Dedi Mulyadi

The MUI attempts to chase the regent of Purwakarta out of town, for a musical analogy.

On 7th August the regent of Purwakarta district in West Java, Dedi Mulyadi, gave a speech in which he compared the Quran to a musical instrument, the flute. Dedi was also supposed to have said that he believes the Quran should be interpreted allegorically or metaphorically, not literally.

In response the …

Comment by Rob: … brothers at the MUI?

Self Promotion Strategies

Two aspirants for the presidency, Soetrisno Bachir and Prabowo Subianto, put themselves about.

Action Man Soetrisno Bachir

On the major roads of at least one major city in Indonesia pictures/banners of Partai Amanat Nasional (PAN) leader Soetrisno Bachir striking a manly pose and with the slogan "Hidup Adalah Perbuatan" ("Life is Action") are a common sight.

SB, on the back of …

Comment by Rambutan: … will be a muich better place if either is …

Spiritual Discipline & Fasting

… welfare their religion might presumably dispose them to care.

I refer to the Clerics' Council, MUI, whose Riau chapter in Batam has demanded that the whole entertainment industry shut down - no, sorry, BE shut down - during the entire Ramadan month.

Tuesday's jakartapost Jakarta Post reports some benighted bigot up there saying:

We have asked the Batam mayor to close such establishments [ nightlife venues] for the entire month, especially those engaging in immoral …

Comment by Pena Budaya: … Council, MUI, whose Riau chapter in Batam has …

Ryan of Jombang

… has been much speculation over what punishment is suitable for him.

Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) leader Mar'uf Amin weighed in to the debate saying that even though Ryan seemed to suffer from some sort of mental disturbance he should be sentenced to death. inilah

An official psychiatric examination of Ryan however found that he did not suffer from any mental "disease", but suffered from a sexual disturbance (homosexuality) and had an ultra-sensitive personality. okezone

Comment by Pena Budaya: … Ulama Indonesia (MUI) leader Mar’uf Amin weighed in to …

Death Row Inmates & Debate

… rather than quail before local abolitionist/fanatic rantings, endorsed by the EU, Amnesty and Al Qaeda. Let’s hope he makes the right decision.

Comment by perseus: … like the MUI and FPI, but it will ensure that …

World Peace Forum (WPF)

The World Peace Forum in Jakarta finds out the causes of terrorism and violence in the world.

An important meeting of the World Peace Forum (WPF) has been going on in Jakarta, having been opened by president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on June 24th and involving about 200 representatives of religious and cultural organisations from around the world.

Some of the participants include …

Comment by Cukurungan: … at all. It is the MUI and the Wahabbis who went bananas …

Religion & Religiosity

Rima says religion and religiosity are to blame for much of Indonesia's, and the world's, troubles.

Why religion doesn't matter at all

Once upon a time, Indonesia was well-known in the world as a nation of peace, tolerance and religious pluralism. Other countries even made us their example, a country full of people with various religious beliefs, from various ethnic and language …

Comment by Shinte Galeshka: … fire like those MUI leader do when they visit the FPI …

SKB Ahmadiyah

A police chief explains about the SKB edict against Ahmadiyah and under what terms arrests will be made.

On June 9th the ministerial edict against the Ahmadiyah sect was finally issued. Depending on whose interpretation is accepted it is either or both a "warning" and an "order" that the Jemaat Ahmadiyah Indonesia (JAI) cease its activities, or at least those activities which are deemed …

Comment by ache: … [pass/through] MUI, hence Ahmadiyah have to be …

Good & Bad Citizens

… citizens, engaged in nothing more offensive than disagreeing with the mediaeval bigots of the MUI (whose chair made a great show of visiting the scumbags in jail) are told not to be seen worshipping as they wish to worship, or else. So if a band of rabid primitives takes offence at something we do that doesn't affect them in any way, WE are told to cool it (or be frozen!)

While oleaginous entertainers like Dangdut King Rhoma Irama (who once - post Bali- told a concert that his was a …

Comment by Ross: … in MUI and Hizbut Tahrir would have …

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 …

Comment by ultratupai: … is an official for MUI and she knows what she is talking …

FPI - Laskar Kafir, dikuasai Mossad

Keterangan mengenai kekerasan FPI di Monas, menyalahkan korban, pemerintah dan persekongkolan asing.

