Front Pembela Islam Raids

News on a recent mini epidemic of raids by the Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, Front Pembela Islam.

On the 20th of May in the town of Pamekasan, in Madura, East Java, one of the Front's few strong areas in that province, members conducted raids on a number of night spots and some roadside stalls which were thought to be selling alcohol. One hotel was also targeted and the owner of the establishment was instructed not to allow the …

Comment by Aluang Anak Bayang: … Arab-wannabes and islamised Pris gone wrong. They are …

FPI, Komando Laskar Islam & Munarman

Arrests of dozens of Front Pembela Islam and Komando Laskar Islam members in Jakarta, and forced closures of FPI branches in central and eastern Java.

FPI - Jakarta

On 4th June 58 members of the Front Pembela Islam (FPI, Islam Defenders Front) were arrested at FPI headquarters in central Jakarta. The leader of Komando Laskar Islam [KLI], the sub-group of the FPI said to be responsible for the Monas …

Comment by la la la: Islam is the only religion which allows …

Representative Democracy & Islam

Fatkhuri says there is no disharmony between Islam and democracy, theoretical or practical.

An Account of Islamic World and Indonesian Democracy in Practice

Introduction

There has been an endless debate over last decade not only among Muslims scholars but also western scholars in relation to Islam and democracy.

In general, this scholarly discourse is concerned with theological cornerstones as well as ideological …

Comment by hendra i somantri: … US. I think Islam is not in contrary with Democracy …

Islam Lunak

Merambatnya Islam lunak di Indonesia menurut pemerhati mancanegara.

Dalam nada yang sama dengan liputan " Vespa Girls (Gadis-gadis Vespa)" di majalah Time 2007, kini majalah The Economist yang berpendapat kalau Indonesia adalah tempat dimana "'Islam lunak' sedang menjalar". Laporan tersebut dimulai:

"Apakah Indonesia, negeri dengan masyarakat Muslim paling besar, sedang mengalami Islamisasi …

Hardline Islam

Competing views about the current strength of hardline Islam in the country.

On 9th June Ali Maschan Moesa, the head of the East Java branch of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), said that today there were a great number of hardline Islamic groups in East Java which sought to establish an Islamic state or caliphate. He said this was disappointing and re-iterated NU's committment to Pancasila as the national ideology.

Ali Maschan Moesa

He …

Comment by Abul: … hardline Islam is in a “cooling down” …

Anti Islam Video

Police are hunting down the makers of an anti Islam video.

In Batu, Malang, East Java, a recording was apparently made using a handycam and then copied onto VCD format by a Christian student group called Lembaga Pelayanan Mahasiswa Indonesia (LPMI) at the Hotel Asida between 17-20 December 2006 which is said to contain scenes which insult Islam in some uncertain way.

The Lembaga Pelayanan Mahasiswa Indonesia (LPMI) describes itself …

Comment by Aufar Bahri: … true essence of Islam. However, when the Qur’an is …

Islam is Bad for Tourism

… culture. While Bali held on to its Hindu heritage, and thrived, Lombok abandoned it in favour of Islam, and did not prosper, in terms of the travel industry at any rate.

Ternate and Tidore, in the Moluccas, near the island of Halmahera, have not succeeded at all in the tourism area, says Luthfi, while Lombok's limited success can be put down to its proximity to Bali - it has merely taken the "overflow" from the Island of the Gods and cannot take any credit for having done so.

Foreign …

Comment by Teng: … and practice islam in Holland, then it is to build a …

Islamic Defenders Front

The Islamic Defenders Front plan to help guard churches at Christmas.

In a bizarre move the notorious FPI, or Islamic Defenders Front, long known as tormentors of restaurant, pub, brothel, and disco owners, staff, and patrons, has announced they will help the Jakarta police in guarding churches on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.

The police had assigned about 17000 officers for the …

Comment by Ramster: … group. Since the Islamic Defenders Front dislikes the …

Mystical Islam in Medan

The Babur Ridho religious school in Medan, north Sumatra, is accused of deviant, mystical, Islamic teachings. The Indonesian Ulema Council, always vigilant against anything that smells of heresy, is investigating.

The Babur Ridho pesantren attracted a large mob of local residents demanding that it close, after accusations surfaced that some its practices and teachings were not within the mainstream of Islam. The police, as always saying that they sought to avoid violence, sealed …

Battle of the Islam Movies

The battle of the Islam movies, Ayat-Ayat Cinta and Fitna, and which gives a better picture of Islam.

True Islam - Love

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono watched the Islamic soap-opera-romance movie Ayat-Ayat Cinta on 28th March and said he was moved to tears several times.

Tearful.

He said the film was a good example of how Indonesians should struggle to show the true face of Islam to …

Comment by dewaratugedeanom: … in the name of Islam? Islam has enough imams, …

Mencintai Islam

Apa Islam itu dan mengapa orang-orang "mencintai"-nya.

