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Jakarta, NU Online Indonesian Muslims have become more aware of their obligation to give alms (zakat) and have been donating more, according to a survey released Wednesday (4/6). The survey, conducted by the Public Interest Research and Advocacy Center (PIRAC), showed that Muslims' awareness of their obligation to give to the poor had risen by 5.2 percent, up to 55 percent in 2007 from 49.8 percent in 2004.
Brebes, NU Online The Ansor Paramilitary Wing of Brebes, Central Java has filed a formal protest to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to immediately disband the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI). Chairman of Coordination Unit of Brebes Banser, K. Agus Mudrik, said the protest was filed following violent actions committed by the FPI's activists against the National Alliance for Freedom of Religion and Faith (AKKBB) rally at the National Monument (Monas) square on Sunday (1/6).
Jakarta, NU Online Police arrested some 57 members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) on early Wednesday in connection with the Monas (National Monument) violence last Sunday. Antara news agency reported. FPI Chairman Habib Rizieq Shihab on the occasion also went to Jakarta Police Headquarters, saying he went to the Jakarta Police Headquarters at his own will to accompany his members and to make sure that the police would follow the proper procedures in treating the arrested FPI members.
Jember, NU Online Chairman of the Islamic Defenders Front of Jember, East Java, Habib Abu Bakar apologized to former president KH Abdurrahman “Gus Dur” Wahid over the remark made by the FPI's chairman Habib Riziq Shihab that he considered to have insulted Gus Dur. “We Jember's FPI apologize to people over the attack at the National Monument Square and especially apologize to KH Abdurrahman Wahid over the FPI's attitudes so far,” Habib Abu Bakar said in his residence, Jalan Kauman, Mangli, Kaliwates subdistrict, Jember, East Java on Tuesday (3/6)
Jakarta, NU Online The General Chairman of the country`s largest Islamic organization Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU), Hasyim Muzadi, said NU rejected efforts by certain organizations to involve it in the case of the Islamic Denfenders` Front (FPI) attack on a National Alliance for Freedom of Religion and Faith (AKKBB) rally at the National Monument (Monas) square on Sunday. "The PBNU regrets the use of NU`s name and attempts to involve it in the furore over the Monas incident," Muzadi said here on Tuesday (3/6).
Jakarta, NU Online General Chairman of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama KH Hasyim Muzadi said that both the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and the National Alliance for Freedom of Religion and Faith (AKKBB) had misunderstood in dealing with Ahmadiyah. Hasyim said the AKKBB on one hand viewed that the demand to ban the “deviant” sect in Indonesia was a violation of human rights and the freedom of religion and belief as protected by the 1945 Constitution.
Jakarta, NU Online The government has strong legal justifications for disbanding the radical Islam Defenders Front (FPI) and arresting followers who assaulted people rallying for religious tolerance, experts, activists and Muslim scholars said Monday (2/6). The call came as condemnation mounted against Sunday's attack by the FPI on activists from the National Alliance for the Freedom of Faith and Religion (AKKBB) to mark the 63rd year of Pancasila state ideology.
Jakarta, NU Online The violent action committed by the Islamic Defenders Fronts (FPI) against the masses of the National Alliance for Freedom of Religion and Beliefs (AKKBB) at the National Monument Square in Jakarta over the weekend would likely meet public protests. The Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) urged police to arrest and crack down on FPI's actors committing the action.
Jakarta, NU Online Chairman of the Indonesian Council of Ulemas (MUI) Amidhan expressed his regret over a violent action committed by the Islamic Defenders Front against the masses of the National Alliance for Freedom of Religion and Beliefs (AKKBB) at the National Monument (Monas) Square in Jakarta. "We really deplored the incident. I am really opposed to FPI`s action," he said here on Sunday (1/6).
Jakarta, NU Online Scores of members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), a fringe extremist group, ambushed a religious tolerance rally and attacked participants at the National Monument on Sunday (1/6). Around 200 FPI members ran amok amid a rally held by the National Alliance for Freedom of Religion and Faith (AKKBB), whose participants mainly consisted of women and children.
Sukoharjo, NU Online House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Agung Laksono has warned the government against raising the electricity basic rate (TDL). "The people are at present already burdened with the higher domestic fuel oil prices which have also contributed to an increase in the prices of basic necessaries," the House speaker said in Sukoharjo, Central Java, on Saturday (31/5).
Sidoarjo, NU Online Hundreds of Indonesians displaced by the world's worst mud volcano disaster said prayers Thursday on a dyke overlooking the sea of sludge that swallowed their homes exactly two years ago. The eruption on the Indonesian island of Java killed 13 people, displaced some 36,000 and inundated 12 villages -- and there are now signs the entire area may sink and become a huge crater.
