Old Traditions & Customs

… for the future of the island’s culture if fanaticism continues to rise unchecked. Will Java to itself be true?

Comment by Ross: … are winning. The PKS for example, had me thinking they …

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 …

Comment by djoko: … you guessed it, PKS. inilah.com …

People Not Voting

People not participating in elections, fit to be stripped of Indonesian nationality or sinful.

The proportion of registered voters not taking part in regional and city elections (Golput (golongan putih atau tidak memilih)) this year averages around 40% and the matter has created some controversy.

In early July leader of PDI Perjuangan, Megawati Soekarnoputri, said at a campaign rally …

Comment by dewaratugedeanom: … Well I’m voting PKS because I want to see minorities …

Political Campaign Posters & Slogans

… election held on July 23rd:

Soekarwo-Saifullah Yusuf (Partai Demokrat, PAN, (& PKS)) - 27%
Khofifah Indar Parawansa-Mudjiono (PPP & PKPB, PBR, PNBK, PPNUI, PKPI, PDS, Partai Merdeka, PNI Marhaenisme, Partai Pelopor, PBSD, PSI) - 25%
Sutjipto-Ridwan Hisyam (PDI Perjuangan) - 21%
Soenarjo-Ali Maschan Musa (Golkar) - 19%
Achmady-Suhartono (PKB-Gus Dur) - 8%

Turnout was around 60%. okezone

Results seemed to be based largely on how popular and …

Political Acronym List

… Sejahtera, PDS

Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan, PDIP

Partai Keadilan Sejahtera, PKS

Partai Demokrat, PD

Partai Golkar

Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa, PKB

Partai Persatuan Pembangunan, PPP

Partai Keadilan dan Persatuan Indonesia, PKPI

Partai Demokrasi Kebangsaan, PDK

Partai Nasional Indonesia (PNI) Marhaenisme

Partai Pelopor

Partai Penegak Demokrasi Indonesia, PPDI

Partai Karya Peduli Bangsa, PKPB

Another 18 …

Comment by Rambutan: … Islamic parties (PKS figures Anis Matta and Fahri Hamzah …

Mega 2009

… Megawati's best chance of success is thought to lie in an alliance with Hidayat Nurwahid of the PKS (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera), with Maruarar Sirait of the PDIP suggesting the two would be an unbeatable team, with the PKS strong in the towns, the PDIP strong in the villages.
Hidayat Nur Wahid
However Mohamad Nabil of the Centre for Religion and Culture at UIN says the PKS in joining up with Megawati would ruin its reputation for consistency, given that it has in the past rejected …

Bibit–Rustriningsih

Bibit–Rustriningsih's win in Central Java continues PDI-P domination, with the PKS a distant third.

Early results for the Central Java governor's election:

Bibit–Rustriningsih ( PDI Perjuangan ) about 43%
Bambang Sadono-Muhammad Adnan (Golkar (& NU)) 23%
Sukawi Sutarip-Sudharto (PKS & PD) 15%
Muhammad Tamzil-Abdul Rozaq Raiz (PPP & PAN) 12%
Agus Soeyitno-Abdul Kholiq Arif (PKB) 7%

Turnout was in the range of 55-65%. …

Comment by Rob: The PKS power base remains Jakarta and West …

Seeds of Conflict in Papua

… brand of Christianity to the province, and this creates its own problems, he said. ranesi

Comment by Abdul Khalid al Jumhuri: … high official of PKS. I personally know some of them …

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 Odinius: … the success of the PKS are disturbing.

My Friend the Fanatic

… book and in other places..., is a legitimate value judgement about culture-religion as well.

PKS

The overall message of the book is that Islamist political and cultural forces are gaining the upper hand in Indonesia, most starkly seen in the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood affiliated Justice Party (PKS) - the PKS is mentioned again and again, Dhume I think has the same "problem" as this site sometimes has - an over pre-occupation with what is still a fairly minor party.

It is said …

Comment by Shloka: … know whether PKS will keep their promise once they …

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 Saipul: … Sejahtera (PKS) - the honorable Mr. Soeripto. If …

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 anti suripto: … orang alim masuk PKS. Padahal Suripto dulu juga yang …

Blaming the Victim & Others

… of Commission III in the House of Representatives (DPR) from the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS/Partai Keadilan Sejahtera), says he suspects the FPI violence was part of an anti-Islam American plot.

