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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
Ulema Council of Indonesia (MUI) the 2020-2025 management period was officially announced on Wednesday night (11/26). Several new names appeared, the old faces disappeared with the announcement. Miftachul Akhyar as General President of the MUI for the period 2020-2025.
For example, the name Din Syamsuddin and several identical ulamas were associated with the expulsion from the management of Action 212. The name Din was changed to Ma’ruf Amin. The Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia currently serves as Chairman of the MUI Advisory Council.
From the management structure that was opened to the public, in addition to the name of the missing Din, the names of former treasurer Yusuf Muhammad Martak, former wasekjen Tengku Zulkarnain and former secretary of Wantim Bachtiar Nasir were also missing. All four are known as figures who have harshly criticized the government. Din is active in the Coalition for Action to Save Indonesia (WE), and the last three names are leaders of Action 212.
The political observer from the University of Al-Azhar Indonesia, Ujang Komarudin, assessed that Ma’ruf Amin’s dominance and strength in MUI was very obvious. Opening the strong suspicion of government interference in the umbrella of the ulama.
“You could say that there was some kind of interference because Ma’ruf Amin is the vice president. Of course the government wants the ulama council to be under control. So that their criticisms are lost and can be controlled,” Ujang told CNNIndonesia.com, Friday (11/27).
As is known, approximately two years have passed since Ma’ruf participated in power politics. In late 2018, he ran for vice president alongside incumbent Joko Widodo. At the time, he was serving as Rais Aam PBNU and President of MUI. He left his position at PBNU, but not with a position at MUI.
Ma’ruf, at this year’s MUI National Conference, led the Formation Team consisting of 17 ulama. This team has the authority to determine who will command MUI, including the MUI President General. Ujang maintains that this scenario is similar to what happened in the RI of the DPR. The field of government welcomed as many coalition partners as possible and eliminated those who were in contention.
Ujang said MUI was very strategic for the government. Because this mass organization brings together various Islamic mass organizations in one place. Meanwhile, the government has a problem with the right-wing Islamic group that Rizieq Shihab has orchestrated. By cooperating with MUI, he said, the government’s position would certainly be more secure.
“If MUI is not carried out, it will be dangerous. The test was in the days of Mr Ma’ruf Amin during the Ahok demonstration, that MUI kept going up,” he said.
On the other hand, LIPI political researcher Siti Zuhro evaluated that there was an effort to standardize the votes in MUI. He compared it to the way the New Order government reached out to community groups.
Siti sees that there are efforts by government supporters to equalize the voice among the people. One of them is at MUI. Siti called him state corporatism.
“You must leave state corporatism. All co-opted, all existing powers co-opted, that’s the New Order. This is the Reform Order that shouldn’t be, “Siti told CNNIndonesia.com, Friday (11/27).
He argued that groups with different opinions should not be expelled from MUI’s management. He explained that MUI was formed to accommodate various Islamic mass organizations.
Still, Siti assessed that the effort to get rid of dissenting votes in MUI was not an outright victory for government supporters. Siti recalled that Indonesia is not only determined by the elite.
“In my opinion, it is naive to impose a certain institutional organization with such uniformity. Our democracy is participatory, no longer representative. Society is no longer represented by a series of groups,” Siti said.
(dhf / ain)
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