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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
Minister of Religion Ruby Cholil Qoumas describes various behaviors that are considered the origin of movement formation Islamic populism in the homeland.
Yaqut said one of them is intolerance, which tends to create a feel-good attitude about what the group believes, while the opposite group considers itself wrong.
Islamic populism itself, according to Yaqut, is an effort to bring religious values to a norm of conflict that is feared to disrupt the state structure.
“We are now or in recent years, we feel how religion has or is trying to make religion become the norm of conflict,” Yaqut said in the Webinar of the National Interreligious Gathering broadcast through the YouTube Channel of Public Relations from the Metro Jaya Police, on Sunday (12/27).
“In the most extreme language, whoever has different beliefs, then he is considered an opponent or enemy, whose name is an enemy or an opponent must be fought. That is the norm that had developed yesterday or the fresh term Islamic populism”, explained.
He also claimed that he did not want Islamic populism to spread across the country. However, he did not mention which group or movement was trying to mobilize Islamic populism in Indonesia.
“I don’t want, of course, that not all of us want Islamic populism to develop so much that we are overwhelmed by it,” Yaqut said.
Starting from this condition, Yaqut called on all religious communities to make religion an inspiration, not an aspiration.
He said that the thought has a philosophical meaning that religions should respect and tolerate each other.
As minister of religion, Yaqut also invited all religious communities in the country to agree with the philosophy of forming a state. He stressed that Indonesia stands as an intercultural and religious agreement in the country.
If there is a part that feels more sincere and is not willing to respect the followers of other religions, this, according to Yaqut, shows that these citizens do not practice the philosophy of the state itself.
“So whoever wants to eliminate each other on the basis of religion, that means they don’t recognize Indonesia. They don’t have a sense of Indonesian,” Yaqut concluded.
(khr / wis)
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