By: Rahmat Kartolo) *
The State Intelligence Agency (BIN) had previously approached and monitored dozens of preachers who had the potential to spread radicalism. This approach and supervision was carried out after the Islamic Boarding Schools and Community Development Association (P3M) found that 41 mosques in government and ministry offices were exposed to radicalism.
Following up on this matter, the Ministry of Religion also made the issue of radicalism the focus of the government. This is because one of the visions of the minister of Religion Lukman Hakim Saifuddin is to overcome radicalism with the principle of religious moderation.
The Indonesian nation stood because of the idealism of the youth at that time. For this reason, national insight needs to be reminded and conveyed to all educators and students who will later become sources of information for the surrounding community.
The emergence of radicalism movement is a reaction carried out due to the enactment of global policies of the United States and other western countries, especially the existence of a Jewish state called Israel. Actually the people and groups of terrorists want to reject this with the aim of jihad in the way of Allah, but the way they do jihad is detrimental to many people who are not their target, so this will greatly damage the various structures of life both in the economic, social, politics, state or religion.
Ideology plays a very important role for the power of the state. The founders of the nation and state through deliberation to reach agreement to reach a noble agreement about the Pancasila as the basis of the country, this very large and diverse nation has the right and requires a strong integrative umbrella with norms that can sustain a great civilization.
From this description it is clearly stated that radicalism is a serious threat, here is the danger of radicalism that we need to know.
Radicalism ignores the most important message of religions that teach nobility and harmony. In Islam, this principle is known as rahmatan lil ‘alamin. Humans always crave security, safety and peace. Islam is revealed as the grace of all nature.
The notion of radicalism also threatens the unity of fellow citizens. It even damages the unity of fellow religious people. This terrorism movement teaches someone to act violently, as if they are not human beings who have a heart. They without seeing immediately destroy it.
On the other hand radicalism also causes suffering for innocent humans. Some are permanently disabled and suffer from prolonged trauma caused by irresponsible offenders. In this case, many of the targets that occurred were wrong, resulting in the loss of many lives that were not the target of the attack.
The most dangerous doctrine in the notion of radicalism is the doctrine of isthishad or suicide bombings. This suicide bombing is considered a martyrdom operation where people who commit it will die martyrdom and go straight to heaven embraced by the angels of heaven. Though suicide is clearly not a paradise of return but hell. Suicide bombings are the adoption of spiritual Shi’a ideology which means redeeming heaven by sacrificing themselves in an assassination operation.
Regarding the indication of mosques exposed to radicalism, this is also a note for BIN. Continuous monitoring is done so that radicalism does not expand and widen. Already the mosque should be guarded together so that it can become a normal place of worship and avoid the teachings that lead to radical movements.
The neutralization step is carried out by BIN as a prevention effort so that the handling of radicalism can be right on target. With preventive steps, it is expected that later the main actors or parties who have so far conveyed a false message to the public can return to the corridor. For this reason, Wawan expects the public to understand that in principle there are no efforts to harm, especially criminalization in handling radicalism in Indonesia.
BIN also conveyed donations from a number of countries to build mosques in Indonesia. He realized that this donation had the potential to cause its own problems in handling the radicalism that it did. Especially when donations are also provided with figures from donor countries to teach religious education in the mosque.
To eliminate radicalism in mosques, certainly synergy between ministries and institutions is needed. This is because there are several factors that trigger the emergence of radicalism in Indonesia, such as understanding religion, injustice to poverty. Shallow and erroneous religious understanding is a major factor in the spread of radicalism to terrorism in Indonesia.
Regarding the issue of radicalism in the mosque, of course the people must know clearly the difference between radicalism and terrorism, so that people are not mistaken in understanding the two terms.
Today’s radicals generally tend to be seen from physical appearance alone. For example, those who are veiled, bearded or use shorts. In fact, salafi groups that look like that are people who hold fast to the 5-day prayer and Al-Qur’an, are very anti-violence and even invite members of their congregation to support the government of anyone who took office at that time.
In discussions related to radicalism, it is better to specifically mention the names of organizations and ideologies that are affiliates, for example Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) with ISIS ideology. Therefore, the community should begin to be able to choose what organizations are called radical and threatening the NKRI rather than mentioning radicalism as a whole.
) * The author is a sociopolitical observer