zaterdag 25 juli 2020

FPI still alive? Habib Rizieq Shihab grumbling from Mecca, threatening with 212

From early March until now, end of July 2020, the newspapers and media were absolutely occupied with the COVID-19 virus. Academic, social and political news most of the time was related to the disease, which was much more serious in Europe and most of all the USA and not so much in the Muslim countries of the Middle East and also not in Indonesia. However, during Ramadan all mosques had to be closed, minister of religion Fachrul Razi issued a ban on common meals from saur, early morning, up to the breaking of fast, iftar, together. Also khalwat or a seclusion of the ten last days of Ramadan in a mosque, celebration of nuzulul Qur'an, and, of course, also the most popular salat tarawih, the longer prayer after breaking the fast and maghrib prayer, should take place at home, not in the mosque and also not in larger groups than only the small family. Habib Rizieq Shihab, still in Mecca, protested against the 'negative prospects' of the Minister of Religion.
He was even more negative about a second issue, the proposal for a law on Pancasila, doctrine and practice, now known as RUU HIP, Rancangan Undang-undang Haluan Ideologi Pancasila. The most debated issue is about article 7:


(1) Ciri pokok Pancasila adalah keadilan dan kesejahteraan sosial dengan semangat kekeluargaan yang merupakan perpaduan prinsip ketuhanan, kemanusiaan, kesatuan, kerakyatan/ demokrasi politik dan ekonomi dalam satu kesatuan.

(2) Ciri Pokok Pancasila berupa trisila, yaitu: sosio-nasionalisme, sosio-demokrasi, serta ketuhanan yang berkebudayaan.

(3) Trisila sebagaimana dimaksud pada ayat (2) terkristalisasi dalam ekasila, yaitu gotong-royong.

In this article first the traditional five pillars of Pancasila are repeated in a short version: Divinity, humanism, unity of Indonesia, a democratic system of politics and economy for all. The second part makes it in three parts, no Communism included like in NASAKOM (Nationalism, religion, communism, from the last years of Sukarno), but nationalism, democracy and divinity in its (local?) culture. The third part of this article reduces the three to one issue alone: cooperation, gotong-royong.
Communism is not explicitly condemned in this debate of Pancasila and the religious values only vaguely mentioned in the first and second part. Rizieq Shihab asked that President Jokowi should step down because of this bad formulation. He threatened that 212 (after Two December 2016, when the great demonstrations against the Indo-Chinese candidate for governor of Jakarta, Ahok, was forced to step down) could become effective again!
Also the MUI, Majelis Ulama Indonesia, the Indonesian Council of Muslim Clerics, have protested against the bill, which entered the agenda of parliament in March 2020, in the early beginning in the Covid-19 period. It was not really debated in parliament and now maybe will be dropped for further public debate: 75 years after Suarno issued the idea of pancasila, the debate has not yet ended.

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