Pimpinan Tim Pengacara Muslim (TPM), Mahendradatta, mengatakan bahwa insiden Monas terjadi karena pihak AKKBB dengan sengaja memprovokasi dengan melontarkan kata-kata seperti

FPI Laskar Kafir dan Laskar Setan

Provokasi lainnya termasuk fakta bahwa parade AKKBB ilegal, tanpa ijin …

Comment by Cukurungan: … d Surga. FPI dan MUI adalah lembaga yg dibentuk umat …

Blaming the Victim & Others

Explanations for the FPI violence at Monas, blaming the victims, the government, and foreign plots.

Ahmadiyah

Head of the Muslim Lawyers' Team (Tim Pengacara Muslim,TPM), Mahendradatta, says the Monas incident was caused by the AKKBB side making deliberately provocative speeches, saying such as things as

the FPI are Laskar Kafir (Infidels' Front) and Laskar Setan (Satan's …

Comment by Ross: … chairman of the MUI. The Ratu Adil was a Westerling …

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 …

Comment by M. Sejuki: … FPI, Ahmadiyah, MUI, polisi dan tentara … taek kabeh, …

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 …

Comment by Ross: … line but the MUI line, as quoted in Antara 1/6/08. …

Gereja Dibakar

Sebuah gereja dibakar di Purwakarta, Jawa Barat oleh penduduk setempat yang merasa diremehkan karena protes mereka atas pengalihfungsian bangunan tidak di tanggapi.

Gereja dibawah naungan Yayasan Abdi Karya (Yadika) di Desa Citeko, Kecamatan Plered, Purwakarta, Jawa Barat dibakar oleh penduduk setempat.

Bangunan tersebut sebelumnya digunakan sebagai pabrik genting dan telah mencapai …

Comment by Tata: … com kamu menemui juga orang2 beragama. Berdialoglah …

Purwakarta Church Burned Down

A church is burned down in Purwakarta, West Java by local people feeling slighted at the lack of response to their protests over its construction.

In Citeko village, Plered district, Purwakarta, West Java on 20th May a church run by the Abdi Karya Foundation (Yadika) was burned down in an attack by hundreds of local people.

The building had formerly been a tile factory and was in the …

Comment by Lairedion: … local Purwakarta MUI boss yet? Or the MUI Capo Di Tutti …

ML, Mau Lagi

… on 15th May but now appears to have been delayed.

Protests

Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) leader Amidhan said in Jakarta on 13th May that "ML" should be banned from cinema screens, because it had pornographic overtones and was insulting to women. The MUI had already sent its request to the Department of Culture and the Lembaga Sensor Film (LSF).

Amidhan says he hasn't seen the film yet, but he has read a book with the same title, and it's bad. antara

On 14th May …

Comment by Yousuf: … like to ask the MUI or the powers-that-be that if they …

May 1998 Jakarta Riots

… of dominant discourse may lead to a better comprehension on what happened in those three days of atrocities.

Comment by Oigal: … fellas, it was MUI who issued the Fatwa, and the World …

Conspiracy Theories

… British Conspiracies

In West Sumatra the head of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia, MUI, Buya Masoed Abidin, recently said the Ahmadiyah sect had been created by Britain as a means of dividing Muslims and ensuring the success of their colonisation of the Indian sub-continent in the 19th century.

Buya Masoed Abidin, who incidentally is an internet geek, see http://hmasoed.wordpress.com/ and http://masoedabidin.blogspot.com/

Therefore the government needed to …

Amrozi Execution

… Method

Mahendradatta of the TPM had requested clarification from the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) on whether death by firing squad was a legitimate method of capital punishment within Islam. detik

After a person has been shot they don't die for 5 minutes, so it's torture, but if firing squads are deemed within the bounds of Islamic law [by the MUI], well then that's it.

Impatient

Another TPM lawyer, Achmad Midhan, says he can't understand what is happening with the …

Comment by Rob: … row. So, if the MUI in its infinite wisdom issues a …

Julia Perez & Kamasutra

… but she was forced to drop the idea.

Goyang Fatwa

Meanwhile the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) in South Sumatra, Sumatera Selatan (Sumsel), have issued a fatwa, essentially directed against eight Jakarta based performers who are known to jiggle and gyrate themselves around too much on stage, they being: detik

Dewi Persik
Annisa Bahar
Inul Daratista
Julia Perez
Uut Permatasari
Trio Macan
Ira Swara
Nita Thalia

These singers were particularly known …

Comment by shorty: … lucky censors from MUI and Sumsel who reviewed the …

Shopping Mall Churches

Church services in malls, people in West Java are flocking to shopping malls in order to pray.

