Ash-Shiddieqy’s introduction of term Indonesian fiqh was a compromise between Indonesian nationalism and Muslim reformism. By turning Indonesian customs into one of the sources of Indonesian fiqh. His conceptualization of an ‘Indonesian fiqh’, through his immersion in both classical Arabic texts and the writings of later reformists from the Middle East, and Hazairin’s stress on the role of particular cultural circumstances in shaping the Islamic content of Indonesian law, both foreshadowed comparable initiatives in the 1980s and 1990s, such as Munawir Sjadzali’s Reaktualisasi Agenda. All theses initiatives continue to form the background of discussions and debates on law among Indonesian Muslim intellectuals at the beginning of the twenty-first century.