Dalam sebuah pembicaraan mengenai Alfarini Endani, barangkali sebagai pembelaan dari 'awan' persoalan poligami yang sering memberundung Islam dan dari sulitnya masalah ini untuk dihadapi perempuan Muslim dimanapun, Agnes mengatakan :

I LOVE ISLAM!!!!!

Mencintai agama? Seorang Kristen mungkin mengatakan "I love God" atau "I …

Rise of Islam

The West always tries to destroy Islam in Indonesia.

Professor Dr H Muslim Nasution, MA, a lecturer at Jakarta State Islamic University (UIN), in a discussion at Medan, February 1st, on the future of Islam, said that currently there were two regions that had the capability to lead the world Islamic community into the future, they being:

the Indian sub-continent
South-east Asia, comprising Malaysia, Thailand, …

Comment by Mach Jabber: … version of Islam whenever he gets the chance. …

Pelarangan Sekte-sekte Islam

Perdebatan untuk melarang sekte-sekte Islam seperti Ahmadiyah.

Setelah melarang beredarnya sekte Al-Qidayah Al-Islamiyah baru-baru ini, beberapa pihak masyarakat tengah berupaya agar Ahmadiyah, aliran Islam lain yang telah lama didirikan, untuk mendapat perlakuan yang sama.

Dilarangnya Ahmadiyah

Para pemerintah atau lembaga-lembaganya saat ini sedang menimbang pelarangan atas aliran Ahmadiyah, bersama dengan …

Comment by Taufic Amirullah: … agama saya yaitu islam. sekarang saya sudah memiliki …

Islam & Pork

Pig and pork eating issues in the news in Sumatra.

In early June 2007 a housekeeper in Medan, called Risma, who comes from Palembang, reported her boss Andi (50) to the police for forcing her to eat some pork meat.

The case excited some passions in Medan, easily understandable for those who have noticed the visceral disgust and loathing that many Muslims have whenever pork appears in …

Comment by Endan: … and rejected by Islamic teachings. You need to learn …

Learning Islam

Indonesian Muslims still have some way to go in learning Islam.

The minister of religion, Maftuh Basyuni said on 4th August that Islam did not teach violence or radicalism, and radicalism could not be allowed to flourish Indonesia because most people were opposed to it and it had no basis in the Quran. He advised people to not only read the Quran a lot but to learn it and understand it.

Maftuh Basyuni, jealous obsession.

Muslims must …

Comment by gigi: … lost your faith in Islam a very long time ago. Now …

Transnational Islam

… Ulama continues to feel under threat, from politicians, other Muslim groups, and transnational Islamic movements.

Nahdlatul Ulama leader Hasyim Muzadi said on 22nd July that all sections of his organisation, the largest Muslim body in the country, must be on alert against the continual attacks upon it. Speaking to a gathering of 1400 people in Madiun, East Java, he said:

The interference which NU is suffering these days emanates from other Islamic religious groups and from …

Comment by Tomaculum: … why do you hate Islam so much?

Islam & Terrorism

Islam has no relationship to terrorism.

Australian ambassador to Indonesia Bill Farmer said on 23rd July that the various acts of terrorism around the world in recent times had nothing to do with Islam. He told Antara reporters: antara

I can't see any relationship between Islam and terrorism.

He said he had learned this after having lived in Indonesia for some time.

I …

Comment by Dream: … dari golongan Islam sendiri, beberapa ormas menuntut …

Militant Islam

Islamic preachers are increasingly teaching a hardline, militant Islam.

The head of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Hasyim Muzadi, said in Indramayu, West Java, on 31st May that since the post Suharto "reformasi" era Islamic clerics in Indonesia were increasingly likely to preach a "hard" type of Islam that was influenced by the culture of violence overseas, like in the middle east. Such hardline …

Comment by Julita: … successfully than Islam. Thanks Mr. Hasym, we all …

Feminism and Islam

Feminism is not suitable for Indonesian women.

Eny Dwiningsih, a professor at the Islam State University in Jakarta (UIJ), said in a seminar called "Developing Intellectual Interest in Womens' Issues" at the North Sumatra University in Medan on 18th May that Islam rejected feminism.

Feminism was dangerous to Islam because it was infused with the spirit of secularism, opposed to sharia law, and based on false assumptions, she said.

The secularised capitalist nations of …

Comment by Julita: … of feminism & Islam: The life of Aishah is proof …

Anti Islam Website

An anti Islam website run by a Christian political party.

Dozens of people from the "Forum Remaja Islam" (FRI), Islamic Youth Forum, descended on the offices of the Partai Damai Sejahtera (PDS), Prosperous Peace Party, on 11th May in Solo, Central Java, to complain about the existence of a PDS website which insulted Islam, specifically by casting aspersions on the character of Muhammad bin …

Comment by Cukurungan: … understood: 1. Islam is NOT the religion of peace. …

Islam Beliefs

The followers of "True Islam" are urged to return to true Islam.