Soeripto

Soeripto, who has a long history of work in the intelligence field, said Mossad and CIA had already taken over most militant organisations in the world, so they had probably taken over the FPI, and added that Al Qaeda in Afghanistan remained the only "pure" movement left. …

Comment by pribumi: … other (Suripto - PKS vs FPI) thinking that their …

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 Abdul Khalid al Jumhuri: … kata Bp. Soeripto (PKS) FPI=agen Zionis, CIA, Yahudi! …

PKS & Tifatul Sembiring

… recent electoral wins, and chances of success for 2009 general and presidential elections.

PKS Ideology

Eep Saefullah, a political analyst from the University of Indonesia, says the PKS /Justice Party/Partai Keadilan Sejahtera, owes much of its recent electoral success to obfuscating its true nature as a radical Islamist movement inspired by the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.

After they failed to achieve their [electoral] target in 1999, they made a big and important …

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 Berlian Biru: … victory of the PKS party in West Java. Should I be …

Wag the Dog à la Indonesia

… place? Will tolerance resurrect and save the people from doom?

As always, we shall wait and see.

Comment by Achmad Sudarsono: … ? I was thinking PKS, but have to get up at 4 a.m. In …

Impatient People

Impatient people in West Java province who can't wait for the banning of the Ahmadiyah sect.

Today the government's joint edict on whether to ban Ahmadiyah is expected, while some in the last few days have been rather impatient for it.

West Java

Police general Abu Bakar said on 21st April that West Java (see West Java's Tolerance Problem and Persecuted Churches for more on …

Comment by trane: … of mentioning PKS was more to say that of course …

Diana Abbas Thalib

… wife-to-be, the lovely widow Diana Abbas Thalib of Kemang.

Engagement

On 16th April PKS leader Hidayat Nurwahid became engaged to a 42 year old woman of Arab descent, Diana Abbas Thalib.

Proposing.

Widow & Widower

Diana Abbas Thalib is the director of a maternity hospital in Jakarta and lives in swanky Kemang. She has one child from a previous marriage (her husband died) and on May 10th, the wedding day, will come into possession of four more, from Hidayat's …

Modern Day Witch Hunt

… was no one left to speak out.

Stop the persecution of Jamaah Ahmadiyah members! Defend Ahmadiyah!

Comment by djoko: … of his articles on PKS previous for something I was doing …

Ahmadiyah (Nearly) Banned

A formal banning of the unorthodox Muslim sect Jamaah Ahmadiyah becomes more likely.

A Step Closer

Team Pakem (Badan Koordinasi Pengawas Aliran Kepercayaan Masyarakat (Bakor Pakem)), the body that oversees (unorthodox) religious activity in Indonesia, has recommended that all activities of the sect Jemaah Ahmadiyah Indonesia (JAI) be stopped and the JAI dissolved.

Wisnu Subroto of …

Comment by Sylvester: … Islam sponsored by PKS. A group of hardliner intellectuals …

Syamsul Arifin & Gatot Pujo Nugroho

The PKS continues its mini winning streak in regional elections, this time in North Sumatra.

Early results in the North Sumatra election point to a win for Syamsul Arifin and Gatot Pujo Nugroho, backed by a coalition of Islamist parties, the PKS (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera), PPP (Partai Persatuan Pembangunan), and PBB (Partai Bulan Bintang).

Initial Results

Syamsul Arifin and Gatot …

Ahmad Heryawan & Dede Yusuf

… Coalitions

Ahmad Heryawan and Dede Yusuf were supported by a coalition of the Justice Party (PKS) and the National Mandate Party (PAN).

Ahmad Heryawan.

Agum Gumelar and Numan Abdul Hakim were supported by a polyglot coalition including the Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), the United Development Party (PPP), the National Awakening Party (PKB) and the Crescent Star Party (PBB).

Danny Setiawan, the incumbent governor, and Iwan Sulanjana were the nominees of Golkar and the …

Comment by trane: … of voters by PKS to explain HADE’s success. …

PDI Perjuangan

Whether the PDI-P is a party of thugs, Christians and communists.

