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 …

Batam Nightlife

… to close down for Ramadhan.

Chairman of the Clerics' Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), Ma'ruf Amin urged the owners of bars, discos, and probably brothels on the holiday island of Batam to close down entirely while Muslims observe the fasting month of Ramadan.

They make plenty of profit over 11 months, it's not too much to ask them to close down for one month.

He advised the government of Batam on August 24th to think carefully over how they could avoid conflict …

Comment by Pakmantri: … DPR, and angota MUI go for their entertainment after …

Sexy Dangdut

… and singing in Cianjur for independence day.

The Clerics' Council (Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI)) of Cianjur in West Java has issued a fatwa forbidding on-stage dangdut singing and dancing during celebrations for Indonesian independence day on August 17th. The fatwa firmly makes haram in particular the type of dangdut dancing which involves sexy or erotic movements, or any type of dangdut where the singer is female, (like Inul, who isn't welcome in Mataram or Depok, and now …

Comment by foolosophy: … this is just the MUI’s another gibberish. Too scared …

Islam & Pork

… of pork eating or even touching of pork comes up. Abdullah Syah of Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), for example, said anyone who forced a Muslim to eat pork was committing an insult to the whole Muslim community and he hoped that Andi would be given a suitably severe punishment. republika

Meanwhile, in early August 2007, further south in Risma's home town of Palembang, South Sumatra province, an unrelated incident involving accusations that a producer of bakso, meatball soup, …

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 …

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

Heretic Outreach

… called Sungai Hitam, there were 150 Ahmadiyah members, he worried. The Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) had already ruled that Ahmadiyah was unacceptable, he said, because Ahmadiyah recognised a prophet after Muhammad, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Pakistan, whereas in true Islam God had no more need of prophets after Muhammad bin Abdullah.

The call had already been sent out:

We have already invited them to return to true Islam, but the problem is that whether they choose to listen to us or not …

Comment by Shiva: … Ulama Indonesia (MUI) had already ruled that Ahmadiyah …

Sir Salman Rushdie

… seeking reactions.

Sir Salman Rushdie.

First, on 21st June, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) chairman for Central Java, Ibnu Djarir, asked the government to seek an explanation from the British ambassador in Jakarta.

Britain has to understand the feelings of Muslims about "The Satanic Verses".

People who insulted holy books did not deserve to be called "Sir", he said. republika

Djarir's senior in Jakarta, Amidhan, complained:

For a long time Muslims have been …

Tight Clothing

Women university students in tight clothing, or not.

The Syiah Kuala University (Unsyiah) in Aceh will shortly issue a regulation banning the wearing of tight clothing by female students. On 18th June the Rector's assistant, Edi Nur Ilyas, said:

A ban on women students wearing tight clothes will be enforced in stages.

A staged enforcement of the new rules on Muslim clothing was …

Comment by agam: … to get permit from MUI to market it in all Indonesia or …

Environmental Fatwa

The environmentalist fatwa from the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI).

The Central Kalimantan branch of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) last year issued a decree, or fatwa, against the burning down of forests or any area of land, thereby making unauthorised deforestation a haram, sinful matter for Muslims, or for those which accept the MUI's authority at any rate. On 19th June this year local MUI head Abdul Wahid Qosimy said his learned body had …

Comment by Dimp: … this latest fatwa, MUI should never ever open their mouth …

Dark Rooms

… said to exist in Nyompok village, Kopo, Serang, Banten, according to the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI). Like Islam Sejati this new sect, which doesn't seem to have a name yet, conducts some of their religious activities in dark rooms, or so it is said.

Syafe'i AN of the MUI Serang branch said on 15th June that a number of reports had been received from concerned residents of Nyompok village about the presence of a deviant religious group and the MUI was currently investigating.

The MUI …

Walisongo Massacre

… Ismail Yusanto of Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), and Kholil Ridwan of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI).

Apart from the rebuilding of the school Al Khathath asked that refugees from the conflict be given the opportunity to return to their areas of origin, that the government apologise to the families of the victims and pay them 400 million rupiah (1000 dinars) compensation each, and that the police fully investigate the 16 Christian figures who were named by Tibo as responsible for …

Pagan Rituals

… accusations of paganism.