An official of the Department of Religion in Lebak has strongly advised the "True Islam" ("Islam Sejati") group in the district of Cileles, Lebak, Banten, western Java, to return to the orthodox fold of Islam. Idris Jumroni says:

The teachings of Islam Sejati are not based on the fundamentals of Islam as set out in the Quran and the hadiths. …

Comment by Dimp: … a new branch of Islam, “Honestly True and Real” …

Shia Islam

Pressure on Shia Islamic groups in Indonesia is growing.

On 10th April in Sampang, Madura island, East Java, the home of a Shiite cleric was attacked by a mob of more than 100 people. The attackers carried sharp weapons and attempted to enter the cleric's home but were prevented from doing so by police. No-one was hurt. metrotv

Still in East Java, but on the mainland, on 20th April thousands of …

Comment by Faiq Doole: … Indonesia In to Islam (specially West Java ) Is that …

Secular Islam

The "Secular Islam" movement.

In St. Petersburg, Florida, USA in March 2007 a group of secular minded Muslims held a summit in which a declaration was signed stating that there is now:

a great struggle, not between the West and Islam, but between the free and the unfree.

and

There is a noble future for Islam as a personal faith, not a political doctrine.

Some well known names who put …

Comment by cokk: … now, is only in Islam. as the other two religion …

Islam is for Arabs

Two Javanese men fall foul of the law for saying Islam is an unwanted Arab import.

In the town of Pasuruan, East Java two men, Rohim or Rochamim and Toyib were taken to the police station by angry local residents on 10th April because of Rochamim's dangerous ideas about religion, to which Toyib had become a follower.

Rochamim says that Islam is an Arab religion and has nothing to do with Java or Indonesia and that those Javanese …

Comment by Sunshine: … guys don’t need Islam or any other religion for that …

Islam and Chinese

The distance between Indonesian Chinese people and Islam.

Julia Suryakusuma wrote in the Jakarta Post recently:

The Chinese in Indonesia are usually Buddhist, Christian or Confucian. In fact, the actual number of Muslim Chinese is not known, but there are not many.

And then:

The Religious Affairs Ministry has in the past made strenuous efforts to squelch academic research on the Chinese contribution to Islam in Indonesia. This …

Comment by Aluang anak Bayang: … that draw me to islam. So, one thing I want …… …

Lembaga Dakwah Islam

The Lembaga Dakwah Islam Indonesia (LDII) is battling to avoid the heretic label.

The Council of Muslim Clerics, (Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI)), has in the past viewed some practises of the LDII, the Indonesian Islamic Propagation League, a hardline group in the past linked to the Indonesian Islamic State movement, (Negara Islam Indonesia (NII)), as being "exclusivist" and therefore unacceptable.

The …

True Islam

An Islamic scholar explains about true and false Islam.

In recent months in the areas of Belawan and Marelan, Medan, North Sumatra, a number of disturbances have occured due to the presence of mosques and religious schools thought by some to be practising a deviant or heretical version of Islam.

21st December 2006, hundreds of people protest outside the Sattariyah complex in Belawan. …

Comment by Mach Jabber: … his demand. Islam, they say. Now they claim to know …

Australian Islam

Australian government approved Islam as a way to counter extremist teachings.

The university courses, which are meant to train future Australian imams, will take a look at Islam from an "international perspective".

The Australian government is spending $6 million on the program and the courses will be available from next year.

Abdullah Seed, a Melbourne University professor who trained at the Islamic University …

I Love Islam

What Islam is and why people love it.

In the discussion on Alfarini Eridani Agnes says, likely as a self-defensive reflex against the "cloud" which Islam may have been put under by the polygamy issue, always a difficult issue for Muslim women to deal with:

I LOVE ISLAM!!!!!

Loving a religion? A certain type of Christian might say "I love God" or "I love Jesus" but "I love …

Comment by Ash: I love Islam because I feel free with Islam. …

Asian Islam

On national and ethnic differences in Islam, normative and lived Islam.

Robert W. Hefner discusses the differences between Asian, both South and South East, and Middle Eastern Islam. spero There is "normative Islam", that which is based on scripture, there are no significant differences here between Asian and Arab or middle eastern Islam. Then there is Islam as a lived culture, or way of life, there are differences …

Comment by Tuan: … saying that Islam in SE Asia is different from …

Downer on Islam

Australian foreign minister Alexander Downer on Islam.

Alexander Downer.

There is often a tendency among Indonesian Muslims to view the attitude towards Islam of Anglophone countries such as Australia, United States, and United Kingdom as being fundamentally hostile, however this is rarely the case. In a speech on Nov. 27th to the Council of Australian Jewry Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer re-iterates the …

Enemies of Islam

Faith can overcome the enemies of Islam, says a preacher in Bogor.

