Pemikiran Politik Muhammad Natsir Tentang Hubungan Islam dan Negara

Abstract

This writing discusses political thought of Muhammad Natsir regardingto relationship between Islam and state. Discussion about this theme hasbeen taken place early years before Indonesian independence and kept continuingafter it. One of the discussions was led by Muhammad Natsir whotried to unite Islam and state in Indonesia. Therefore this writing anwers thetwo following questions, which are; what is the islamic political thoughtof Muhammad Natsir and how did he realize his islamic political thought?To understand this topic this writing uses the discourse of political theory,the five mainstreams of Indonesian political thought and parties, and thethree paradigms regarding to relationship of Islam and state, which are; UnifiedParadigm, Symbiotic Paradigm and Secularistic Paradigm. The resultof this writing is that islamic political thoughts of Muhammad Natsir canbe categorized as Symbiotic Paradigm, since he tried hard to unite Islamand state in Indonesia. Ways he took to realize his political thoughts werethrough scientific writing, legal constitution, democracy and remained stillin the framework of Indonesian unitary state.

Keywords: Muhammad Natsir, Islamic Political Thought, Indonesia.