"Indonesians seek salvation in shops":

Shopping malls in West Java are home to a growing number of Christian congregations. There are 10 in this mall alone.

Few of them want to talk publicly about why they are here, but off the record they admit it comes down to intimidation by Muslim …

Comment by djoko: … a line the MUI often uses as well to justify …

Al Manar Television

Lebanese Hizbullah television become available to Indonesian viewers courtesy of Indosat.

Since some time this month the Lebanese Shia radical group Hizbullah's own television station, Al Manar , has begun broadcasting to Indonesian audiences via Indosat's Palapa C2 satellite.

Head of Public Relations for Indosat, Adita Irawati, says: detikinet

Al Manar is a new client, they …

Comment by Lairedion: … curious if the MUI will issue a fatwa forbidding the …

Impatient People

… Sjahrir
Subur Budhi Santoso
Radi A Gany

The lone dissenter was Maruf Amin of the MUI. inilah

Sore Necked Maruf.

Bubarkan Ahmadiyah Video

Comment by Patung: … Ulama Indonesia (MUI) and the Religion Department have …

Islamic-Western Civilization

… Muslim. In this regard, he consistently campaigns for harmony with regard to religious life.

MUI

The other ones are such institutions like MUI (Indonesian Mufti Assembly) which also has an authority in response to religious harmony because in Indonesia MUI has strong power with regard to creating law.

Dialogue

The SARA (tribalism, religion and race) conflicts that have occurred in the name of religion in recent years are proof that there is a lack of understanding of …

Comment by Rob: … profits? The MUI position I guess depends on the …

Modern Day Witch Hunt

… was no one left to speak out.

Stop the persecution of Jamaah Ahmadiyah members! Defend Ahmadiyah!

Comment by Murphy: … also not about the MUI. The MUI are not government …

Ahmadiyah (Nearly) Banned

… would not outlaw the group. tempo

Trials

Maruf Amin of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) recommends the Ahmadiyah leadership be put on trial. Their three month period of grace was over and now they could be charged with deliberately and systematically blaspheming against Islam.

He asked people not to use violence against Ahmadiyah followers and any Ahmadiyah members who agreed to repent should be allowed to claim their property. inilah

Show of Strength

The Forum …

Comment by Patung: … Ulema Council (MUI) that had declared Ahmadiyya an …

Ketika Cinta Bertasbih

… to handle the Islamic aspects of the film.

On 1st April they met with Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) leader Umar Shihab, who advised producer Heru Hendriyanto and director Chaerul Umam to avoid SARA issues, things that might upset minorities in Indonesia or cause division.

Another MUI official present, Anwar Abbas, said the example of Ayat Ayat Cinta should be followed. When the character of Maria ( Carissa Putri ) converts from Christianity to Islam the saying by her of the Muslim …

Curing Homosexuality

… their followers.

Ma'aruf Amin, chairman of the Fatwa Commission at the Indonesia Ulema Council (MUI), said

It's a curable disorder. There have been many cases where homosexuals have realized what they did was wrong and became heterosexuals again. It's something that can be fought off.

Benny Susetyo of the Indonesian Bishops Council said:

According to official church documents, we weren't born with sexual disorders. The church regards homosexual behavior as a psychological …

Comment by Richard: … OR, it is the MUI & the Bishops who suffers …

Battle of the Islam Movies

… Geert Wilders' Fitna , has provoked a rather different reaction.

A Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) leader, Kholil Ridwan, says the government should try to block access to the film on the internet.

He also advised Indonesians to boycott Dutch products.