Taufiq Kiemas says the PDI Perjuangan no longer wants to be known as a non-Muslim political party, or what was probably worse, a party of street toughs, Christians and communists.

Taufiq Kiemas and other half.

The allegation of the PDI-P being a haven for communists was particularly hurtful, he said

The saddest …

Comment by djoko: … (PKB, PAN, PKS) or dying slow horrible deaths …

Khofifah Indar Parawansa

… to run a joint ticket with another Islamic party, the Justice Party, Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS), in order to reach the 15% electoral threshold needed to compete, and give them a chance of victory, however slim, against the heavyweight parties of Golkar, PDI-P, and PKB.

However on the same day as the announcement PKS official Muhammad Siroj said the Syariah Council of the East Java branch of the Justice Party is reluctant to support a woman for the position of provincial …

Comment by Lairedion: … Rambutan, Let PKS sort that out for itself. If they …

Film Ayat Ayat Cinta

… by some on the Islamist side of politics, including parliament chairman Hidayat Nur Wahid of the PKS, who on 7th March met with some of the cast and crew of the film. Hidayat said he hadn't seen the film, and he hoped there was no violence or pornography in it, but he had read the book and liked it.

Ayat Ayat Cinta novel.

Hidayat said the book's author, Habiburrahman El-Shiraz, was a good example of a new generation of writers who had attended Islamic boarding schools ( pesantren …

Comment by Riyoz: ‘No wonder PKS like this movie.’ Do they …

List of Indonesian Billionaires

The world's billionaires, and which Indonesians are among them.

Indonesian citizens who made it onto the Forbes' "The World's Billionaires" list, out of a total of 1125 people worldwide: forbes

Sukanto Tanoto.

Sukanto Tanoto (Chinese name - Chen Jianghe), originally from Medan in North Sumatra, and owner of the holding company PT Raja Garuda Mas International (RGM …

Comment by Purba Negoro: … of a pribumi hat. PKSP and BLBI shall hopefully return …

Female Genital Mutilation

Foreign efforts to eradicate female genital mutilation.

United Nations

On February 27th ten United Nations agencies pledged to engage in a renewed effort to eliminate female genital mutilation (FGM), or female circumcision , within a generation.

UN Deputy Secretary General Asha-Rose Migiro said:

If we can come together for a sustained push, female genital mutilation can vanish …

Comment by Lairedion: … to death, why the PKS is holding a party congress in …

Perlombaan Senjata

… Serikat juga menawarkan bantuan militer sebesar $16 juta.

Politikus Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS), Mutammimul Ula, memperingatkan agar Indonesia berhati-hati dalam membeli persenjataan dari Amerika Serikat, mengingat baru-baru ini embargo 10 tahun penjualan senjata ke Indonesia masih berlaku.

Pembelian Senjata - Rusia

Mutammimul Ula juga menyatakan bahwa, ditinjau dari sisi teknologi, F-16 merupakan barang lama. Sementara itu, Juwono menyatakan bahwa F-16 dibutuhkan karena adanya …

Regional Arms Race

… Mutammimul Ula

A politician from the Islamist Justice Party (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS)), Mutammimul Ula, warns that Indonesia should beware of buying arms from the United States, considering it wasn't long ago that the ten-year arms embargo was still in place. antara

Arms Acquisitions - Russia

Mutammimul Ula also complains that the F-16's are comparatively old technology, from the early 1990's, while Juwono Sudarsono explains that the F-16's are needed given the …

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 djoko: … seen the Islamic PKS’ anti-corruption platform in the …

Kontes Kecantikan Miss Indonesia

… 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 lain di Indonesia lebih cocok:

"Jadi silahkan grand final Miss …

Miss Indonesia

… 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 suitable:

Just move the contest to another area. …

Comment by Toni: … MUI, Golkar, and PKS : stop being moral police as if you …

Keragaman Budaya

Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) melebarkan jangkauan daerah dan budayanya di Bali.

PKS yang merupakan partai politik Islam menyelenggarakan Musyawarah Kerja Nasional (Mukernas) di Sanur, Bali, awal Februari lalu. Pertemuan tersebut dilaksananakan di tiga hotel yang berbeda, yakni Grand Bali Beach, Sanur Beach, dan Sanur Paradise Plaza. Sekitar 2000 peserta datang dari Jakarta dan propinsi-propinsi sekitarnya, dan …

Cultural Diversity

The PKS broadens its electoral and cultural horizons, in Bali.

