ABSTRACT
One of the significant characteristics of the post-reformation era in Indonesia is the religion-based social morality that has been a dominant discourse in the public sphere. The meaning of being moral is often perceived as an association between morality and religiosity. A moral citizen is one who practices his/her religious teachings in their private space and in the public domain. Using the conceptual framework of Nadia Urbinati on populism, this paper aims at analyzing how the current discourse of social morality shapes the public sphere in the post-reformation era in Indonesia. This paper will contribute to the contemporary theoretical discussion about the public reason and populism in general.
