Vol. 1 No. 1 (2026): Indonesia–Türkiye Encounters

This inaugural issue of Ufuk: Journal of Indonesia–Türkiye Studies, published under the theme "Everyday Indonesia–Türkiye Encounters," opens with a Field and Diaspora Notes contribution by Mohammad Muafi Himam and Taufiq Ismail, who draw on Bourdieusian concepts of habitus and capital to trace the intellectual transformations of Indonesian students immersed in Turkish İlahiyat faculties. Azzam Ghufrani and colleagues then situate Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır's Hak Dini Kur'an Dili within a Gadamerian framework, tracing how its interpretive horizons continue to resonate in Indonesian Qur'anic studies. Abdul Rilan Syarif offers a comparative policy analysis of deposit insurance systems in Indonesia and Türkiye, demonstrating that SDIF's risk-based premium architecture produces a markedly superior deposit protection ratio and arguing that Indonesia's forthcoming reform milestones constitute an urgent window for transition. Jelang Ramadhan's geopolitical analysis of Turkey and Russia's Indo-Pacific orientations argues that Türkiye's regional engagement reflects a deliberate soft-power recalibration in which Indonesia figures as a pivotal node. The issue closes with a Book Review by Dina, whose reading of İbrahim Kalın's Ben, Öteki ve Ötesi reframes the Islam–West encounter as a long, layered negotiation between self and other, a fitting coda to an issue animated throughout by the question of what it means to meet across difference.