Muslim cleric Ahmad Degel delivered some old time religion at his Idul Fitri sermon at the Bogor Botanical Gardens on the 24th, saying that faith was a powerful weapon indeed against the enemies of Islam, the countries of the West, because it put God in the Muslims' corner:

Besides sophisticated weapons, faith is the most powerful armour against the …

Comment by Czeslaw: … as the latest Islamic prophet, El-Bab, which means …

Terrorism, Poverty & Islam

Poverty is the cause of terrorism, says a former Muhammadiyah chairman, not Islam.

Professor Ahmad Syafii Maarif, former Muhammadiyah chairman, speaking at an interfaith gathering, the "Simposium Antarbudaya dan Antaragama", held under the auspices of APEC, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group, or Organisasi Kerjasama Ekonomi Asia Pasifik, in Yogyakarta on the 5th said that terrorism, in all its forms, is an enemy of all countries in the world, not just …

Comment by Ismail: … desire to defend Islam and its prophet at all cost is …

Strange Islam

Hasyim Muzadi warns the Islamic faithful to be on guard against weird religious teachings.

Speaking in Medan on the 20th, the chairman of the PBNU, or Nahdlatul Ulama, said that strange religious teachings could lead to unease and unrest in society. Hasyim Muzadi made note of the case of Yusman Roy in Malang, East Java, a man who was convicted of blasphemy because he led Islamic prayers in two languages, …

Comment by A Free Thinking Liberal: … terrorism is Islamic teaching. Osama must be …

The Crusades & Liberal Islam

The "Jaringan Islam Emansipatoris", or Emancipatory Islamic Network, write about the Crusades and get it all wrong.

The Crusades, they say, starting off on the right historical foot, were begun under the reign of Pope Urban II in 1095 and were meant to recover the holy places of Christianity, above all Jerusalem, for the Christian world. Across the Eastern Mediterranean military operations were …

Comment by S. Strauch: … people who villify Islam; they are not here to have an …

Darul Islam Arrests in Malaysia

… general of police, said authorities arrested 12 men belonging to a group calling itself Darul Islam based in Malaysia's eastern Sabah state on Borneo. Some reports state that ten of the twelve men are Indonesians, while others claim only two or three of them are Indonesian.

With these arrests, police have paralyzed Sabah's Darul Islam underground militant network, which cooperated with Indonesian militants.

Bakri said.

The arrests were first reported by The Star newspaper on …

Front Penyelamat Tangerang

The Front Penyelamat Tangerang, or Tangerang Saviors Front (FPT), attacked a complex of shops thought to be dens of sin.

Tempo reports that the Front, numbering about 150 men, converged on the Lipo Karawaci commercial area and attempted to close a number of clubs there believed to be places of alcohol drinking and prostitution.

Led by one Tubagus Mahdi the FPT demanded that the clubs be …

Apostasy in Islam

Gus Dur, Abdurrahman Wahid, writes on the question of apostasy in Islam.

Traditionally apostasy has been punishable by death in Islam, the most recent almost-case of this being that of Abdul Rahman in Afghanistan. Gus Dur writes in FrontPage magazine on why he thinks that Islam does not, in fact, permit the execution or murder of those who choose to leave the religion. Frustratingly, as Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch has pointed out Wahid does not …

Comment by Anonymous_aloy: … Indonesia. Front Page Magazine have their own view …

South East Asian Islam

Two leading Islamic intellectual figures discuss sharia, and the nature of Islam in south east Asia as compared to the middle eastern form. They raised interesting points but failed to logically carry through their arguments or look too deeply into the issue.

The rector of the State Islamic University in Jakarta, Professor Azyumardi Azra, warned political parties not to rely on the issue of Islamic …

Tony Blair & Moderate Islam

Tony Blair was only prepared to meet with "moderate" Islamic leaders in Indonesia, perhaps preferring to avert his eyes and ears from those who aren't counted in this category.

Blair met with Azyumardi Azra, the rector of the State Islamic University, and Din Syamsuddin, leader of the country's second largest Muslim group Muhammadiyah, among a couple of other moderates. Both men told Blair that the presence of western troops in Iraq was the …

The Purity of Islam

… themselves whatever they like but also the rights of the majority Muslims to protect the purity of Islam. If its purity was not guarded then ordinary Muslims would become confused and led astray, he said.

He said that the matter of Ahmadiyah could be viewed from three angles, the theological, the question of whether they constitute a distinct religion, and the legal side.

From the point of view of theology, or aqidah, the sect was clearly at odds with mainstream Islam, and this was the …

The Clash of Christianity & Islam

At a news conference in Jakarta the chairman of Muhammadiyah, which is a modernist Islamic social group with about 25 million members, Din Syamsuddin, said that religious harmony was difficult in Indonesia because Christianity and Islam were by nature proselytising faiths and naturally collided with each other.