The leader of the Clerics' Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), for Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB) province in the east of the country, Syaiful Muslim, warned Muslims, particularly those on the islands of Lombok and Sumbawa, to be on guard against beliefs brought by people from the middle east. Some forms of Arab/middle eastern Islamic rituals and theology were not appropriate for Indonesian culture and people, he said, and were far removed from the …

Preachers in Politics

… sure if the two things were related. detik

May 31st 2007. Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) leader Muhidin Junaedi complained in Bogor that too many clerics are involved in politics and ignoring their responsibilities elsewhere. He said that a number of Islamic schools in Central and East Java were experiencing a shortage of clerics and students because of this. antara

The Journey of Prophet Muhammad

… the contents of the video did not show any pictures or representations of Muhammad a leader of the MUI in Cirebon, Mahfudz Bakri, worries that: mediaindo

People will think that the man [on the VCD cover] is Muhammad.

Given the fact that:

Islam forbids any visual depictions of Muhammad.

The video is produced by PT Merak Cipta Indokreasi, but in its original form the cover features only a map of the city of Mecca, not an Arab man. Police are still investigating. detik

Comment by Mohammed Khafi: … A leader of the MUI in Cirebon, Mahfudz Bakri, worries …

Yusril Ihza Mahendra

Yusril Ihza Mahendra's dismissal from the Cabinet, foreign interference, and presidential plans.

Yusril Ihza Mahendra was dismissed from his position as State Secretary in the cabinet of president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on 7th May due to, according to many, the likelihood that he is criminally connected with Tommy Suharto 's stealing of state funds. asiasentinel

Yusril Ihza …

Comment by cokk: … about icmi, mui, ustadz ba’ashir, habibie (uhh i …

Islam Beliefs

… the police any activities of the True Islam believers. republika

Nurdin Tajri, the head of MUI Lebak, worries that the false beliefs of True Islam will cause damage to the Muslim faith and create social problems. Tajri says that new members of True Islam must undergo a ritual washing process in a dark room, naked, men and women mixed in together. This was against Islam, he said, and he urged the police to take action.

A later report has the regent of Lebak saying he had already …

Holy Books Mix Up

… stay calm and not be influenced by events.

Syamsul Huda of the Jombang Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) complained that the holy books mix-up was an insult to Islam.

We urge the police to take action and deal firmly with those responsible.

N. Hidayat of the Dewan Dakwah Islamiyah Indonesia said in Jakarta that the matter was an example of Christianisation. eramuslim

Recently dozens of members of the Barisan Serba Guna Anshor (Banser), the para-military wing of the Nahdlatul …

Comment by Andrew: … Ulama Indonesia (MUI) complained that the holy books …

Nationalization

… background in the religious organisations of Muhammadiyah and Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), echoed the oft-heard sentiments of his party's leader, Amien Rais of Partai Amanat Nasional (PAN), in saying that the current government did not have the courage to take back the natural resources wealth of the country from foreigners.

A.M. Fatwa.

Foreigners had had control of the wealth of Indonesia for dozens of years now and Fatwa hoped that president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono …

Comment by DoOs: … Ulama Indonesia (MUI), Lol professional? He …

World’s Tallest Statue

… scene of Christian-Muslim war. republika

Meanwhile chairman of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) in Medan, Ngadiman, said the MUI had already given a verbal instruction that the statue construction was not allowed, if it used the name of Noah. However if Noah's name was not used the MUI did not object. waspada

Comment by Janma: … don’t they (MUI) just pass a ruling that Muslims …

Pentecostal Church

… in the neighbourhood hall attended by residents, representatives of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), policemen, local government officials, and some Pentecostal pastors. Those opposed to the church said that the Pentecostals were trying to build the church in a secretive, dishonest way. Originally they had said that the building was going to be a family home, but now wanted to turn it into a church, it was claimed.

One person, Rudi, complained that there were already a lot of churches …

Model Village

… a model or example Islamic village.

The East Java branch of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) hopes to build a model or example Islamic village in the town of Pamekasan on Madura island. Abdus Somad Bukhori of MUI says the model village will display Islamic concepts in economics, culture, social relations, and democracy put into action.

