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Jakarta, NU Online Thousands of white-clad Muslims took to the streets of the Indonesian capital Monday (9/6) to demand the government ban a minority Islamic sect branded "deviant" by top clerics. Around 5,000 protesters wearing white skullcaps and Islamic headscarves blocked the street in front of Jakarta's presidential palace to demand the government of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono ban the Ahmadiyah sect, AFP reported.
Jakarta, NU Online The House of Representatives is pressing the government to issue a decision on Ahmadiyah, to prevent further violence over the controversial Islamic group. Chairman of the House's Commission VIII overseeing religious affairs, Hazrul Azwar, told The Jakarta Post on Sunday (8/6), the commission had set a June 12 date for a hearing with the home minister, religious affairs minister and attorney general to demand an explanation for their failure to issue a joint decree on the Islamic sect.
Magelang, NU Online Chairman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) KH Said Aqil Siroj (Kang Said) said that the PBNU had no right to recommend the disbandment of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI). Instead the government had the right to disband the Riziq Shibad-led hard line group, he said. "Whether the FPI would be disbanded or not, let the government decide. We have no such authority to recommend whatever related to that (disbandment)," Kang Said was quoted by okezone.com as saying at a religious gathering in Srumbung subdistrict, Magelang regency, Central Java province on Sunday (8/6).
Jakarta, NU Online In a speech to the Asia Society in Sydney on June 4, 2008, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd outlined his government`s vision for an Asia Pacific Community, especially in relation with Indonesia, an Australian Embassy media release said here on Friday. It said Rudd also emphasized the Australian government`s commitment to comprehensive engagement with Asia, particularly Indonesia, as the third pillar of his government`s foreign policy.
Brebes, NU Online The lack of understanding about the teachings of what called as Ahlussunnah wal Jamaah (Aswaja) may cause religious-based violence. Chairman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) KH Masdar Farid Mas'udi would reportedly attend a meeting taking up issues on Aswaja at the Brebes Islamic Center on Monday (8/6).
Jakarta, NU Online The Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) has called on Nahdliyin (NU followers) throughout the country not to engage in polemics related to the issue of Ahmadiyah. As reported, NU's ulemas have considered that the Ahmadiyah was deviant in Islam. The statement was one of the excerpts of instruction issued by the PBNU in Jakarta on Friday (6/6). The instruction disseminated to its all NU boards was signed by Rais Syuriyah (chairman of Legislative Board) of the PBNU KH Chotibul Umam, chairman of Executive Board of the PBNU Ahmad Bagdja, and General Secretary of the PBNU Dr. Endang Turmudi.
Jakarta, NU Online The government is considering the latest developments in the situation in the country relevant to the formulation of a joint ministerial decree (SKB) on Ahmadiyah, Home Affairs Minister Mardiyanto said here on Friday (6/6). "It`s not a matter of being slow, it`s because the problem is complicated. Things are developing very fast, and it`s also not so easy to issue it immediately," the minister said.
Ankara, NU Online Turkey’s top court ruled that the hijab is still banned at universities, a decision that defies the Islamic-oriented government. The battle over the hijab in Muslim-majority Turkey is still going on.
Jakarta, NU Online Indonesian former president KH Abdurrahman "Gus Dur" Wahid promised to disband the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) if the government had no courage to soon disband it. Gus Dur made the remark at a press conference in the Jakarta's Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) headquarters on Thursday (5/6).
Jakarta, NU Online A joint ministerial decree (SKB) on the controversial Islamic sect Ahmadiyah is in the process of being finalized and expected to create a tranquil and peaceful atmosphere in the people`s religious life, Minister/State Secretary Hatta Rajasa said. "The SKB is in a process of finalization and has to be signed by three ministers. One of them, the minister of religious affairs, is now still in Mecca but we hope the decree can be completed before long," Rajasa said here Thursday (5/6).
Jakarta, NU Online The Ansor Youth Movement has strongly urged the government to immediately disband and freeze all activities of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) despite its chief Habib Riziq Shihab was named as suspect and detained by the Jakarta Police. General Secretary of the Ansor Youth Movement Abdul Malik Haramain made the statement at his press release received by NU Online on Thursday (5/6). “The government or police must stand firm to freeze the FPI's activities.”
Jakarta, NU Online Chief of the Islam Defenders` Front (FPI) Habib Rizieq and six FPI members were named suspects and arrested by the Jakarta Police for the recent violent incident in National Monument (Monas), central Jakarta. "Seven people including Habib Rizieq have been named suspects. So, today, there are detained," Spokesman of the Jakarta Police Senior Commissioner Ketut Untung Yoga Ana said here on Thursday (5/6).