The Islamist political party, Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (Justice Party, PKS), holds its national meeting in Sanur, Bali in early February, spread over three lovely hotel locations, Grand Bali Beach, Sanur Beach, and Sanur Paradise Plaza, bringing about 2,000 participants from Jakarta and the provinces, led by parliament …

Comment by Odinius: … very nice of PKS to invite non-Muslims to join the …

Persecuted Church

Why there are so many attacks on churches in western Java.

Persecuted Churches Nationally

On 14th January members of the Himpunan Warga Gereja Indonesia (HAGAI), Indonesian Churchgoers Association, visited the offices of the National Human Rights Commission, (Komnas HAM) in Jakarta to complain about attacks against churches and Christian congregations around the country.

Pastor …

Comment by Rambutan: … say, Yogyakarta. PKS for example grew out of student …

Islam Lunak

… Golkar, PDI-P, dan PD) dengan mudah mengalahkan partai-partai "Islam" (seperti PKB, PPP, PAN, PKS, dan PBB) (walau begitu ada baiknya untuk melihat pendapat masyarakat muda akan partai Islam dan partai sekuler).

Sementara ekstremis Islam seperti Abu Bakar Baasyir menerima banyak perhatian, liputan tersebut menyatakan bahwa kaum Muslim liberal tengah berupaya untuk memutuskan hubungan antara ketaatan beragama dengan Islam politis. Usaha ini mengakibatkan timbulnya gerakan "Soft …

Soft Islamization

… parties (defined as Golkar, PDI-P, PD) easily beat "Islamic" parties (defined as PKB, PPP, PAN, PKS, PBB) (although they might want to look at youth trends and check their definition of Islamist vs secular parties ).

While noisy fundamentalists such as Abu Bakar Baasyir get a lot of attention the article claims that liberal Muslims are quietly working to break the links between religious devotion and political Islam, bringing about the creation of an Islam Lunak, "soft Islam" …

Comment by agam: … position. I voted PKS in 2004, in 1999 I voted PAN. Those …

Banning Islamic Sects

… as demos in a number of other cities, calling on the state to defend religious freedom. detik

Comment by agam: … transformed into PKS, Dewan Dakwah Islamiyah and Hizbut …

Pesta Tahun Baru

… 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' asalkan mereka juga menyediakan pilihan lain yang lebih bermanfaat.

Renungan

Sementara itu, Ahmad Bagja dari Nadhlatul Ulama (NU) hanya menyarankan karena keadaan bangsa yang sedang susah, perayaan malam tahun baru jangan sampai berlebihan, namun hendaknya mengikuti norma …

New Year’s Eve Parties

… 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 more respectable. detik

Reflection

Meanwhile Ahmad Bagdja of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) simply advised that since the times were difficult for many people celebrations of New Years Eve should not go over the top, should be …

The Jakarta Pest

… Havana, sorry, Jakarta Post, should give an ersatz American's anti-Americanism such star billing.

Comment by Djoko: … values (the PKS) was routinely savaged in the JP, …

Stoning

… Ngruki boarding school - 0.4%, 0.6%

MMI - 0.5%, 0.4%.

HTI - 0.5%, 0.4%.

PKS, Justice Party - 1.5%, 2.2%

General Election

Which party would you vote for if an election were held today?

PDIP - 20%

PD - 14%

Golkar - 17.5%

PAN - 3%

PKB - 4%

PPP - 4%

PKS - 4%

Other - 4.5%

Don't know/Won't answer - 29%

Sutiyoso

… Court head Jimly Asshiddiqie, and President of the Justice Party/ Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) Tifatul Sembiring, Jeffrie said. suaramerdeka

Before his term as governor, Lieutenant General Sutiyoso spent 25 years in the Army's Special Forces, Kopassus, before several years as the Jakarta city military commander, when he was the immediate supervisor of president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Most recently he inadvertently created a mini anti-Australian uproar over rude treatment …

Priyo Budi Santoso

Golkar's religious roadshow, led by Priyo Budi Santoso.

