[nasional_list] [ppiindia] Re: Islamist party, no?
- From: "RM Danardono HADINOTO" <rm_danardono@xxxxxxxx>
- To: ppiindia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 19:52:29 -0000
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Salam hangat
Danardono
--- In ppiindia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "M Ikhsan Modjo"
<mikhsan.modjo@...> wrote:
>
> Editorial yang berani dan cerdas.
>
> Salam,
>
>
> http://www.thejakartapost.com/detaileditorial.asp?
fileid=20061018.E01&irec=0
>
> Islamist party, no?
>
> If the latest opinion poll by the Indonesian Survey Institute
(LSI) is
> any indication, then the combined votes of all the Islamist
parties in
> Indonesia will plunge to 9 percent in the 2009 elections, from more
> than 20 percent in 2004. The survey, however, is not so
comprehensive
> as to allow us to draw any strong conclusions about the direction
of
> Islamist parties, let alone explain their ups and downs.
>
> More interesting than the survey is the presence of Islamist
parties
> in politics. One is immediately reminded of what the late
Nurcholish
> Madjid, one of Indonesia's great Islamic thinkers, had to say on
the
> topic: "Islam Yes, Islamist Party No!" This statement in the late
> 1970s launched an exhaustive debate about the pros and cons of
> Islamist parties (or any party using religious symbols, for that
> matter) contesting general elections in the country.
>
> Now that the LSI is spotlighting Islam and politics again, it begs
the
> question, does Indonesia really need Islamist parties, especially
> since the poll says they are losing their appeal among Indonesian
> voters.
>
> Several countries with huge Muslim populations have already banned
> political parties using Islamic symbols. But each of these
countries,
> like Turkey, Tunisia, Algeria and Nigeria, reached these decisions
> through different paths, including violent suppression. They could
> hardly be used as a model for Indonesia.
>
> If and when Indonesia decides to ban Islamist parties, it will
have to
> go through the democratic process to reach a national consensus.
>
> There are some very compelling reasons why it is time we rethink
the
> presence of political parties that use religious symbols.
>
> Our own modern history provides the most powerful argument. For
much
> of the last 61 years, our time and attention have been consumed by
> whether Indonesia is a religious state or a secular state, about
the
> place of Islam in politics and the battle to impose sharia, the
> Islamic law.
>
> At the national level, the matter has been settled many times over.
> The democratic elections in 1955, 1999 and 2004 showed that parties
> with Islamist agenda never enjoy the support of more than 20
percent
> of the voters. This should be a sufficient indicator of the
> aspirations of Indonesians, including the majority Muslims, on the
> questions of Islam and politics.
>
> There was a huge debate about the place of Islam in Indonesia when
our
> founding fathers were drafting the 1945 constitution, with the
> secularists winning the day. They debated whether Islamic laws
should
> be applied to Indonesian Muslims and a separate law to non-Muslims.
> There was another big debate over the same issue during the
> constitutional amendment in 2000-2002. Again the secular camp won.
>
> One would have thought that the matter was settled: The majority
have
> accepted that Indonesia is a secular state, but one that respects
and
> observes universal religious values.
>
> But courtesy of the Islamist parties, the issue keeps resurfacing
> again and again and it is taking time, attention and resources away
> that could have been allocated for more serious nation-building
> activities and to catch up with the rest of the world. As a
nation, we
> seem to have not moved an inch precisely because of this perennial
> issue.
>
> The latest technique by the Islamist parties is to push their
agenda
> through unsuspecting regional areas. One province and more than 20
> districts are now governed by some versions of sharia.
>
> The danger of using (or rather abusing) religion in politics is
that
> it risks splitting this pluralist nation along religious lines,
> between the majority Muslims versus non-Muslims, along with a false
> notion of the righteous versus the infidels.
>
> Although Indonesian voters have not fallen for this kind of debate,
> the risk of a civil war is very real and should not be
underestimated.
> The communal conflicts in Poso, Central Sulawesi, and, until
recently,
> in Maluku, serve as painful reminders of what our religious
> differences can do if they are not managed carefully.
>
> The one compelling argument against banning Islamist parties is
that
> we live in a democracy. Our constitution guarantees freedom of
> association, including the right of people to form political
parties
> on the bases of any platform, barring Communism, which is still
> banned.
>
> Here is the rub. The Islamist parties will continue to campaign on
> their Islamist agenda, even while they know they are unlikely to
win
> majority support to push their agenda nationally. They also know
that
> some percentage of the people (between 10 and 20 percent) will vote
> for them, enough to get them seats in parliament. So they continue
to
> champion their lost causes because, at the end of the day, Islam to
> them is just a political commodity. They have no real vision, let
> alone strategy to improve the lot of the nation. Nation building is
> probably the last of their worries. That's no way to run politics.
>
> Nurcholish Madjid may have been right when he rejected the notion
of
> an Islamist party. In his honor, we should reexamine at his
thoughts
> and vision.
>
> The question that the nation needs to ask is no longer whether we
> should adopt sharia or turn into an Islamic state. These have both
> been rejected outright. The question that we should be asking is
> whether the presence of Islamist parties is beneficial or
detrimental
> to Indonesia's future.
>
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