The Regent of Pamekasan, Ach Sayfi'ie, welcomed the plan:

Whatever the East Java MUI wishes is very good.

And he said every regency should …

Comment by Rambutan: … straight here. MUI is filled to the rim with idiots. …

Islam is for Arabs

… were seized as evidence by police.

The Pasuruan branch of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) is said to be speedily preparing a fatwa to condemn the ideas of Rochamim. Dhofir Azhari of the Pasuruan MUI has already paid a visit to the two men in custody and he reported that they had already apologised for their deviant Javanese ways. jawapos metrotv

Toyib has been charged under Article 156a of the criminal code dealing with blasphemy, while Rochamim has not yet been …

Comment by Aluang anak Bayang: … need them here. MUI just have to be seen to be doing …

Anti Islam Video

… feared that such a sensitive matter would cause unrest in society. The Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) and the Batu branch of the Department of Religion first reported the case to the police. Then the Batu local government held a meeting with a local church body, the Badan Kerja Sama Gereja (BKSG), to get to the bottom of things.

The Batu office of the Nahdlatul Ulama pleaded with its followers to not react in a way that would discredit Muslims, while the Badan Kerja Sama Gereja (BKSG) has …

Comment by artman: … organization like mui or fpi? There should be: FPH …

Indonesian Islamic State (NII)

… (NII, Negara Islam Indonesia) movement urged the Bandung chapter of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) to issue a warning about the congregation.

The former members recently went to the MUI Bandung chapter on Jl. Martadinata in Bandung, West Java, asking it to alert the public to aggressive tactics used by the movement.

Dede Ahmad, 34, a former NII member, said he was worried over increasingly strident efforts to collect donations, supposedly to establish an Islamic state.

Now they …

Halal Certification

… of medicine and cosmetics companies, the LPPOM, a division of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), says there are 120 drugs' companies and seven make-up producers that have failed to obtain their halal certificate. Only five of the former and one of the latter have managed to get the certification from MUI, says Muhamad Nadratuzzaman Hosen of the LPPOM.

Muhamad said that producers of food, medicines and cosmetics are not obliged by the government to obtain the halal certificate but …

Comment by Mohammed Khafi: … for the members of MUI as they obviously need to be …

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 …

Comment by aer: … The same way MUI still exist. The diffrence between …

Militants

… preachers.

Maruf Amin, the head of the Fatwa Commission of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), admits there are still a fair number of militant Islamic preachers and fanatics who preach the "war verses" from the Quran and encourage hatred of non-Muslims.

Maruf was speaking in Jakarta on the 9th in respect of statements made by the visiting Islamic Affairs minister of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Saleh bin Abdul Aziz bin Muhammad bin Ibrahim Al-Seikh. The Sheikh had said that in Saudi …

Islamic Textbooks

… The team is made up of representatives from the Padang branch of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), the Indonesian Mosque Council, Imam Bonjol State Islamic Institute, the Padang Language Council and the local religious affairs office. Padang has a number of Islamic laws on the statute books.

Team head Syamsul Bahri Khatib, who heads the MUI in Padang, said the group analyzed the textbooks' illustrations and writings from the perspective of Islamic moral values and history, religious …

Garuda Crash

A Garuda plane burst into flames upon landing in Yogyakarta.

A Garuda Indonesia jetliner, flight GA 200, a Boeing 737-400 craft, carrying 140 people, caught fire upon landing at Adisucipto airport in Yogyakarta, Central Java.

One of the passengers was an old friend of this site, Din Syamsuddin, sitting in seat 7D. Din says he feels as if he was saved by the Almighty. antara …

Comment by Ihaknt: … heard someone from MUI survived. Maybe he started the fire …

Lembaga Dakwah Islam

… 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 MUI's main objections to LDII concern the latter's worship or prayer routine, and its attitude to other Muslims. For a person to …

True Islam

… it was not applicable.