Looking to protect his turf Syamsuddin said:

The idea of dissemination is crucial and Islam and Christianity are both expansionist. If we give them a free …

Comment by PerempuanRantau: … (Christian and Islam), I never have a problem within …

Khawariji Islam

… in terrorism.

The emergence of the Khawariji sect represented the first splitting of Islam, in the 7th century, under one Dhul-Khuwaysarah. It is from the Khawariji sect that the idea of a Sixth Pillar of Islam emanates, instead of five, the sixth pillar being jihad, or holy struggle/war.
In contrast to its radical cousin, the Salafist sect, Khawarijism holds that excommunication can occur with almost no restrictions. The excommunicated are the unbelievers or infidels, on …

Indonesian Democracy and Islam

… painted canvas.

One might assume from analysis of the picture that there is something about Islam and its associated culture that is eternally problematic, hostile to democracy and freedom. A more intrepid student might venture into the pages of the Quran, the hadiths, and the writings of Islamic holy men and scholars throughout the centuries, and there find confirmation for this view, confirmation of which exists in ample supply. Not so Steve Chapman of the Chicago Tribune who, in …

Comment by Country man: … comments about islam ! believe you were commenting to …

Good and Evil in Islam

Good and Evil in Islam.

This is an excerpt from a very good post by IoshkaFutz at Faithfreedom.
It is in response to this post by CuteCoot.
Surely God created, among all other things, Islam. Was that not done as an act of love? What does your own living conscience say of God’s revelation through Mohammad? What could be God’s purpose in this? If God was not revealed through Mohammad, what was? …

Comment by Chess Openings Guru: … believe that the Islamic faith is truth either, but that …

Old Traditions & Customs

Ross worries that the next target of Islamic fanatics will be old Javanese figures and traditions.

Goddess Versus Fanatics?

We were travelling up Jalan Hayam Wuruk towards North Jakarta on a kopaja, when I spotted a street artist’s display, which included a fine painting of Nyai Loro Kidul, the Goddess of the South Seas.

Nyai Loro Kidul

I praised it to my companion, then the perfectly normal-looking man …

Comment by Peter: … about “Islam” and “Javanese culture”, …

Moral Virtue Vigilantes

The Front Pembela Islam are back in action, raiding places and publicly shaming sinners.

Although in early June some FPI branches in East Java were, it seemed at the time ( FPI, Komando Laskar Islam & Munarman ), forced to close, the Lamongan branch of the Front Pembela Islam/Islam Defenders Front has bounced back, with on 23rd June an adulterous couple suffering from the religious zeal of …

Habib Rizieq Shihab

… Habib Rizieq has plenty of celebrity visitors to keep him company in police lock-up.

Rotund Front Pembela Islam (FPI) leader Habib Rizieq Shihab, arrested on June 4th for the FPI attack on a religious freedom rally in Jakarta on June 1st has kept in the news despite his imprisonment.

Famous Visitors

Habib has received a string of visitors, one of the first being aging actor Anwar Fuadi/Fuady, who came to give his moral support. okezone

Anwar Fuadi.

Other famous …

Comment by Shloka: … 7th century Arabia Islam. Don’t go half way, go all the …

Ustad Jefry Al Buchori

Smiling, celebrity Muslim cleric Ustad Jeffry Al Buchori has no time for the Front Pembela Islam.

Ustad Jefry Al Buchori, often called Uje, telegenic and popular Muslim preacher, says the behaviour of the Front Pembela Islam (FPI) in its attack on a religious freedom rally in Jakarta held by the Aliansi Kebangsaan untuk Kebebasan Beragama dan Berkeyakinan (AKKBB) recently has to be deplored because it is against the teachings of Islam to use violence.

I …

Insiden Monas, FPI & AKKBB

Video tindak kekerasan Front Pembela Islam saat parade kebebasan beragama di Jakarta, dan tanggapan Presiden Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Video pemberitaan serangan Front Pembela Islam (FPI) terhadap Aliansi Kebangsaan Kebebasan Beragama dan Berkeyakinan (AKKBB) yang berkumpul di Silang Monas, Jakarta menandai peringatan hari Kesaktian Pancasila tanggal 1 Juni. Sekitar 200 orang anggota FPI memukuli ratusan …

Comment by M. Sejuki: … banyak tentang Islam. Apa-apa saja yang diperintahkan …

FPI & Aliansi Kebangsaan untuk Kebebasan Beragama

Video of the Front Pembela Islam attack on a religious freedom rally in Jakarta, and president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's response.

A video news report of the Front Pembela Islam (FPI) attack on a gathering of the Aliansi Kebangsaan Kebebasan Beragama dan Berkeyakinan (AKKBB) marking Pancasila Day on June 1st at Monas square, Jakarta. About 200 FPI men beat and struck about 100 AKKBB members, accusing …

Comment by Janma: Islam seems to be having great …

FPI Murder Incitement Video

Video of "firebrand" FPI/Front Pembela Islam preacher Ahmad Sobri Lubis advocating murder.

