Abstract:
The caliphate system is a system which is known to only acknowledge a government or a state leadership as
legal if its governance uses the Islamic law as the absolute law, meanwhile other laws such as the positive
law (the law which is applied in Indonesia) is deemed as a form of governance which is against Islam.
Such understanding is clearly contradictory to the Indonesian Constitution (the 1945 Constitution). In the
Indonesian Constitution, it has stated that the implementation of the government or the authority is based
on the constitution supremacy. All forms of governance or application of authority (in the state) refer to the
norms created by the state through the mandated organizations.