Meanwhile the head of the North Sumatra branch of the Clerics' Council (MUI), Abdullah Syah, said that his organisation would call the leaders of the deviant sects and discuss their ideas and a fatwa would later be issued against them if necessary. He said the North Sumatra MUI had already issued many fatwas on this issue, such as those against Ahmadiyah, Inkarus Sunnah, Islam Jama'ah, and others. antara

Comment by Bas: MUI clearly teaches a totaly stupid and …

Jakarta Chinese

Governor Sutiyoso of Jakarta wants a fair deal for the city's Chinese.

On the occasion of Chinese New Year, or Imlek, Governor Sutiyoso promised to make it easier for the city's Chinese to obtain official documents, such as birth certificates, family cards, local residency papers, and even citizenship, while visiting the Wihara Dharma Bakti temple in Glodok on the 18th. tempo

"Bang …

Comment by Raden: … to challenge MUI & NU that all Masjid must not …

Anti-Chinese Violence

Anti-Chinese feeling in Indonesia, 1996-1999.

Jemma Purdey, in Anti-Chinese Violence in Indonesia, 1996-1999 , suggests that the anti-Chinese violence which periodically occurred prior to May 1998 had its origins in the policy of the Suharto government of marginalising the ethnic Chinese population, restricting them to certain, mainly business, roles, and portraying them as uncaring and …

Comment by 1ndra: … your wise words. MUI or others have advised not to give …

Jihad Sin

… Ali, the head of the Central Sulawesi branch of the Clerics' Council, (Majelis Ulama Indonesia, MUI), said on the 31st in Palu during a meeting with police that the concept of jihad as found in the Koran was no longer entirely relevant today.

In the time of Muhammad there were many infidels who waged war against Islam. But today it's difficult, there are many people who follow different religions but they are not enemies to each other.
(Pada zaman Rasulullah Muhammad SAW sudah jelas …

Ahmadiyah & Human Rights

… Indonesia was largely unmolested. However in 1980 the Council of Clerics (Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI)) issued a fatwa against the sect declaring their brand of Islam a heresy. A year later a letter from the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Jakarta was sent to the head of the Islam section of the Department of Religion recommending that Ahmadiyah be banned by the government - three years after this the head of the Islam section of the Department of Religion penned an edict in which it was stated …

Pamekasan Protest

… consideration.

However Alwi, the Secretary of the local branch of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), the clerical council, said the proposed law was already the result of much thought and that it was flexible. He advised those who opposed the law to re-read it.

When questioned he did not deny that the law was part of the MUI's long term plan to apply Islamic law in the city. suarasurabaya

Barack Obama

Senator Barack Obama's Muslim past in Indonesia is being used against him.

Senator Barack Obama from Illinois is reputed to hold some ambition of contesting the Democratic Party nomination for US president next year. His likely rival for the nomination, Senator Hillary Clinton, or her campaign staff, is believed by some to have "leaked" information about Obama having attended a Muslim …

Comment by Odinius: … version of the FPI/MUI (but an atheistic one). Man, you …

Sharia Wimps

… limp-wristed about encouraging local sharia laws.

Chairman of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), Indonesian Clerics' Council, Ma'ruf Amin, says that leaders of regional branches of the MUI must support local governments in developing laws based on Islamic sharia law. Those who fail to do so he calls banci, wimpish or effeminate.

[Branches of] the MUI which don't push for the creation of regional sharia laws are wimps.
(MUI yang tidak bisa mendorong Pemda dalam membuat Perda …

Comment by PS3: … also said that the MUI was working to ensure that Muslims …

Bekasi PNS Scandal

… 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 culprits had violated both Islamic and state law and therefore should be sacked and …

Erwin Arnada

… pointed out that the publication of such material was in violation of a Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) fatwa of 2001. metrotv

Baharuzaman, or Bahar, went on: republika

I reported the magazine to the police because it did dirt on society, especially children.
(Saya laporkan pada polisi bahwa majalah ini meresahkan masyarakat terutama anak-anak.)

and:

The name "Playboy" means a man who likes to play around with women. It's an icon of world pornography.
(Playboy dari …

Alfarini Eridani

Aa Gym 's new wife, Alvarini, or Alfarini Eridani.

This be she:

Joke.

Apparently this is her. Pretty lady.......

