This fatwa looked quite similar to the former fatwa against the extremely popular fast food of instant Mie about 15 years ago. That was a nice issue for the MUI because it opened the financial gold mine of registration the halal character of all kind of food, against a proper financial payment. I heard from well informed people that this is now the true financial basis of the MUI, which formerly was paid by the State (in fact the Ministry of Religions). Halal certification is big business, also in non-Muslim countries like the Netherlands, but definitely in Indonesia.
The couple Jokowi-Ma'ruf Amin at a hospital for their medical examination
Now Ma'ruf Amin is in a problematic situation. As candidate to become Vice-President, but also head of NU and of MUI, he is considered responsible for quite dramatic cases of children with many defections because of the spread of rubella since the fatwa of 2016. Instead of 90%, in this year only 50% of the children have been vaccinated and in Aceh the percentage has dropped to 7% only.Ma'ruf Amin has now given a quite verbose declaration, where he stated that in case of darurat (urgent situation) the haram status is nullified and it is allowed to practice vaccination. The situation is quite chaotic now and we will see whatcomes of the debate.
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