Federalising religious courts in Malaysia: lessons from the Indonesian peradilan agama

Religion has an important place in the state and governance in Malaysia. The basic document of the state, namely the Federal Constitution, provides that Islam as the religion of the Federation and allows for the setting up of religious courts. As a federation consisting of thirteen states and the f...

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Main Authors:	Shuaib, Farid Sufian, Nik Yahya, Nik Mohd Fitri
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English English
Published:	2014
Subjects:	K Law (General) KBP Islamic Law KPG Malaysia
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/40363/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/40363/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/40363/2/ICCSAM_Program_Kyoto_2014.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/40363/5/ICCSAM_InvitationLetter.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/40363/8/2Federalising_Religious_Courts_in_Malaysia.pdf

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spelling	iium-403632018-06-19T08:08:12Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/40363/ Federalising religious courts in Malaysia: lessons from the Indonesian peradilan agama Shuaib, Farid Sufian Nik Yahya, Nik Mohd Fitri K Law (General) KBP Islamic Law KPG Malaysia Religion has an important place in the state and governance in Malaysia. The basic document of the state, namely the Federal Constitution, provides that Islam as the religion of the Federation and allows for the setting up of religious courts. As a federation consisting of thirteen states and the federal territories, Malaysia has fourteen courts of final appeals for its religious courts – known as Syariah courts in Malaysia. This comes about since religious courts are under the respective states and federal territories’ powers. As a unitary state, it is possible for Indonesia to provide a comparative framework for Malaysia to learn in its quest to harmonise religious courts. The structural framework of the judicial system in Indonesia such as the relationship between the religious courts (peradilan agama) and general courts (peradilan umum) could be compared with the Syariah courts and the civil court in Malaysia. Furthermore, the singular reference to the Indonesian Supreme Court of cases from different provinces smoothen harmonisation of various courts’ decisions. 2014-05 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40363/2/ICCSAM_Program_Kyoto_2014.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40363/5/ICCSAM_InvitationLetter.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/40363/8/2Federalising_Religious_Courts_in_Malaysia.pdf Shuaib, Farid Sufian and Nik Yahya, Nik Mohd Fitri (2014) Federalising religious courts in Malaysia: lessons from the Indonesian peradilan agama. In: International Conference on Social Science and Management (ICSSAM) 2014, 7th-9th May 2014, Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan. (Unpublished) http://www.icssam.org/
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description	Religion has an important place in the state and governance in Malaysia. The basic document of the state, namely the Federal Constitution, provides that Islam as the religion of the Federation and allows for the setting up of religious courts. As a federation consisting of thirteen states and the federal territories, Malaysia has fourteen courts of final appeals for its religious courts – known as Syariah courts in Malaysia. This comes about since religious courts are under the respective states and federal territories’ powers. As a unitary state, it is possible for Indonesia to provide a comparative framework for Malaysia to learn in its quest to harmonise religious courts. The structural framework of the judicial system in Indonesia such as the relationship between the religious courts (peradilan agama) and general courts (peradilan umum) could be compared with the Syariah courts and the civil court in Malaysia. Furthermore, the singular reference to the Indonesian Supreme Court of cases from different provinces smoothen harmonisation of various courts’ decisions.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Shuaib, Farid Sufian Nik Yahya, Nik Mohd Fitri
author_facet	Shuaib, Farid Sufian Nik Yahya, Nik Mohd Fitri
author_sort	Shuaib, Farid Sufian
title	Federalising religious courts in Malaysia: lessons from the Indonesian peradilan agama
title_short	Federalising religious courts in Malaysia: lessons from the Indonesian peradilan agama
title_full	Federalising religious courts in Malaysia: lessons from the Indonesian peradilan agama
title_fullStr	Federalising religious courts in Malaysia: lessons from the Indonesian peradilan agama
title_full_unstemmed	Federalising religious courts in Malaysia: lessons from the Indonesian peradilan agama
title_sort	federalising religious courts in malaysia: lessons from the indonesian peradilan agama
publishDate	2014
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Federalising religious courts in Malaysia: lessons from the Indonesian peradilan agama

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