By: Asjad Agustino) *
The decision to disband FPI is considered to be correct. The community also supports these law enforcement efforts because FPI is a mass organization that always worries the community and does not have a positive contribution to the life of the nation and state.
The government has officially dissolved the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI). This dissolution apparently sparked support from the Secretary General of the 1957 Kosgoro Collective Center, Sabil Rachman, in the opinion that this government policy is a form of state responsibility in enforcing the law. As it is known, the Registered Certificate / SKT owned by FPI has expired for a long time.
In a written statement, he said that FPI was disbanded or dissolved not because of ideological issues but merely technical matters outside regulatory regulations.
Therefore, the government’s decision at that time regarding the disbandment of FPI was more of a mere political affirmation and justification from the state to the public that FPI had exhausted its legitimacy as an organization based on SKT which had been the basis of its activities.
He also considered that the disbandment of FPI was a warning to other mass organizations to understand their position, if they do not have the legitimacy of the state, they are not allowed to carry out community activities.
After the affirmation of the government, the public is expected to be able to judge objectively, what is the position of FPI in relation to the spirit of upholding the law, which has been shouted temporarily for its status without any legal basis.
On a different occasion, the police have threatened to disband new FPI models or their derivatives, such as the Islamic United Front which has been declared in the regions. This is done if the organization is not registered and does not follow the applicable rules.
Therefore, Rusdi said that every mass organization cannot arbitrarily and must be registered and follow the laws that apply as mass organizations, if they want to be recognized as mass organizations with the law on normality.
Separately, FPI stated that it would not register itself as a mass organization with the government. FPI’s legal team, Aziz Yanuar, said registering mass organizations was not important.
He said the most important thing at this time was to oversee the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) to complete the investigation into the case of the death of 6 FPI Laskar when clashes with police officers.
Aziz said the former FPI frontman, Rizieq Shihab, who is currently languishing at Polda Metro Jaya because of the crowd case in Petamburan, had suggested that the FPI acronym name be changed to Front of the Islamic Brotherhood.
The government has also determined that the FPI is a banned organization. The decree was signed by the Minister of Home Affairs, the Minister of Law and Human Rights, the Minister of Communication and Information Technology, the National Police Chief, the Attorney General and the Head of the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT).
The official decree serves as the basis for the government to prohibit and dissolve any organizational activity fronted by Rizieq Shihab.
The decree also states that the public can report if they find FPI carrying out activities and the police have the right to disperse any FPI activity.
Until now, FPI has not completed the requirements so that it has not pocketed a permit extension.
Not only in Indonesia, foreign media also highlighted the disbandment of FPI, such as straits times, Channel News Asia and The Star. The three media reported the news about FPI as a hardline Islamic organization.
Foreign media also portray FPI as an organization that often intimidates minority religious groups in Indonesia.
In fact, FPI is a mass organization that tends to be intolerant, this is evidenced when the Huria Kristen Batak Protestant Church (HKBP) Filadelfia one morning on Sunday in 2012. Who would have thought, her intention to worship ended in disaster, when suddenly dozens of people in white robes with the FPI label had filled the grounds of the Church. They blocked the congregation who wanted to worship.
Pastor Palti, as the worship leader, admitted that it was not uncommon for the congregation to receive rotten eggs and sewage on the way to the church. Even when praying, the FPI group also held a demonstration with loudspeakers to disturb the congregation who were praying.
Palti also had time to ask President Jokowi, so that people in Indonesia can freely worship according to their respective religions and beliefs.
The public certainly knows that FPI’s track record of often carrying out actions that seem arrogant, such as forcibly closing food stalls that are open during the day, this is coupled with FPI’s reluctance to take care of extension letters.
) * The author is a citizen living in Semarang