Covid-19 has indeed become something dangerous and deadly. Nevertheless, there is a virus that is more dangerous than Covid-19, which is a radicalism virus because it can endanger the nation’s ideology, break unity, and cause disintegration in society.
This co-19 epidemic should have brought communities and governments together and worked together to deal with the threat of spread and all its effects. However, the radial seems to spread issues that lead to radicalism that can threaten the life of the nation and state.
For example, when the government implements appeals regarding social distancing, radicals will be very visible and proven when they continue to adhere to not implementing social distancing and insisting on praying in congregation at the mosque. If they insist then they will answer it with ‘life and death is in the hands of God.
Of course we all know that age or destiny is in the hands of God, but it all goes back to each other’s endeavors. It is not enough to only have capital, but they have not maximized efforts such as implementing social distancing or worship at home.
Radicals will certainly think, we should not be afraid of the corona virus outbreak, because what should be feared is only God. When in fact this is a logical flaw, it should, fear God, we must approach it, while fear of the corona virus we should avoid it.
Corona virus is not something ordinary, the virus is very contagious regardless of ethnicity, religion or race
Of course, to be a pious man does not have to be in a mosque or other place of worship, but wherever we can carry the values of piety is limited in the mosque, Islam in the mosque, even faith in the mosque. This kind of Islam certainly shows no health.
Meanwhile, the former head of the National Agency for Combating Terrorism, Inspector General, (Ret.) Ansyaad Mbai said, understanding radicalism is more dangerous than the corona virus that is spreading.
Ansyaad originated, if the radicalism virus spreads, then the entire Indonesian nation will be the victim. While the corona virus, we already know the victim with all the symptoms.
This is what made Ansyaad support the Government’s decision not to repatriate hundreds of ex-ISIS citizens and cross-border terrorists to Indonesia.
The Ministry of Communication and Information has so far monitored more than 200 negative sites on the Internet. In 2015, as many as 22 sites that spread radicalism were blocked by the government. Even blocking does not require complicated procedures.
Through the internet, internet users can get extreme understanding wrapped in propaganda in the form of anxiety narratives over all government policies. The narration then raises the perception of a threat that the world will deteriorate.
The government under the leadership of President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) has given special attention to radicalism that can threaten the future of the nation and state.
This is based on the national goals of the Indonesian nation as stated in the 1945 Constitution, namely to protect the entire Indonesian nation and the entire Indonesian Blood Oath, Promote Public Welfare, Educate the life of the nation and participate in carrying out world order.
The Coordinating Minister for Political Law and Human Rights (Menkopolhukam), Mahfud MD revealed that the handling of radicalism will be carried out across ministries.
The most emphasized thing is that radical groups do not refer to certain groups or religions, therefore, the idea that radical people are part of certain religious groups must be changed.
The former Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court emphasized that radicalism is a concept that wants to change the basis and ideology of the state by going against the rules, then damaging the new generation of thinking. Whatever the religion, when it does, it certainly deserves a radical predicate.
Minister of Administrative Reform and Bureaucracy Reform (MenPAN-RB) Tjahjo Kumolo emphasized that the government will continue to monitor and monitor every digital footprint of echelon I and II officials’ social media.
Tjahjo also said, ASN as a State Servant, should be able to become the glue of the nation, in the use of social media.
Of course not only the ASN, but all levels of society, of course, must play a role in reducing the spread of the radicalism virus in the immediate environment.
) * The author is a social political observer, active in United Muslim Millennials
