“Thank you to the ladies who pray for, ” he said
On Monday, Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama attended the event of the Mawlid of the Prophet in a mosque in the capitalIndonesian citizen of Chinese descent, and a Christian, he sang religious along with Muslim ummah on the stage. He also asked the audience to pray for him because the next day he will attend the first hearing blasphemy cases. The governor who is known by the name of Ahok need the blessing as much as possible.
He is the highest official ever accused of insult of religion in Indonesia. The hard-line Muslims who oppose the rise of Ahok as the highest officials in the capital Jakarta alleging he had insulted Islam in a speech on the twenty-seven November.
At that time, he said that conservatives who quote verses of the Koran to declare a Christian can't be a leader is not telling the truth. He said: “it can be in the hearts of the little ladies and can't choose me. Because fell for wear surat Al Maidah fifty-one macem-macem gitu lho. That's right ladies and gentlemen, yes ” (The transcript and video of his speech edited and twist his words then became viral and helped provoke the public outrage.) During the last two months, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and the Islamic hardliners of the other leading three demo massive cripple the city of Jakarta. They demanded Governor Ahok to go to jail and used his boss, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, to be handed down from his post. (The party of Jokowi, the PDI-P, support Ahok in the election of governor next year.) On the second of December, Jokowi was attending the prayer with the protesters this decision helps lower the political pressure that was addressed to him but also at risk to give legitimacy to the sentiments of anti Ahok and anti-Chinese. So the title of the cover of Tempo magazine English weeks ago that is written in the above demo photos large-scale. Although leaders and Muslim scholars to defend and stated Ahok innocent, start sticking up public opinion against the governor that was very popular. In a survey released last week, forty-five of the respondents said Ahok has despised the religion of Islam, even though. five admitted they did not know exactly what he said “That is if you don't know exactly the statement Ahok, can then agree there is blasphemy or no blasphemy agaka, it is on the basis of what. ” so the question pollster Saiful han ye quoted the local media.
The trial Ahok is not the only case law in the courts of Indonesia based on religious motives.
This year, group pro family calling itself the Alliance of the Love of Family, or AILA, filed a judicial review to the Constitutional Court (MK) to criminalizing intimate relationships LGBT and sexual relations outside of marriage.
No worries if they are successful, the case could open the way to punish other minority groups.
Both of these cases not only signifies the growth of the movement intolerant against the minority ethnic, religious and sexual in Indonesia but also attraction between the strength of the Islamists and the secular that has been going on for decades in this country. Indonesia, which has the largest Muslim population in the world, is a secular state that separates between religion and state, and in which minority groups should be treated equally in the eyes of the law. The principle of the secular begins when the father of the nation agreed not to include Sharia law in the CONSTITUTION purportedly to accommodate the wishes of religious minorities, especially those in the eastern part of the Archipelago are cultured this compound. But now there is a fear that Indonesia's democracy is threatened and hijacked by a group of hard-line and ultra-conservative. On the one hand, the jihadi dreaming for realize the caliphate by violent means, on the other hand there are groups who push the agenda of the Islamists through the way political and social. According to the Indonesian criminal code, homosexual is not something that is illegal. But when the trial COURT, an expert witness for the AILA argued that the concept of universal human RIGHTS does not apply in Indonesia because this country was built based on religious norms. While preaching in front of President Jokowi and his cabinet ministers at the time of the demo the second of December, the leader of FPI, Habib Rizieq Shihab, said that “the law of God above all, that the scriptures in the above paragraph of the constitution. ” Jokowi announced recently that he will form a task force to deal with the problem of intolerance. “In addition to Islam, Indonesia is home to Christians, Catholics, Hindu, Buddha, and Confucius, ” before he made his speech last week at the Bali Democracy Forum. “The values of peace are also firmly held by all people in Indonesia. ” As a politician, he has enlisted the support of leaders religion, however he didn't touch the hard-line groups such as FPI. With his neutral, he seemed to sacrifice Ahok he said: “I will not protect our brothers and Basuki Tjahaja Purnama. ” The court Ahok, such as judicial review in the constitutional COURT, is a test for Indonesia's commitment to principle as a country that is secular, inclusive and tolerant. So far, Indonesia has failed in this test.