MS Kaban of the Partai Bulan Bintang (PBB) said Wilders should study Islam and learn the correct form. antara

Abdillah Toha of the Partai Amanat Nasional (PAN) said he had already contacted the Information ministry and asked …

Comment by Teng: … the fact that the MUI leader wants to boycott Dutch …

Easter Militancy & Mayhem

… local government and not take things into their own hands. tempo

Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) leader Umar Shihab said the MUI had never instructed that the services of other religions should be broken up and his organisation did not tolerate violence or intimidation. tempo

"Bloody Easter" in Atambua

In Atambua, the capital of Belu regency in East Nusa Tenggara, near the border with East Timor, a gang of "drunken youths" were making a nuisance of themselves outside a …

Comment by Deng Xiao Phing: … Ulama Indonesia (MUI) leader Umar Shihab said the MUI …

Religious Cults & Religious Freedoms

… the Islamic Book Fair in Jakarta Kholil Ridwan of the Clerics' Council (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, MUI), while discussing a newly released book called "Nabi-Nabi Palsu" (False Prophets), said the government needed to make a law against deviant Islamic sects.
There should be a special law for this, so that sects can't develop.
He said the Department of Religion should take the lead in preparing such a law, and once it was promulgated if there were any reports of new sects then the …

Comment by Rob: … the power of the MUI whether it is real or merely a …

Nyepi in Bali

… of Muslim prayer, and the roughly 5% of the population who are Muslims are being instructed by the MUI (Majelis Ulama Indonesia) to only visit a mosque that is nearby their homes, and go there on foot, and not to use the mosque's loudspeaker for the call to prayer.

Muslims have to respect Hindus observing Nyepi.

Says MUI Bali chief Hasan Ali. beritabali

Comment by Cukurungan: … Good move by the MUI here. Everyone else please learn. …

Female Genital Mutilation

… a Surya headline screaming "The United Nations Bans Female Circumcision": xinhuanet

MUI

Prof Dr Chuzaimah T Yanggo, the head of the Youth and Women's section of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), said of the United Nations:

What do they think they're doing, it's not their business. Religion cannot be interfered with by men.

He She said the Health Department had already agreed with the MUI that there was a right way, and several wrong ways, to carry out "khitan". …

Comment by Purba Negoro: … “professor” of MUI- his qualifications are from some …

Treason of the Intellectuals

Ross continues to be infuriated by the lovely Julia Suryakusuma, and other intellectuals.

The chattering classes in Jakarta are starting to make themselves comfortable with the worst elements of Islam.

It has to be said that "intellectuals" are at best self-important bores and at worst a social cancer. I make a clear distinction between them and intelligent people, who are useful …

Comment by Odinius: … surprise. I find MUI’s anti-liberalism statement a …

Barongsai, & Cultural Assimilation

The assimilation of Chinese into Indonesian society, and rules for celebrating Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year/Imlek and Cap Go Meh 2559

Since the year 2000 public celebrations of Chinese New Year in Indonesia have been legally permitted however in Pontianak, West Kalimantan, the mayor of the town issued a special decree, No 127/2008, forbidding any staging of barongsai and …

Comment by Deng Xiao Phing: … issue a Fatwa by MUI that is HARAM to accept bribe money …

Bangkai Orde Baru

Perlu tidaknya pemerintah memperdulikan fatwa yang dikeluarkan oleh MUI.

Politisi dan Pimpinan Pondok Pesantren Tebu Salahuddin Wahid mengatakan pada tanggal 14 Februari bahwa pemerintah seharusnya tidak memberi kepentingan lebih terhadap fatwa-fatwa yang dikeluarkan MUI.

Negara itu rujukannya UUD 1945 dan undang-undang.

Fatwa terhadap Ahmadiyah dan kemungkinan juga fatwa terhadap sekte-sekte Islam lainnya didasarkan oleh segi pengertian agama …

Comment by Rob: … peduli oleh karena MUI sudah ditempatkan sebagai badan …

Sharia Byelaws

… by Indonesia. At the behest of bigots like the FPI and its "respectable" big brother, the MUI, the state will tell women how they may dress.

If two friends of different faiths go shopping in Bandar Aceh, one may be arrested for going unscarfed, while her Christian pal goes unmolested. (Of course the sharia goons will have to apprehend both for a while, to check their ID cards!) IT IS NOT THE STATE'S BUSINESS!

We non-Muslims already have to submit to the dictates of the …

Comment by Lairedion: … nowadays. MUI and like minded people are calling …

Konspirasi Yahudi

Hari Valentine dan hubungannya dengan persekutuan Yahudi.

Sumatra Barat

Ketua I MUI Sumatra Barat Buya Mas'oed Abidin mengeluh pada tanggal 12 Februari bahwa perayaan Hari Valentine adalah bukti kalau Indonesia semakin lama semakin tunduk akan budaya global asing:

Kegemaran tersebut perlu segera dihentikan, karena hal itu tidak cocok dengan budaya kita.