Alfarini Eridani. …

Comment by huangeffendi: … not even by MUI, NU or Muhammadiyah leader. ps : …

Maria Eva

Maria Eva, deeply religious woman and star of the Golkar porn flick, a hive of contradictions.

Maria Eva, or Maria Ireva, 29, usually called Merry, from Sidoarjo in East Java, is the dangdut singer and sometime sinetron actress who appeared in the raunchy sex recording with Golkar parliamentarian Yahya Zaini.

Her name has cropped up here once before, when she was reported to have …

Comment by Saddam: … bodies (ie. MUI, FPI, Laskar Jihad, etc) are …

HIV/AIDS

… Ma'ruf Amin, the head of the main Muslim clerical body, the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), blames the spread of the disease on poor standards of morality and the declining influence of religion.

The role of religious morality keeps weakening so that free sex, homosexual relations, and drug use have become the causes of a disease which has no treatment (sic).
(Peran moral agama yang semakin menurun seperti terjadinya pergaulan seks bebas dan juga pergaulan sesama jenis (homo …

Al Qadariah

The Al Qadariah sect in Gorontalo are pronounced heretical.

The Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) in the city of Gorontalo in Sulawesi has issued a fatwa declaring the Al Qadariah Muslim sect to be deviational from the Quran and hadiths on six points. Lukman Katili, head of the fatwa commission, told an anxiously awaiting group of Al Qadariah members: mediaindo

The six points are not to be found in the Quran and hadiths, they are at odds with Islamic teaching.

The six points …

Population Growth & Family Planning

… the reign of Yudhoyono. antara

Meanwhile the Muslim clerical body, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), says vasectomy for men and tubectomy for women are not forbidden according to Islam provided the procedures are reversible. It seems that the tube tying issue had been a matter of some debate among clerics, with many fearing that the procedures led to permanent sterility, and in general, some Muslim clerics seem to often worry about organised, sinister, attempts to make Muslims …

Bush Visit Opposition

… Hurt Feelings

Maruf Amin of the main Muslim clerical body, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) says the government should not have invited someone who keeps hurting the feelings of Muslims around the world. Maruf said the feeling of dislike towards Bush was palpable among Indonesian Muslims. antara

Profit

In Makassar, South Sulawesi, a professor at the East Indonesia University (UIT), Muin Salim, said there was no gain for Indonesia in Bush coming. Instead he opined that …

Comment by Anonymous_aloy: … Those idiots from MUI, UIT, KPPSI, Basyir, Fadli Zon, are …

Sholat in Indonesian

… was brought to the attention of the authorities when the Malang branch of the Ulema Council, MUI, issued a fatwa against him. Malang Regent Sujud Pribadi and chief of the Malang Prosecutor's Office Ichdar Supi'i then moved to close down the Muslim boarding school which Roy headed, I'tikaf Ngaji Lelaku. gusdur.net

Yusman Roy, while preaching at the I'tikaf Ngaji Lelaku school in Malang.

Now that he has been released he says he will continue to use Indonesian when praying, or …

Abortion

… is permissible in rape cases but not in pregnancies resulting from adulterous liasons, says the MUI.

The head of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), the main clerical body in Indonesia, Ma'ruf Amin, says that women who have been raped and fallen pregnant are permitted to have an abortion up to the fortieth day of the pregnancy but not after. According to Ma'aruf a hadith, or a book recalling the words and deeds of Muhammad, says that at the fortieth day of pregnancy the unborn child …

Christian Police Chief

… Rochiyanto.

The 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 …

Comment by Big White Infidel: … position in Jawa. MUI, NU, MMI, FPI, and others …

Muslim Cleric Murdered

… Mustika" which is currently being investigated by the Bogor branch of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) over suspicions of heresy. About 1000 members of the Yayasan demonstrated outside the main Bogor police station over the matter of Alih's murder. Currently police have detained three men.

His pregnant wife, Mimin, says she is confused about the murder and that Alih bin Hadi had had no enemies. hariansib She has three children from Alih.

Rev. Irianto Kongkoli

… been solved.

