TELAAH KRITIS METODOLOGI ISTINBATH MUI (STUDI KASUS FATWA TENTANG GOLPUT)

This essays is dealing with manhaj istinbat al-ahkÄm, or Methodology of Islamic Legal Fatwa inferences, that has been implemented by Indonesian Islamic Jurist Council (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, and then would be calledâ€the MUI’s Methodologyâ€), with particular reference to its fatwa on prohibition of Absentia Voters in the election as the specific object of this study. This study has found the MUI’s Methodology could be categorized – as being known in Islamic Legal system – as “the Collective Ijtihad†with a narrow participation of Indonesian Ulamas only, and none of International Ulama was officially involved. This study has made efforts to explore the ways MUI’s Methodology has been implemented, and then to reconstruct some ideal parameters of the Islamic Legal Fatwa Inferences Concept according to the basics of Islamic Jurisprudential system. As the study examines too the MUI’s Methodology as implemented on the specific object of this study. The fatwa was decided by All-Indonesia Legislation Forum of The Committees of Fatwa that being held in Padang, January 26, 2009