Dalam laporan asal Republika juga ada singgungan bahwa Hari Valentine, dirayakan oleh kaum muda diseluruh dunia, …

New Order Relics

… should not give any special credence or weight to fatwas issued by the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI).

This country is based on the 1945 constitution and the basic law.

The fatwa against Ahmadiyah, and presumably the fatwas against other other Islamic sects, were based on a particular religious viewpoint, which the government should not heed, he said.

Adnan Buyung Nasution

A member of the Presidential Advisory Council, Adnan Buyung Nasution, said the MUI was a relic of …

Comment by dewaratugedeanom: … both sides of the MUI argument have created a climate of …

Jewish Conspiracy

… chairman of the West Sumatra branch of the Indonesian Clerics' Council (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, MUI) complained on 12th February that the celebration of Valentine's Day was proof that Indonesia was more and more subject to foreign, global culture.

We have to stop it, it's not appropriate in our culture.

The celebration of lover's day was proof that the youth of today had lost their love for Indonesia and its culture, he said.

In the original Republika report there is also …

Comment by Mr. Tic Tac Toe: … PLEASE, tell MUI to ban computers too!!!

Media Self Censorship

President Yudhoyono asks the media to not report inappropriate news stories.

In a speech marking National Press Day on 9th February President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono asked journalists and media outlets to exercise self-censorship, given that the time of government control over the press is over.

He told about 500 journalists and media people present: waspada

I really …

Comment by Lairedion: … wacko’s like the MUI should exercise some …

Neo Colonialism in Bali

… on tourism and thus forced to conform to the desires of the modern nDoro Tuan (colonial master)?

Comment by Erin Bliss: … happens 15 muinets away in a much larger city, the …

Diatas Tumpukan Abu Sejarah

Budaya Muslim-Arab yang telah dimasukkan ke Indonesia akan menemui ajalnya.

Bila masyarakat asing menjumpai perilaku masyarakat Muslim konservatif di Indonesia, biasanya terjadi kecenderungan untuk mencerca dan mengolok-olok jika dihadapkan dengan tingkahnya yang kuno, paranoid, dan tidak masuk akal. Namun barangkali lebih baik untuk bergerak dari sikap seperti ini, yakni berusaha empati terhadap orang-orang tersebut, dan dengan begitu memperoleh …

Kontes Kecantikan Miss Indonesia

… dalam beberapa pihak Muslim tertentu. Sejak awal perwakilan lokal dari Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) tidak menyetujui rencana tersebut, begitu juga dengan Golkar dan PKS. Ketua MUI Sumatra Selatan Drs KH Sodikun mengatakan:

"Grand final Miss Indonesia 2008 banyak maksiatnya sehingga kami khawatir akan mendatangkan musibah dan bala bencana."

Indonesia sudah dikenali sebagai Negara nomor dua untuk pornografi dan maksiat, ujarnya:

"Kalau bisa Sumsel tidak termasuk."

Daerah …

Comment by jakjajak: Norak MUI … Gila norak abiss

Miss Indonesia

… in some Islamic circles. From the outset the local office of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) opposed it, as did the Golkar and Justice (PKS) parties. MUI chairman Drs KH Sodikun said:

There is a lot of sin in Miss Indonesia and we're worried that it will bring disaster.

Indonesia was already known as the number two country in the world for pornography and immorality, he said:

Let's keep South Sumatra out of it if possible.

Other parts of Indonesia were more …

Comment by Arema: … based on another MUI fatwa, the one condemning Religious …

Konflik Israel-Palestina

… lembaga Islam Indonesia, termasuk Muhammadiyah dan Nadhlatul Ulama, berangkat ke Israel dan menemui presidennya, Shimon Peres. Kunjungan mereka disponsori oleh Simon Wiesenthal Center dan LibForAll Foundation.

Shimon Peres menyatakan bahwa ia sangat gembira menerima para ulama tersebut, dan ia juga berharap jika lebih banyak orang Indonesia yang mau mengunjungi Israel di bulan Mei 2008 untuk mendoakan damai sambil merayakan ulang tahun Israel yang keenam puluh.

Perwakilan …

Genocide

… to the millions worldwide who died at the hands of Communism. That is a genocide worth remembering.

Comment by spew-it-all: … known to be pro Commuist with ties to the Reds, but it was …

Ahmadiyyah

… tanggal 15 Januari untuk tidak melarang berdirinya Ahmadiyyah, walaupun Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) telah mengeluarkan fatwa yang menyatakan Ahmadiyah sebagai aliran sesat.