__________________

January 29th 2007

Police believe that two men, Abdul Muis and Dedi Parsan, planned and carried out the shooting, the former being the one who pulled the trigger. Abdul Muis was arrested on 11th January in a raid while Dedi Parsan was killed by police on the same day. l6

Danish Cartoon Crisis II

… a government must know how to control its own people.

Amidhan of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) said that the airing of the cartoon videos showed the intolerance of the people concerned in Denmark and that freedom of expression should not allow people to insult others. Especially during Ramadan Muslims demanded respect, he said.

Din Syamsuddin of Muhammadiyah recommended that Muslims seek a legal path of redress for this insult, for example by taking the matter to the …

Freedom of Religion Report

… promulgated local laws implementing elements of Shari'a.
In June 2005 the Council of Ulemas ( MUI, various) issued eleven new fatwas (religious decrees) including one that renewed a 1980 fatwa that banned Ahmadiyya. The government formed the MUI in 1975 as the state's highest Islamic authority. Although the government also funds and appoints MUI's members, MUI is not a government body. It's edicts, or fatwas, are designed to be moral guiding principles for Muslims and, although they are …

Ramadan Discipline & Solemnity

… the chairman of the Pamekasan, Madura, East Java, branch of the cleric's council (MUI) said recently that Muslim public servants (Pegawai Negeri Sipil (PNS)) in the city who did not observe the fast during Ramadan should be punished by the local government. This, he said, would be an admirable way of giving the city's motto, Gerbang Salam, real meaning. The motto seems to mean that Pamekasan is, or should be, a place where people hold fast to the law, a law inspired by the …

Bandung Church Attack

A house-church near Bandung was attacked by a mob but police stepped in.

The report of the attack was to be found in the Jakarta Post newspaper which began the story:

The suppression of religious freedom in this predominantly Muslim nation continues in West Java , where dozens of churches and places of worship have been forcibly closed by Muslim extremists over the past year.

The …

Comment by Mohammed Khafi: … influence in MUI, that issued in July 2005 a few …

Terror Against Muslims

The Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia views the Atambua protests in a dim light.

The protests over the execution of Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus Da Silva and Marianus Riwu, which have seen the destruction of some state property by Christian mobs, are viewed by Fauzan Al-Anshari of the MMI as a form of terrorism.

Acts like that are only done by terrorists.
(Tindakan seperti itu hanya …

Comment by bravo: … radicalism, not MUI, not NU, was the Major Element who …

Jamiyatul Islamiyah

… action in West Sumatra as the city government of Padang teams up with the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), and the mob, to close down a mosque used by the heretics of the Jamiyatul Islamiyah.

The mosque, Masjid "Baitul Izza", in Jl. Proklamasi, South Padang, belonging to the Jamiyatul Islamiyah (JmI) sect, was sealed by a mob as the mayor of the city Fauzi Bahar, and the police, looked on with approval. Mayor Fauzi, who had just previously cancelled the building permit for the land on …

Comment by karisah mobarak shah: … the name that the MUI personnel conclude that it not of …

Tibo, et al. Execution

Fabianus Tibo, Dominggus Da Silva and Marianus Riwu are due to be executed on either the night of Thursday the 21st, or the morning of the 22nd.

Tibo himself was handed a letter informing him of the planned execution at around lunchtime, Monday 18th, in his isolation cell in a Palu prison. His lawyer, Roy Rening, said that the families of the men had not yet received the letter.

…

Comment by Warfreak: … living in a commuinty with muslims before, but I left …

Papal Speech

… it not wise or appropriate. He hoped the Pope would correct himself.

Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) head, Ma'ruf Amin, said it would be better if Benedict were more like his predecessor, John Paul II, in that the latter was good at building bridges between religions.

Ahmad Syafii Maarif, a former chairman of Indonesia's second largest islamic movement, the Muhammadiyah, said :

Whatever the circumstances, he as a pope should not have said things like that.

But:

Let us …

Comment by Rasyad A. Parinduri: … Hisham, to William Muir, Alfred Guillaume, or Hans Kung, …

Rebekka Zakaria, Eti Pangesti & Ratna Bangun

… Muslim parents decided, of their own free will, to send their children to. The local branch of the MUI, the Indonesian Council of Muslim Clerics, and not any of the parents, accused the women of enticing the children to convert by giving them presents. No evidence of this was given in court and no children had become Christians.