On 28th August a delegation from the 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 …

Comment by Djoko: … few days ago that PKS is styling itself as ‘religious …

Secularism

Secularism is not to be feared by Muslims.

Azyumardi Azra said in Jakarta on 20th August that religion in Indonesia would flourish in a secular environment, would be reborn in a new and dynamic fashion. While most people think that modernisation naturally brings about:

Secularism that causes religion to decline, become irrelevant, and even die.

In fact, while this does occur to …

Comment by Djoko: … religious (PKS as an example) or otherwise not …

Hizb ut-Tahrir

Hizb ut-Tahrir's caliphate conference in Jakarta.

About 70,000 people attended the International Khilafah Conference at Senayan stadium in Jakarta on 13th August hosted by Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), in the interests of furthering the goal of restoring the caliphate , or worldwide Islamic state .

Hizb ut-Tahrir.

Waving flags and chanting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great), the …

Comment by Djoko: … close to the PKS, but in recent times he’s …

Jakarta Election Result

Ross is less than enthused about Fauzi Bowo's election as Jakarta governor.

The election result in Jakarta's gubernatorial vote on 8th August, with the establishment candidate Fauzi Bowo 's decisive victory, was not exactly surprising but it is important that outside observers should not interpret the strong challenge from Adang Daradjatun, a prominent member of a Muslim party, the …

Comment by Naga: … since when PKS had anything to do with ‘Islamist …

Book Burning

… carried out public burnings.

On 7th July the mayor of Depok, Nurmahmudi Ismail, from the PKS, Justice Party (Partai Keadilan Sejahtera), presided at the burning of 2,500 of the seized books. antara And on 30th July in Bogor 1,340 books were burned outside the Attorney General's building. tempo

Nur Mahmudi Ismail of Depok, cheerful.

On 1st August writer Goenawan Mohamad, at a function at the Utan Kayu Theatre in Jakarta, complained of the book burnings:

Why are …

Comment by anonymous_aloy: … Mahmudi Ismail of PKS participate in this shameful act.

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 dawud farquhar: … the stance of the PKS who were treading a moderate line …

Bra Cleavage

The PKS wants no association with bra cleavage.

The new tabloid monthly "Jakarta Untuk Semua", Jakarta For All, published an editorial on the Partai Keadilan Sejahtera, Justice Party (PKS), in its third (July) issue calling the PKS a "wishy washy" party, among other unflattering things. The editorial was superimposed over an upper body shot picture of a woman wearing only a bra.

The …

Comment by Teng: … that pisses off PKS is good in my book.

Black Magic Spells

The dark arts are at play in the Jakarta election.

Major General (ret.) Prijanto, the running mate of Fauzi Bowo for the Jakarta governor's election , complained to a prayer gathering on 2nd August of 3000 people marking the coming occasion (11th August) of the celebration of Muhammad's magical journey on a flying horse to heaven that black magic rituals were being used in the election …

Pragmatic Politics

… versus religious zeal.

The support of the Justice Party, Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) for the candidacy of Adang Daradjatun in the Jakarta governor's election leads Reform Institute Director Yudhi Latif to believe that the clash between everyday, practical politics and its requirements, and the traditional religious zeal of the PKS's most enthusiastic supporters is coming out into the open.

By supporting Adang the PKS is forced to support his program and policies, Yudhi …

Comment by Djoko: … version from PKS) you are shouted down as being …

Transnational Islam

Nahdlatul 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:

…

Comment by Djoko: … groups (*cough* PKS/tarbiyah *cough*) are tapping into …

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 Odinius: … of want sharia” PKS got 7%. Together that’s 16%. …

Golkar PDI-P Alliance

… country. okezone

Tifatul Sembiring.

The President of the Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) Tifatul Sembiring believes the two parties apparently fear losing to a PKS candidate in the 2009 presidential election. Given that his party won only 7% of the vote in 2004 Tifatul said Golkar and PDI-P were being irrational and paranoid. He said he was opposed to the nationalist versus Islamic dichotomy, the PKS combined the two streams into one. detik

Tight Clothing

… law on campuses.

A spokesman for KAMMI, which is affiliated to the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), Rusmadi, said:

Islamic law is meant to be applied in all places, so we demand that sharia be upheld properly on campuses.

