Religion in Nation-State Architecture

There is a simple question, but it is not easy to answer: how to explain the correlation between the strong role of religion on the one hand and the low quality of public life on the other hand?

This question is not only relevant for Indonesia, but has also become a phenomenon in many countries where the majority of its citizens consider the role of religion in the public sphere important but do not have a good quality of life.

Referring to the Pew Research Center survey results (2020), Indonesia, along with the Philippines, ranked as the highest as a country where the majority of the population (96 percent) place religion as an important factor in public life. This is followed by Kenya (95 percent), Nigeria (93 percent), South Africa (84 percent), Tunisia (84 percent), Brazil (84 percent).