Guru bukan Nabi

Keputusan untuk tidak melarang Ahmadiyyah dibuat setelah para pemimpin aliran tersebut memberikan 12 pernyataan yang menyebutkan bahwa mereka mengakui Muhammad sebagai nabi terakhir dan bahwa Mirza Ghulam Ahmad hanyalah seorang guru.

Meskipun begitu, Bakorpakem mengatakan kalau mereka bisa …

Ahmadiyya

… decided on 15th January not to ban Ahmadiyya, despite a fatwa by the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) that had declared Ahmadiyya an heretical Islamic sect. antara

Teacher not Prophet

The decision not to ban the group was made after Ahmadiyya leaders caved into pressure and issued a 12-point statement saying they acknowledged Muhammad as the last prophet, and that Mirza Ghulam Ahmad was simply a teacher.

Pakem however said it may change its decision if Ahmadiyya failed to …

Islam Lunak

… kerusuhan yang telah terjadi, begitu juga dengan Hizb-ut-Tahrir dan Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) yang terkenal getol mengeluarkan fatwa.

Sebuah penyelidikan di tahun 2006 yang dapat dilihat disini, sini, sini, atau bahkan disini, menunjukkan bahwa satu dari sepuluh orang Indonesia mendukung penyerangan teroris, seperti pengeboman di Bali 2002, jika tindakan tersebut dimaksudkan untuk "melindungi agama [Islam]".

Setelah Soeharto jatuh, susunan pemerintahan yang tidak lagi memakai …

Soft Islamization

… mongers Hizb-ut-Tahrir also figure, as does the fatwa prone Indonesian Ulemas Council ( MUI ).

A 2006 survey, which might have been this one, or this one, or this one, or maybe even this one, showed that one one in ten Indonesians supported terrorist attacks like the 2002 Bali bombings if intended to "protect the faith".

After Suharto fell governmental decentralization allowed politicians to get elected locally on Islamic platforms, and they then passed local laws …

Banning Islamic Sects

… to be banned.

One member of the delegation, Amin Djamaludin, from the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), says the sect needs to be banned not because it is heretical but because the world leadership of Ahmadiyah intends to make Indonesia their base. He knows this because he read it in editions 12, 13, and 20 of "Al Fadhl International" in the year 2000, apparently a British magazine put out by Ahmadiyah.

But besides that he said the FUI had gathered a lot of proof showing that Ahmadiyah …

Comment by balibent: … practices. MUI is fighting human nature to ban the …

Pelarangan Sekte-sekte Islam

… satu anggota dari delegasi tersebut, Amin Djamaludin dari Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), mengatakan bahwa Ahmadiyah harus dilarang bukan karena ajarannya sesat, namun karena pimpinan mancanegara Ahmadiyah hendak menjadikan Indonesia sebagai pusat kegiatannya. Beliau mengetahui hal ini dari "Al- Fadhl International" jilid 13, 14 dan 20 di tahun 2000, yakni sebuah majalah Ahmadiyah yang diterbitkan di Inggris.

Selain itu, ia juga menyatakan kalau FUI sudah mengumpulkan …

Comment by iwest: … idiot.Dan harusnya MUI bertindak tegas seperti ajaran …

Pesta Tahun Baru

… baru di Indonesia.

Maksiat

Pada tanggal 16 Desember, Ketua Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) Amidan menyuarakan kekhawatirannya akan pesta-pesta tahun baru yang cenderung terlalu 'bebas' dan bahaya malam tahun baru yang mampu menjadi malam maksiat.

Pelarangan

Walaupun Amidan tidak menyetujui dilarangnya perayaan-perayaan tersebut, Zulfikar, seorang anggota PKS (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera) mengatakan bahwa pemerintah biasa memberhentikan pesta-pesta tahun baru yang 'liar' …

Comment by tifosi: … Melihat lagat MUI yang selalu larang sana dan larang …

New Year’s Eve Parties

… parties are inappropriate in Indonesia.

Sin

On 16th December Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) leader Amidan worried that New Year's Eve celebrations were often too "free" and that New Year's Eve would become known as a night of sin. detik

Ban

While Amidan didn't recommend banning such parties a member of the PKS (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera), Zulfikar, said the government could ban wild New Year's Eve parties, as long as they provided some alternative entertainment that was …

Comment by Raden: … night, I think the MUI are okay so long you pay the bill …

Ketidakbebasan Beragama

… darah yang tidak mengambil tindakan terhadap Ahmadiyah dan aliran sesat lain, apalagi setelah MUI menyatakan MUI sebagai aliran sesat dua tahun yang lalu.