Ratna Bangun, Eti Pangesti & Rebekka Zakaria.

The women, whose names are sometimes spelled as Dr. Rebecca Laonita, Mrs Ratna Mala Bangun and Mrs Ety …

Comment by Miss Indo 07: … to” “MUI, the Indonesian Council of Muslim …

Islam is Bad for Tourism

Attempting to forbid sinful activities, such as drinking, harms the growth of tourism in Muslim areas.

Luthfi Assyaukanie mentions the success of Hindu dominated Bali in developing a thriving tourist industry, and compares it with the lack of such success of the Muslim dominated Ternate and Tidore islands in North Maluku, and also Lombok, both places being able to lay claim to having …

Comment by Adam: … amongst Muislims in the interpretation of the …

TV Temptation During Ramadan

The Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) advises what should not appear on television screens during the upcoming "holy month" of Ramadan.

Chairman of the Ulema Council, Ma'ruf Amin, warned television stations recently not to show any programs that would be offensive to the soon approaching celebration of the fasting month of Ramadhan.

Stop programs which are offensive to the Islamic holy month.
(Hentikan tayangan …

Comment by Mohammed Khafi: … is the way that MUI and the government want it, because …

Schools of Thought

… be accepted with tolerance except when they are heretical.

Ma'ruf says that the role of the MUI is to basically harden or straighten out views within Islam that are too soft or lack firmness and to soften or moderate those opinions which are too hard or unbending. He marks out the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) as one group which is in need of having its overly moderate, or tame/docile, tendencies checked. He said this during a discussion of moderate Islam in Surabaya yesterday, attended by …

Preaching Moderation

… 2nd, Ma'ruf Amin, who is also the chairman of the Fatwa Commission of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), is leading the efforts to instruct the dakwah practitioners on how to combat the teachings of both fundamentalist groups and liberal ones.

Assisting him at the two-day meeting, Samsul Ma'arif, the head of the Dakwah Committee, said that the NU felt very concerned about the increased proselytizing activities of deviant sects considering that most Muslims in Indonesia were of the …

Death Penalty

… particularly in light of the case of Fabianus Tibo, H. Amidhan, of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), said that within Islamic law the death penalty was permitted. In its application, he went on, there should be no feelings of pity for those to be punished in such a way. He urged the government to be firm in carrying out the punishment, according to the law.

Within Islam, he added, there was the provision for the carrying out of the punishment to be instead replaced by some form of …

Female Circumcision

The Ulema Council, Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), says female circumcision is necessary for Muslims.

H. Amidhan of the MUI, speaking in Banjarmasin, said that his august organisation had no problems with female circumcision, because it was a duty for Muslims, was safe and did not cause any health problems for those who underwent it.

Circumcision is especially meant to be done for a Muslim, because circumcision not only …

Comment by Achmad Sudarsono: … ? The head of the MUI ? Not such a good idea ? …

www.Anshar.net & Chatroom Jihad

Some of the creators of the jihadist website, www.anshar.net, have been arrested in Semarang, and, it turns out, Imam Samudra is still busy directing the jihad from his prison cell, via internet chat rooms.

Agung Prabowo, 23, and Agung Setyadi, 31, were arrested for allegedly having helped maintain the now shut-down www.anshar.net web site, in which, among other things, instructions were …

Comment by Agusto: … if you agree with MUI version of Islam?

West Java’s Tolerance Problem

… building.

The crowd, comprised of local officials, people from the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), youth activists from a local mosque, and other Muslim leaders, insisted that no church should be allowed in the predominantly Muslim area. Protestors demanded to see the church's building permit for worship services.

The church does not have a permit. Pastor Mathias says:

We have been trying to get a permit since the church was established in 1998.

Mathias claims that local …

Tibo Execution

… of Manada, Mgr. Joseph Suwatan, chairman of the North Sulawesi branch of Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), Arifin Asegaf, and President of Asia Fellowship of Mission 21 Partner Churches, Dr Nico Gara, were of the opinion that the execution would harm the good name of Indonesia and reflect badly on the justice system.

