcomes.
This study examines the epistemological relationship between the Living Qur’an and the Living Hadith within the framework of contemporary Islamic studies. Although both approaches emphasize the manifestation of sacred texts in social life, comparative studies that systematically analyze their differences and interconnections remain limited. This article aims to analyze the forms of authority, reception, and legitimacy that characterize both paradigms and to explain how their interaction shapes contemporary Muslim religious practices. This study employs a qualitative descriptive method based on library research. Data were collected from primary and secondary sources on Living Qur’an and Living Hadith studies and analyzed comparatively through an epistemological approach. The analysis focuses on three aspects: the source of authority, the pattern of social reception, and the legitimacy of religious practices derived from the Qur’an and Hadith. The findings show that the Living Qur’an is grounded in the authority of divine revelation, which is sacred, stable, and transcendent. Consequently, the reception of the Qur’an tends to be more homogeneous and directly legitimized by the sacred status of the text. In contrast, the Living Hadith is rooted in the historical authority of the Prophet, mediated through isnad, scholarly interpretation, and local cultural adaptation. This makes hadith-based practices more diverse, contextual, and dependent on social negotiation. Despite these differences, the two paradigms are complementary. The Qur’an provides the theological and moral foundation, while the Hadith operationalizes and contextualizes these values in everyday life. Their interaction produces dynamic religious practices that reflect both normative commitments and social realities. Contribution: This study contributes to contemporary Islamic studies by offering a comparative epistemological framework for understanding the relationship between sacred texts and lived religious experience. It also enriches the methodological development of interdisciplinary, empirical, and contextual approaches in Qur’anic and Hadith studies.
This study examines how digital media has reshaped political campaigning and youth participation in Indonesia’s 2024 presidential election, with particular attention to the political mobilization of Generation Z voters. As the first election in which Gen-Z constituted a significant proportion of the electorate, the 2024 contest provides a critical moment to assess how affective digital strategies influence democratic engagement. The study employs a qualitative content analysis of social media campaign content to investigate how political actors mobilized online attention, emotions, and participation. The primary dataset consists of 72 Instagram posts—12 selected posts from each of the six presidential and vice-presidential candidates—systematically coded and analyzed using NVivo to identify dominant themes, messaging patterns, and strategic variations across campaigns. Digital media monitoring data from Indonesia Indicator, covering the period from October 2023 to 14 February 2024, are used as contextual evidence to situate content-level findings within Indonesia’s broader digital campaign landscape. The findings reveal clear divergences in digital mobilization strategies. The Prabowo–Gibran campaign relied heavily on emotional, entertaining, and personalized content, successfully generating affective connections and higher levels of online engagement among Gen-Z voters. In contrast, other candidates predominantly employed conventional issue-based and programmatic messaging, which tended to produce more limited interactive participation. The study argues that Indonesia’s 2024 election reflects the consolidation of affective digital politics, where algorithmic visibility, emotional resonance, and participatory digital culture increasingly shape electoral competition.
The One Family One Graduate (SKSS) scholarship program, managed by BAZNAS East Java, aims to alleviate the financial burden of higher education for underprivileged communities. However, the absence of clearly defined weights for each selection criterion may lead to unfairness in the selection process. This study aims to determine the objective weights of each criterion and to rank prospective scholarship recipients using the Trapezoidal Fuzzy AHP approach. The data were obtained from 78 scholarship applicants for the 2024 SKSS period and from questionnaires completed by three expert respondents (expert judgment). Feature selection was conducted to identify the most relevant criteria, resulting in 13 selected variables are tuition fee per semester (K₁), father's latest education level (K₂), father's income (K₃), mother's latest education level (K₄), mother's income (K₅), house size (K₆), amount of family installments (K₇), number of parental dependents (K₈), income of working family members (K₉), type of transportation used to campus (K₁₀), distance from home to campus (K₁₁), monthly allowance (K₁₂), and monthly income if the student is working (K₁₃). The results show that the criterion with the highest weight is tuition fee per semester (0.139142), while the lowest is Type of transportation to campus (0.059970). The highest priority subject is Subject 74 (S_74) with a total weight of 0.7964, whereas Subject 23 (S_23) ranks lowest with a total weight of 0.7723. These findings are expected to enhance the objectivity and fairness of the SKSS scholarship selection process.
