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Islamic Law in Contemporary Indonesia: Ideas and Institutions . Edited by R. Michael Feener and Mark E. Cammack. Harvard Series in Islamic Law, Harvard University Press2007. Pp. 332. $34.95. ISBN: 0674-02508-3.

Although it is not well known beyond the country's borders, in recent years there has been an efflorescence of scholarship and public debate on Islamic law in Indonesia. In the aftermath of the 1998 ouster of the authoritarian President Muhammad Soeharto, Islamist legislators in the National Assembly introduced a motion to require the government to implement Islamic law for the 88.7 percent of the country's 244 million citizens who are Muslim. The motion failed, but Islamist parties and paramilitaries responded by launching campaigns beyond the nation's capital to press regional governments to implement part or all of the law. Although at a provincial level, none of these initiatives has succeeded, some forty sub-provincial districts have approved shari'a legislation, the constitutional standing of which remains unclear. Meanwhile, in an effort to dampen support for a long-running secessionist rebellion, in 2001 the national government agreed to the implementation of Islamic law in the deeply Islamic but troubled province of Aceh, which enjoys a special status as an autonomous province. Since 2003, the province's Islamic courts, whose jurisdiction was previously limited to matters of domestic law, have extended their reach to the enforcement of regulations mandating the wearing of head coverings by women and the public caning of individuals who consume alcohol. Whether Aceh's Islamic courts will go on to enforce some of the more draconian elements of Islamic criminal law remains a matter of dispute between the provincial and national judiciary. Developments like these have moved the subject of Islamic law to the center of discussion in this sprawling Southeast Asian country. In an effort to place the question in a broader context, in April 2004 Michael Feener, Associate Professor of History at the National University of Singapore, and Mark Cammack, Professor of Law at the Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles, invited specialists of Indonesian Islam to a seminar held under the auspices of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at the Harvard Law School. Complemented with a short introduction by the editors and a thoughtful appendix on Islamic legal education by