Di Bogor

Di Bogor, Jawa Barat pada tanggal 12 Desember para anggota Gerakan Umat Islam (GUI) berdemonstrasi diluar kantor secretariat GUI di pusat Bogor, sambil meneriakkan, "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar".

Mereka yang berada di dalam gedung Ahmadiyah sudah diperingatkan akan demonstrasi ini dan telah meminta bantuan Jemaah …

Religious Intolerance

… Ahmadiyah and other heretical sects, especially considering that the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) had declared Ahmadiyah to be beyond the pale two years ago. l6

Bogor

In Bogor, West Java on 12th December members of the Gerakan Umat Islam (GUI) protested outside the secretariat office of Ahmadiyah in the centre of Bogor, and shouted "Allahu Akbar, Allahu Akbar".

Those inside the Ahmadiyah office had been pre-warned about the demonstration and they had called on the help …

Comment by iamisaid: … so afraid of the MUI and all of them. We have chosen …

Agama Dayak

… hadir berhubung sibuk akan digantikan oleh sang Sekertaris Jenderal yang telah setuju untuk menemui delegasi tersebut.

Artikel ini diterjemahkan oleh Hannah Mulders dari versi bahasa Inggris - Kaharingan.

Quranic Ringtones

… remind anyone within earshot of their obligations to pray. detik

Meanwhile head of the MUI, Ma'ruf Amin, says there is no problem at all with the ringtones

They're great.

Whenever a person received a call he would be reminded of the Creator, and there couldn't be anything wrong with that, he said. detik

Majelis Ulama

The MUI rides the anti-heretic wave to more money and influence.

Continued from the stories Al Qiyadah Al Islamiyah and Muslim Beliefs.

Banning

The Attorney General formally declared the sect Al Qiyadah Al Islamiyah to be heretical and illegal throughout Indonesia on 7th November, after a meeting with representatives of the Clerics' Council (MUI), the Department of Religion, …

Comment by Rambutan: … a fatwa from the MUI which will declare that anything …

Bahai

… leaders. Four others refused to change back to Islam, while the seventh did not turn up. antara

Comment by Stefan: … you dreaming? The MUI has outlawed polygamy and the …

Smoking Sin

… a living for millions, and consumption also high, the Clerics' Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), is having a difficult time deciding whether to issue a fatwa against smoking, or make it haram within Islam.

Maruf Amin of the MUI said on 25th October that the fate of the farmers who grow tobacco and the workers in cigarette factories had to be considered, and this would make an anti-smoking fatwa unlikely.

In countries like Saudi Arabia, where fatwas have been issued against …

Comment by Idam H.: … I support the MUI decision if they issue fatwa on …

Muslim Beliefs

… considerable number of attacks on Al Qiyadah Al Islamiyah members in the past week, following the MUI fatwa against the group. Many sect members have been arrested, or detained by police for their own safety.

Citizen's arrest of Al Qiyadah Al Islamiyah member in Sleman, Central Java. l6

Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) leader Amidhan complained that the government was too weak in handling the problem of heresy. However he said militant Islamic groups that attacked heretics …

Comment by Josef: (MUI) chairman Kholil Ridwan asked the …

Grand Mufti

Indonesia doesn't need a Grand Mufti, the MUI is enough.

Chairman of Indonesian Ulema Council, (Majelis Ulama, MUI) Ma'ruf Amien says the country does not need a middle eastern style Mufti Council of Muslim clerics, with a Grand Mufti at the head of it, to issue binding rulings on Islamic law.

Maruf Amin, not a mufti.

Maruf says the MUI already does the job of issuing fatwas, and it is an independent body, whereas a …

Mojopahit Empire

Achmad envisages a new Mojopahit Empire with Australia as vassal state.

New columnist Achmad Sudarsono sees Australia destined for client state status under a revived Mojopahit Empire.

Australia's defeat in the Rugby World Cup at the hands of Britain on October 6th was more than a humiliation. It was a sign of a culture that is failing on every level and won't admit …

Comment by perseus: … anything like the MUI. Nor do we have any public figure …

Al-Qiyadah Al-Islamiyah

Mini theocracy in Bogor and Padang.

