Iqbal, Mahathir Muhammad2019-09-252019-09-252016-06-042014-05http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/153332This research is an effort to find the relevance of the relationship between religion and the state. The formalization of Islamic sharia issue in political discourse is an interesting study in the relation between religion and state. By using the library approach, this article analyzes the involvement of the state in regulating citizens to implement Islamic sharia in Indonesia. Neutrality of the state is to be the key in finding the relationship of both. Theoretically, this study provides an explanation that neutrality is not only understood as a state of devotion to give the rights of citizens to pray by faith, but also to limit citizens. For the implementation of sharia will be established and run well, when the state has a neutrality. So the state does not attract Islamic sharia to be an official policy or state laws (sharia formalization). Also a Muslim can bring religion into the political circle, but only in the level of political ethics.indWith permission of the license/copyright holderpolitical ethicsNeutrality of the stateformalization of Islamic shariahPolitical ethicsEthics of political systemsGovernance and ethicsReligious ethicsSpirituality and ethicsMethods of ethicsPhilosophical ethicsJournal volume