The speech about the Ahmadiyah sect given by Ahmad Sobri Lubis to a gathering of the Islam Defenders' Front/Front Pembela Islam (FPI) in which he makes several incitements to murder.

Comment by Muslimin: This is not Islam that i know, my Islam is greater …

Ketidakbebasan Beragama

… Ahmadiyah:

Di Padang

Di Padang, Sumatra Barat, pada tanggal 30 November, lusinan anggota Front Masyarakat Pembela Islam (FMPI) menyerbu kediaman yang dimiliki jemaat Ahmadiyah sekaligus menghancurkan plang-plang di tempat tersebut.

Di Padang.

Irfiandi dari FMPI mengatakan bahwa kolega-koleganya sudah muak pada pemerintah darah yang tidak mengambil tindakan terhadap Ahmadiyah dan aliran sesat lain, apalagi setelah MUI menyatakan MUI sebagai aliran sesat dua tahun yang …

Comment by WJP: … belakang agama (islam) untuk menindak, meneror agama …

Religious Intolerance

It's the season for attacks on mosques and Islamic schools in West Java.

Recent news of persecution of the Ahmadiyah sect.

Padang

In Padang, West Sumatra, 30th November, dozens of people from the Front Masyarakat Pembela Islam attacked premises belonging to an Ahmadiyah congregation and tore down signs.

In Padang.

One Irfiandi of the FMPI said his members were fed up with the provincial government not taking …

Comment by ade wanto: … to mainstream Islam. Mainstream Islam do not make …

Ramadan Fasting

… not fasting for Ramadan.

This Ramadan, without much variation on last year, some militant Islamic groups, mainly in West Java and some of the more Islamically austere parts of the other islands, have attacked places selling food, and people eating in them, during the daylight hours, while Muslims are supposed to be fasting.

These news reports show men from the Islam Defenders' Front, Front Pembela Islam (FPI), attacking food stalls in Ciamis, West Java.

Comment by Dragonwall: … neither am I anti Islam. Just commenting base on it’s …

Stoning

… be elected to parliament in general elections should only be those who struggle for the cause of Islam. - Yes 31%, No 59%, Don't Know 10%.

When the above results are averaged out LSI found that 33% of respondents were "Islamist", 57% were "secular", and 10% were neither here nor there. Looking at the trend of results for recent years LSI found that support for "Islamist" positions had declined.

Sympathy for Violence.

Do you support fighting for Islam in these ways? …

Comment by sm4lange: … into Christian, Islam, Buddhist and Hindu countries. I …

Wahidiyah

The Wahidiyah movement is attacked in Tasikmalaya.

Penyiar Sholawat Wahidiyah (PSW) is an Islamic mystical prayer movement having its origin in East Java in the early 1960's, and is today based in Ngoro, Jombang, East Java. anu

At about 3pm on 11th September about 100 members of the Islam Defenders' Front, Front Pembela Islam (FPI), descended on the home of a Wahidiyah leader in Tasikmalaya, West Java ( map ). They explained to local people that they intended to purge the area …

Comment by Khimad Abdul Shomad: … call a religion. Islam means peace as I learnt in …

Prostitution Emergency

… Watch (Bandung Maksiat Watch (BMW)) association, which is an umbrella organisation for a number of Islamic groups including Majelis Mujahidin, Pemuda Muhammadiyah, and Tim Pengacara Muslim, and is led by Asep Syarifudin of the Front Pembela Islam (see Headscarf Ban ), has called on the Bandung city government in West Java to declare a Prostitution Emergency over the rampant practice of prostitution there.

Recently the city authorities closed down the old red light district of Saritem …

Comment by Country man: … defend the holly Islam teaching with stupidity..I am …

Walisongo Massacre

… almost 200. hrw.org

Marking the occasion in Jakarta this week the leader of the Forum Umat Islam (FUI), Muhammad Al Khathath, called on the Minister for Religion to arrange for the rebuilding of the Wali Songo School, in an address titled "Remembering the Poso Walisongo Tragedy". Other figures in attendance were Abu Bakar Ba'asyir of the Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI), Habib Rizieq of the Front Pembela Islam (FPI), Ismail Yusanto of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), and Kholil Ridwan …

Comment by mohd nizam abd latif: … is stupid allowing islam people to die.

Zarima Mirafsur

… fighting to get Nikita back, with Ferry fighting her all the way, and she has now turned to the Islam Defenders' Front (FPI) crack legal team for help.

Zarima is Muslim and Ferry is not, and Zarima, and the FPI, complain that Ferry has brought Nikita up according to his religion, and not Islam. What's more, Ferry had changed the girl's name, from Nikita Chairunnisya to Nikita Juan, and even prevented Zarima from visiting her.