Jusuf Kalla, the vice president, said that the execution was no business of the government, it was a product of the legal system.

However Attorney General's Office spokesman …

Love Thy Neighbour

… 71.7% of people supported the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), 59.1% were favourable to the Ulema Council (MUI), while 16.9% were admirers of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI).

August 27th, 2006.

The pdf of this survey has become available.

87.6% of respondents were Muslim, 10.4% Christian, 1.5% Hindu, 0.5% Buddhist. 39.8% Javanese, 14% Sundanese, 3.4% Malay, 3.9% Madurese, 3.7% Minang, 3.8% Bugis, 2.2% Betawi, 29.8% other.

Questions:

Are you bothered or not bothered if you live next …

Lebanese Jihad

… The government was doing all it could, he said.

The same day the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) said it could not forbid anyone from going to wage holy war. Kholil Ridwan of the MUI:

That's a person's right, as long as he can get himself there. If he wants to go to heaven there, go ahead.
(Itu kan hak dia, selama bisa berangkat sendiri ya baik-baik saja. Kalau dia mau cari surga disana yang silahkan saja.)

On 8th August National Police Brigadier General Anton Bachrul Alam is …

North Jakarta Prostitution

… to prostitutes and gambling.

At a meeting of the north Jakarta branches of both NU and the MUI the owners of cafes/bars and restaurants in the area were ordered to stop allowing prostitutes to meet up with potential customers on their premises. Thus spake one Syaekhun, the head of the north Jakarta NU, in a meeting with the ponderous title of "Diskusi Masalah Keagamaan antara MUI Jakut dengan NU Jakut," Discussion of Religious Problems between the MUI and NU in north Jakarta. The …

Morality Law for Depok

… he said, and added:

We've already met with groups like the FPI [Islam Defenders Front], MUI [Ulema Council], and others.
(Kemarin kita sudah bertemu dengan ormas seperti FPI, MUI dan LSM lainnya.)

In more cosmopolitan Jakarta however, two of the candidates for the offices of mayor and vice-mayor have publicly distanced themselves from the idea of applying similar laws in the capital city. Economist Faisal Basri and former environment minister Sarwono Kusumaatmaja have both said …

Israel & Lebanon II

… Protestant Churches Council, (PGI) Andreas Dewangoe, chairman of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), Amidhan, and Muslim spiritual guru Abdullah Gymnastiar alias Aa Gym, among others. Representatives of the UN however did not meet the group.

Andreas Yewangoe, of the PGI, said, according to Antara:

We condemn the Israeli aggression. Its actions are beyond humanity, they have to be stopped. We also call on religious communities in the world to pray for peace in the Middle East. …

Comment by Miss Indo 07: … n FPI n NU n MUI n else… haha,just go to hell …

Christian Law

… Islamiyah Indonesia (DDII), in speaking to a national conference of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI) in Jakarta, on the 25th, said that sexual sin was opposed by Islam, Christianity, and Judaism together, with almost equal ferocity in the area of prescribed punishments among the three religions.

Take the Bible for example, sexual immorality is regarded as a very serious crime that can be punished by stoning to death, even by burning alive, as can be seen in the Book of Deuteronomy, …

Ban Playboy

The chairman of the Ulema Council, the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), has asked the government to ban Playboy magazine.

Din Syamsuddin, of the MUI, said :

If need be the president himself should take firm action.
(Kalau perlu Presiden sendiri yang bertindak tegas.)

Din said Playboy had violated the law in that it was obscene. What's more it was distributed in an unrestricted manner, freely available on the streets to anyone, including …

The Jakarta Charter

… on the same day, Din Syamsuddin, in his role as a leader of the Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI), said that Islam was not in conflict with Pancasila, and that the latter should be the basis of the state forever.

The Muslim community feels that it has a big stake in the form of the state and also feels that it has a responsibility to uphold it.
(Umat Islam merasa memiliki saham yang besar dalam pembentukan negara dan juga merasa mempunyai tanggungjawab untuk mempertahankannya.) …