By: Ajeng Mufadillah )*
The idea of the Ministry of Religious prepare standard capacity and Khatib (preacher) Friday prayer sermon preachers through the certification program is based on the complaint turns out people who feel the content of Friday Khutbah contains a mockery of the charged interest groups and certain elements.
Minister of Religious Affairs Lukman Hakim said, many who said that sometimes some mosque preachers forget offered advice should be, then the content of the sermon even mocked even demonize something that is contrary to the group’s advice.
Lukman added that the Friday sermon should not contain any of the confrontational because of potential disintegration nation. Therefore, the idea of certification speaker appeared to recall the importance of the Friday sermon that should be done to explain the teachings of Islam which rahmatan lilalamin.
Moreover, the idea of certification is a response from the public embarrassment when the Friday sermon perceived divide the unity of Muslims. Certification certainly gives the impression that the government intervene in the course of the Friday prayer. Therefore, he stated, the proposed certification process conducted by a collection of civil society organizations (organizations) of Islam and the scholars.
In this regard, the Ministry of Religious merely a facilitator that bridges among all categories. To resolve the differences of opinion that emerged between Islamic mass organizations, Lukman suggested they form a container. In that container, according to Lukman, the difference between organizations and scholars can be put together.
Lukman explained, it must be underlined, this is not government policy. This new idea and responded to by the Ministry of Religion for us to be responsive to the aspirations of each community. Later Friday sermon is expected to lead to the teachings of Islam rahmatan lilalamin moderate. Because, said Lukman, all religions that developed in Indonesia sensible moderate, not extreme. No religion is extreme in Indonesia.
History records for hundreds of years Indonesia role in religious moderation. So that the function of religion we follow to establish pluralistic, hence this religious moderation that carried the Ministry of Religion. It developed that Muhammadiyah and NU were developed with Islam Nusantara.
Discourse on this Friday Prayer Khatib certification should be considered carefully before it is realized. The government should pay attention to positive and negative impacts. The government must give the same treatment to other religious leaders, so it is not considered less unfair and discriminative.
)* The author of the National Study of Development Issues
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