Zarima Mirafsur, & a burly FPI lawyer.

FPI …

Comment by Mohammed Khafi: … hiding behind Islam to cover their criminal nature. …

Arab Imperialism

… Gus Dur, Habib Riziq Beats a Retreat, Bush Visit Opposition, Bush's Blood Halal ) of the Front Pembela Islam, Front for the Defence of Islam (FPI), is interviewed and Habib answers this question:

Where are you from?

by saying Yemen, even though he was born in Jakarta. Stephens then goes on to detail some of the more memorable antics of Habib and the FPI and he asks about the source of funding for the organisation and suggests that it is Saudi Arabia.

The Mecca-based …

Comment by Tuan: Islam is growing everywhere, …

Dita Indah Sari

… is also too weak in defending the rights of citizens attacked by militant groups such as Front Pembela Islam, she says: adnki

The FPI attack against us is one example of this. In the past, the FPI has attacked churches and other groups but nothing has been done.

Arastamar School of Theology

The Arastamar Evangelical School of Theology (SETIA) in Jakarta has attracted the attention of Islamic militants.

On March 8th 2007 about 200 members of thuggish groups such as Front Pembela Islam (FPI) and Betawi Rempug Forum (FBR) attacked the Arastamar Evangelical School of Theology in east Jakarta demanding that it close down, according to international sources. ranesi christianpost Some newly built dormitories and outlying buildings were burned down, the mob claiming …

Comment by Mohammed Khafi: … at the Ziyadatul Islamic boarding school in Cakung, …

Headscarf Ban

A hospital in Bandung that banned nurses from wearing headscarves is confronted by a radical Muslim group.

The Kebon Jati, or Kebonjati, hospital in Bandung, West Java, appears to have been forced to abandon its policy of forbidding female nurses from wearing the jilbab , or Muslim headscarf, due to pressure from the Muslim hardline group, Islam Defenders' Front (Front Pembela Islam (FPI)).

Nurse wearing jilbab.

On the 12th representatives from …

Bekasi PNS Scandal

… that the two civil servants be dismissed. The groups represented at the demonstration were Front Pembela Islam (FPI), Dewan Da'wah, Gabungan Remaja Islam, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI). Many carried posters threatening violators of good morality in Bekasi. kompas Some demonstrators were heard to say that the matter had insulted the Muslim community in Bekasi and that the two PNS were moral terrorists. metrotv

Abdul Qodir Djaelani of the Bekasi branch of the FPI said the two …

Comment by Mohammed Khafi: … not forget that Islam was created without any …

Erwin Arnada

… of Bali (although not all Balinese were pleased ) after its Jakarta office was attacked by the Islam Defenders Front, Front Pembela Islam (FPI).

Erwin Arnada, happy early but not now.

A complaint was filed against the magazine's editor, Erwin Arnada, and his trial for publishing indecent material began on 7th December. He faces up to three years imprisonment if convicted.

The man whose complaint to police led to the prosecution of Arnada was Baharuzaman, the co-chairman of the …

Comment by Dragonwall: … Hotel right in front of the Bunderan HI. Those people …

Bush’s Blood Halal

Habib Rizieq of the Islam Defenders' Front says it is religiously permissible to murder George Bush.

During a speech given to a large crowd protesting against the upcoming visit by George Bush to Indonesia Habib Rizieq said at Jakarta on Sunday 19th November:

Bush can be killed by anyone who has the chance to kill him. It's not just that it is permissible to kill him, he must be killed. I am prepared to …

Comment by Dragonwall: … something right in front of his eyes. When Bush visited …

Laskar Merah Putih For Bush

… he had shown some good intentions by coming to Indonesia. He even planned to visit a pesantren, Islamic school, he said. antara

The Laskar Merah Putih are most well known for their fierce opposition to the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and for their role in the violence in East Timor after it voted for independence. They are also known to be on very unfriendly terms with the Front Pembela Islam (FPI), Islam Defenders' Front, - a rival gang.

Christian Police Chief

… clerics, who came from such organisations as the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), Forum Ukhuwah Islamiyah (FUI), Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Muhammadiyah, Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI), Front Pembela Islam (FPI), Dewan Dakwah Islamiyah (DDI), and included such figures as the chairman of the Cirebon MUI, Syarif Muhammad Yahya bin Syech, the chairman of the FUI, Professor Dr. Salim Bajri, and the principal of the Nurrusidik Islamic boarding school, Ade Gumelar, met with the chairman of the …

Comment by Ismail: … me, cause you have Islam on your mind. the fact are there …

Gays & Sharia

Regional laws based on Islamic sharia and their effect on homosexuals.