MUI Fatwa

On 4th October the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued a fatwa against the "Al-Qiyadah Al-Islamiyah" sect, which is led by Ahmad Moshaddeq, real name Salam.

MUI Chairman, Ma'ruf Amin said the sect had grown rapidly since 2000 and that since July 23rd 2007 Ahmad Moshaddeq had been claiming to be a prophet after he spent 40 days and nights in meditation at Mount Bunder, Bogor, …

Comment by new messenger: … Ulema Council (MUI)) comes to you with any news, …

Religious TV

… a result of research carried out over the first 10 days of Ramadan by the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI). In a joint press conference held by the KPI and MUI Amidhan of the MUI said 90% of shows were found likely to increase the incidence of schoolboy-schoolgirl relationships, were not educational except at the end, had bad language, kissing, implicit or explicit sex, violence, and superstition. antara

The MUI said similar things last year.

Fetty Fajriati of the KPI said: …

Comment by Arema: … be fine. NU, MUI, or whatever are not the …

Fundamentalist Mosque

An LDII mosque is attacked in Jember.

A mosque or musholla belonging to the fundamentalist Indonesian Islamic Propagation Institute, (LDII, Lembaga Dakwah Islam ) was attacked and reduced to rubble by hundreds of local men in Tanggul Wetan village, Tanggul district ( map ), Jember, East Java, on 19th September.

An LDII person said:

It happened really quickly, about 500 men suddenly …

Comment by Odinius: … the same thing as MUI’s fatwa against the Ahmadiyya? …

Sex Cinemas

… should behave during Ramadan.

The leader of the North Sumatra Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), Lahmuddin Nasution, outlined on 12th September in Medan some basic rules for Ramadan observance for both Muslims and non-Muslims. antara

Cinemas should stop showing movies or advertisements of a sexual nature, because they would arouse sinful passions not appropriate during the fasting month.
Cafes, bars and discos should close down for the month.
Ramadan should be used …

Wahidiyah

… two of the leaders of the Tasikmalaya branch of the Clerics' Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), Saefudin Juhri and Dudung Akasah. The Tasikmalaya MUI recently condemned the Tasikmalaya Wahidiyah group as heretical, and Wahid argued that the MUI must then share some of the criminal responsibility for the attacks on the group.

He also accused president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono of being unable to protect the country's minorities, and complained that the Tasikmalaya police were …

Live In Programs

Muslim-Christian live-in programs.

Religious Violence

In some of the last years of General Suharto's rule, around 1996-97, the province of East Java saw a sharp upturn in instances of anti-Christian violence, resulting in about 100 churches being burned down or vandalised, about 20 of them on a single day in October 1996 in the town of Situbondo.

A Catholic church burns in …

Comment by luphIndo: … hatred that even MUI wont side with them. What they need …

PLTN Muria

… to safety by security officers.

Not Haram Yet

Meanwhile the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) plans to call the leaders of the Jepara Nahdlatul Ulama to account for their "rash" fatwa.

Ma'ruf Amin of MUI says fatwas have to be based on careful study and sound, established legal arguments.

What is the legal basis of their judgement? If they are just making it up as they go along, then they can't do that.

The MUI itself had never issued a fatwa on nuclear power, he said, …

Comment by Augusto: … on religion and MUI for their livelihood. This Islamic …

Mixed Religion Marriages

… the Islamic Law department at UI however says that the Clerics' Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), has made mixed-religion marriages haram, or forbidden, and in principle other religions, besides Islam, do not allow them either.

It's unacceptable, there is no [valid] marriage, it's living in sin.

Father Andang Binawan says the Catholic church has no problem with mixed-religion marriages, provided the non-Catholic partner is willing to submit to the church's marriage laws, and …

Comment by Tuan: Oh MUI when will you finally become SECURE …

Priyo Budi Santoso

… religion department of Golkar met with leaders of the Clerics' Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), at the Istiqal mosque, Jakarta, to discuss how the MUI and Golkar could together develop strategies for ensuring religious harmony and preventing the break-up of the country into warring tribes.

Priyo Budi Santoso.

Priyo Budi Santoso of Golkar, who replaced the amorous Yahya Zaini as the head of the party's Religion section, says his party is worried about:

religious …

Comment by pj_bali: … ironic that the MUI is looking for ways to promote …