Islam as the vast majority religion in Indonesia has its values met in every single aspect of Indonesians daily life. Furthermore, Islam Law has also aspired national law. Islam law not only seen as religious entity, but also within the dimension of sacred morality, therefore empirically Islam Law is regarded as living law.  

“Talking about Islam Law is essential, that means we talk about the combination of three pillars of law, western law, custom, and Islam (Sharia). The three inspire the formation of our national law,” Hamdan Zoelva said in Indonesian Law Dialogue titled “Reading Islamic Values in Indonesian Constitution”. The event was held by Jama’h (Pilgrimage) Sholahudin Gadjahmada University (UGM) on Sunday (13/7) at Wisma Kagama, Yogyakarta.      

Historically, the effort of applying Islam, its law to be exact, had shown during the glory of Islamic kingdoms in Indonesia. Kingdom of Mataram applied Ijma and Qiyas as positive restrictive law. “Therefore, those kingdoms have regarded Islam in the highest place, at least sharia had once took place on our soil,” Hamdan said   

According to Hamdan the validity of Sharia, in principle has acknowledged in Indonesia. It is proven as Jakarta Charter took place in the 1945, as it says “The Belief in All-embracing God and the Mandatory to apply Sharia for the muslim worshippers”, which later interpreted as “The Belief in All-embracing God”   

“In one of the consideration of 1959 Presidential Decree, it was said that Jakarta Charter conveys 1945 Constitution and lies in one coach to the Constitution. It also retained that our 1945 Constitution is the one which born on August 20, 1945. A historically confirmation to Islamic values side-to-side with nationalism,” Hamdan said

Aside from Hamdan Zoelva, other lecturers were Chief of UGM Pancasila Study, Sudjito and former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) advisor, Abdullah Hehamahua. (dedy/mh/kun)