Now public officials are prohibited from having contact with the former FPI and HTI

Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –

Minister of Administrative Reform and Bureaucratic Reform (PANRB) Tjahjo kumolo prohibit the civil state apparatus (ASN) or public officials (Officials) connect or support all banned organizations, including the Islamic Defenders Front or REIT.

This order was transmitted through the Joint Circular of the Minister of PANRB and the Head of BKN No. 2 of 2001 No. 2 / SE / I / 2021 issued on Monday (1/25).

‘Promulgate prohibitions for ASN to affiliate and / or support prohibited organizations and / or social organizations whose legal status has been revoked, ‘wrote the letter.

‘Organizations that are currently declared banned and / or community organizations whose legal status has been revoked are the Communist Party of Indonesia, Jamaah Islamiyah, the Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar), Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) and the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), ‘the connection.

It is also emphasized in the circular that the ASN is prohibited from becoming a member or having other ties, providing support, sympathizing with participating in illegal organizational activities, or revoking its legal status.

Nor can ASN use symbols and attributes, or express any relationship with prohibited organizations or whose legal status is revoked through social networks and other means.

If it is shown that you have violated these rules, Staff Development Officers in each agency are assigned to impose disciplinary sanctions on the ASN, ranging from mild to severe in accordance with statutory regulations.

Tjahjo said the letter was a follow-up to the government’s steps to confirm the dissolution of the FPI. It considered that regulations related to ASN elements were needed.

The ban, he said, was carried out so that ASN respects its basic values ​​and obligations. He said that ASN is the unifier of the nation based on Pancasila, the Constitution of 1945 and Law Number 5 of 2014 on ASN.

‘ASN’s involvement in supporting and / or affiliating with banned organizations and / or social organizations that have been revoked from their legal status can lead to negative radicalism in the ASN environment and should therefore be avoided., ‘written in the circular.

Previously, the government adopted a series of measures following the decision to dissolve the FPI as a community organization at the end of 2020. One of them was the blocking of 92 accounts belonging to the FPI. Over a nearby period of time, FPI figure Rizieq Shihab was arrested by the police and detained by the police in connection with the mob case.

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