The marchers carried posters that said things like:

We need sharia to be actually applied, not just exist on paper. Uphold sharia on campus. Don't make my campus a place of sin, those who violate sharia law can go to hell.

Rusmadi complained:

There …

Comment by Rani: … in line with KAMMI/PKS type of islam. The women in Aceh …

Yusron Mahmudi/Ainul Bahri

… National Mandate Party (PAN, West Sumatra), and Al Muzzamil Yusuf of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS, Lampung) said besides filing a protest with the National Police, they would ask the National Commission on Human Rights to investigate the case to determine what possible human rights violations occurred in Dujana's arrest.

They also called on the National Commission on Child Protection to pay great attention to healing the psychological impact of Dujana's arrest on his three …

Pagan Rituals

Indonesian Muslims are urged to defend their practice of Islam against 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. …

Comment by Achmad Sudarsono: … Nahdlatul Ulama, PKS, and, of course, the sensible, …

Preachers in Politics

… opposed to mixing religion and politics made his feelings known outside the Depok offices of the PKS, Justice Party, by throwing a molotov cocktail at it. A car was burned but no-one was hurt. Depok, near Jakarta, is governed by the PKS.

PKS Depok head Prihandoko said the party had received a number of threatening sms messages recently complaining about the religious nature of the PKS, although he couldn't be sure if the two things were related. detik

May 31st 2007. …

Inter-Parliamentary Union

… meeting at Nusa Dua, Bali from April 29th to May 4th, 2007.

The Justice and Prosperity Party (PKS) has led the opposition to the visit. PKS President, Tifatul Sembiring asked the government to not allow the Israeli MP's to visit, as a sign of Indonesia's outrage at Israeli human rights crimes. tempo

A Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) leader, Said Agil Siroth, said the NU had no problem with the visit. metrotv However Malik Haramain, the leader of the NU's youth wing, Gerakan Pemuda (GP) …

Biblical Law

Laws based on the bible in Papua.

The regency government of Manokwari in West Papua (West Irian Jaya) is considering enacting laws based on the Bible.

Specifically there are said to be ranesi proposed laws against alcohol and prostitution, regulations on dress and worship, including bans on the display of symbols of a "certain religion", and bans on the building of houses of worship …

Comment by Abdul Khalid al Jumhuri: … that leaders of PKS and other hard liner Moslems are …

Partai Keadilan Sejahtera

The Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS) as a nationalist party and the Jakarta governor's election.

The Justice/Welfare Party's leader Tifatul Sembiring said on 26th March that the PKS was a nationalist party, in fact more nationalist than those parties which usually have the label, because the PKS loved the unitary republic of Indonesia and struggled for its advancement. The party worked within the legal framework …

Comment by Bogalakon: … beating PKS. Enjoy the flood, Jakarta! Salam …

Tamsil Linrung

A PKS politician is prevented from boarding a flight to Canada.

Tamsil Linrung was prevented from boarding a Cathay Pacific Airways flight to Canada, leaving from Jakarta's Soekarno-Hatta international airport on March 21st, because, so it is said antara , airport authorities had been informed by US embassy officials that Tamsil was an undesirable passenger. He was part of a …

Comment by riccardo: … of both the PKS and HMI. He then left PAN and …

Hidayat Nur Wahid

… Nur Wahid, one of the leaders of the parliament from the Islamist Justice Party, PKS, spoke recently on the topic of the "Beauty of Sharia" at the Islamic Book Fair (IBF) in Jakarta.

He said people had to understand that there were many different kinds of Muslim and that they had different understandings of sharia. Some Muslims thought of sharia in purely legalistic terms, others thought of it in terms of encouraging good character and behaviour. From the legalistic angle …

Star of David

The PKS in Madura tries to root out symbols of Judaism.

The head of the organising committee of the Partai Keadilan Sejehtera (PKS), or Welfare/Justice Party, in Sumenep, eastern Madura, East Java, one Ach Ready, has threatened to erase some kind of artwork, perhaps a mural, at the Adipura park in the city, which he says is a six sided star and therefore looks like the Star of David on the …

Comment by emuh: … stupid party like PKS that is racist, narrow-minded, full …

Headscarf Ban

… on 17th May 2007 received a special award from the Justice Party, Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS), for struggling for the rights of women to wear headscarfs, the PKS Award. After receiving the honour she said she hoped all Muslim women would obey the dictates of God and, for example, cover their hair. okezone

Capital Punishment

Capital punishment is opposed to the Constitution, says Todung Mulya Lubis.