The Arus Pelangi (Rainbow Flag) recently launched a national campaign against what they say are a wave of "homophobic" or anti-homosexual, regional laws based on Muslim sharia law. Widodo Budi Darmo, a 35-year-old director for Arus Pelangi, claims that homosexuals in Indonesia are regularly harassed by the police, often detained without …

Israeli Aircraft

The FPI, Islam Defenders' Front, are protesting apparent plans by the Defence department to buy Israeli aircraft.

On the 9th dozens of FPI men protested outside the Defence department office in Jakarta over reports that the ministry of defence plans to buy drone aircraft (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, UAV) from Israel.

We reject it if the Defence department really are going to buy planes from …

Comment by Bradlymail: Hassan did Islam teach us to hate or kill the …

Micro Nuclear Bomb

… Mojokerto, and Surabaya. Attending the celebration of the anniversary of the founding of the Front Pembela Islam, Islam Defenders' Front, (FPI) meant a trip to Jakarta interrupted his East Java odyssey. After Malang visits to Pamekasan and Probolinggo have already been pencilled in in his busy schedule.

Comment by Molisan Tono: … have believing Islam in their own way. so, let’s …

Pluralism on the Wane

… the higher rate of support among the 1,200 respondents in all 33 provinces for such groups as the Front Pembela Islam ( Islam Defenders Front ) and the Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (Indonesia Mujahidin Council), which are often perceived as radical, than for the more moderate Jaringan Islam Liberal (Liberal Islam Network).

The greatest enmity, according to the study, is focused on those formerly imprisoned as communists. This is a disturbing reminder that the mystery of the 1965 putsch, …

Lebanese Jihad

… and the government's and others' reactions to them.

Volunteers

On 28th July the Islam Defenders' Front, FPI, began registering for volunteers in Pekalongan, Central Java. By August 3rd they had won five recruits in the town. This same group, in Jakarta, by 8th August, claimed that it had 2000 men ready to fight alongside Hizbullah. Five days previously, Sholeh Mahmud Nasution of the FPI said, 20 men had already been sent to Lebanon. Most of the 2000 hailed from Jakarta …

Papernas

… also on the agenda, while unemployment and the issue of a fair minimum wage are also at the forefront of Octavianus' mind.

This fiery program has met with the approval of overseas commentators such as Max Lane in Australia, who writes greenleft in the Green Left Weekly:

On July 23, 1500 people attended a rally at the National Library of Indonesia to publicly launch a new political party "” the Preparatory Committee of the National Liberation Party of Unity (KP-Papernas) "” …

Ban Playboy

… including children, and it was not enclosed in plastic.

He said he supported the actions of the Islamic Defenders Front, Front Pembela Islam (FPI), in reporting to the police the editor of Playboy and various models who have appeared in the three editions of the magazine (see Krisdayanti & Playboy, Playboy the Third, Joanna Alexandra & Fla Priscilla, Andara Early ).

The authorities should not doubt that they can be charged with spreading pornography.
(Aparat jangan …

Comment by Marco: … sitting in front of their computers and rubbing …

Krisdayanti & Playboy

The legal manouverings of the Islamic Defenders Front become even more bizarre as famous singer Krisdayanti is reported to the police for appearing in an advertisment in the third edition of Playboy.

Krisdayanti's person appeared in the magazine in the form of an advertisement for Bonia watches, on page 5. She, along with various companies that had placed adverts in the magazine, were reported to the police yesterday …

Comment by Rahimah R: … sad to find the Front Pembela Islam organisation stands …

Playboy the Third & FPI Case

As the third edition of Indonesian Playboy comes out two men from the Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, go on trial for an instance of their earlier battle with the magazine.

Two of the men from the Front Pembela Islam (FPI), Zainal alias Ali Zaenal, and Agus Irawan alias Ustaz Agus ( picture ), arrested for taking part in a violent attack on the offices of Playboy on 12th April, while it was located in Jakarta, went on trial last week. Faced with five years …

Comment by agnostic: … of choice but Islam does not, if we are to believe …

Joanna Alexandra & Fla Priscilla

… Fla Priscilla were both reported to the police today by members of a hardline Muslim group, the Front Pembela Islam (FPI), Islamic Defenders Front, says Detik.

We reported the [publishers of the] second edition of Playboy and the models who posed in it. The editor we also reported.
(Kami melaporkan penerbitan Playboy II dan model-modelnya yang berpose di sini. Redaksinya juga kami laporkan.)

said the FPI's lawyer, Jauhari Mubarak. He said they were reported under criminal code …

Habib Riziq Beats a Retreat

Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, chairman Habib Riziq cancels plans to attend an event due to fear of being attacked.

Habib Riziq had planned to visit an Islamic boarding school in Demak, central Java, but there were rumours that his way to the school would be blocked by certain people hostile to the Front. Said the Islamic hard man:

The cancellation was done to ensure a calm atmosphere …

Comment by Rockstar: ‘Islamic Defenders Front, FPI, chairman …