Religious tolerance in multifaith democracies: a comparative legal study of Indonesia and India

This exploratory research Article, based on secondary sources, undertakes a comparative legal study of the Constitutional and statutory provisions as well recent jurisprudential developments in India Indonesia for promotion religious tolerance two diverse, multifaith democracies with history social conflict highly contested politics. By adopting functional method analysis jurisdictions from Civil Law (Indonesia) Common (India) traditions, implemental convergence equivalence penal laws preventing communalism promoting inclusivity amity among different communities States has been elucidated. At same time, conceptual doctrinal differences understanding content, extent, mechanism preserving inter-faith have posited to be result divergences post-colonial historical trajectories