Todung Mulya Lubis, a lawyer representing four condemned-to-death narcotics offenders in Jakarta, says that the death penalty is in contradiction of the 1945 constitution, given that the constitution guarantees the right each citizen to live his life.

Todung Mulya Lubis.

Additionally, he says that the …

Comment by Achmad Sudarsono: … imagine what the PKS would say ? * A Singapore …

Islamic Political Unity

… Hamid and Hasbi Abdullah (PPP & ex-GAM) with 16.73%, Azwar Abubakar and Nasir Jamil (PAN & PKS) with 11.03%, Iskandar Hosein and Saleh Manaf (PBB & seven small parties) with 6.42%, and Tamlicha Ali and Herman Nuriqman (PBR-PPNU-PKB) with just 3.87%. Add all those votes together, he said, and an Islamic candidate would have won, provided that all the Islam based parties had agreed to join forces for the election.

Forming coalitions in Aceh was especially important, he said, …

Nur Mahmudi Ismail

… and public servants working for the Depok city administration were having the ideology of the PKS forced onto them.

Big in Depok, Nur Mahmudi Ismail.

As an example he said that employees who did not attend religious services held by the PKS were unlikely to see their careers blossom. He named mayor Nur Mahmudi, who has been in office since 2005 when he won 44% of the vote, as the figure behind the policy of "encouraging" employees to attend the services, which are conducted by …

Partai Hanura

… Wiranto says Hanura will seek to imitate the Justice Party, Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS), in its upholding of high moral values and good character, and will seek to recruit members who are pure of heart.

He said the party had managed to attract a number of experienced political figures including Nico Daryanto, Fuad Bawazier, Samuel Kotto (formerly of PAN), Djafar Badjeber (the founder of the PBR, Partai Bintang Reformasi) and Ary Mardjono (former secretary general of Golkar). …

Irwandi Yusuf & Muhammad Nazar

… Tamiang, and Aceh Singkil.

Bringing up the rear are Azwar Abubakar and Nasir Jamil from PAN and PKS with 140,792 votes (12,5%), Iskandar Husein and M Saleh Manaf with 79,743 votes (7%), Ghazali Abbas Adan and Salahuddin Al Fata with 71,172 votes (6,3%), Tamlicha Ali and Harmen Nuriqmar with 50,152 votes (4,5%), and hopelessly unpopular are Djali Yusuf and RA Syaukas Rahmatillah with 39,652 votes (3,5%).

The KIP has yet to receive ballot boxes from Sabang, Aceh Jaya, Bireuen, East Aceh …

RUU Pornografi

… Additionally, the ten parties represented on the special committee, from the Islamist PKS to the secular PDIP, have all agreed on the new form of the bill. metrotv

The belly button issue seems to have been settled.

It is hoped that the bill will come before parliament in the next session, between January and April 2007. Said Zaenal Maarif detik , in likely reference to the objections previously raised by non-Muslim areas of the country, such as in Bali : …

Ratu Atut Chosiyah

… Marissa Haque, representing the Partai Syarikat Islam (PSI) and the Partai Keadilan Sejahtera (PKS), it appears, according to the latest results, that the team of Ratu Atut Chosiyah (who is the present governor) and M. Masduki (deputy governor), from the "secular" parties of PDI Perjuangan and Golkar respectively, have won the day in Banten, on the far western tip of Java, near Jakarta.

Ratu Atut Chosiyah.

Ratu Atut had previously again won the PDI's nomination for gubernatorial …

War Criminal

… the speaker of parliament (DPR RI) and a former leader of the Islamist Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), said in Magelang, Central Java, on the 23rd of November, that president Bush of the United States was a war criminal and the Indonesian parliament should take the initiative and report him to the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Netherlands.

Hidayat Nur Wahid.

Speaking after he had officiated at the opening of the Jami mosque at the Gontor VI Darul Qiyam Islamic …

Comment by penggunabusway: … issues in his party, PKS