Theologising democracy in the context of Muhammadiyah’s ijtihād

This article focuses to examine the process of Muhammadiyah’s ijtihād has evolved, specifically in constructing notion Negara Pancasila sebagai Dār al-‘Ahd wa al-Shahādah (the state consensus and witness) arguments on which it is built. The scholarly issues that have been highlighted this are study specific discourse not done yet, ijtihad field Siyar (law war international relations Islamic traditions) elaborated with ideas contemporary social sciences very rare, dominantly covered only area Middle East. Accordingly, confidently fulfils these gaps applying qualitative research method analysis contextualisation. argues way producing idea Indonesia as witness theologising democracy. It consists trajectory Muhammadiyah objectified Islam substantialised enhance meaning