Government Told to Uphold Pancasila
Nahdlatul Ulama Executive Board (PBNU) chairman Said Aqil Siraj (center) with a number of Islamic mass organization leaders address the press at the DPP PBNU office, Jakarta, Friday (7/7). Twelve Islamic mass organizations that are members of the Islamic Organization Friendship Body (LPOI) demanded that the government speed up the issuance of a government regulation in lieu of law (Perppu) on mass organizations and pushed for the disbandment of radical and anti-Pancasila mass organizations. They also opposed the five-day school policy.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS – The enactment of Government Regulation in Lieu of Law (Perppu) No. 2/2017 on the revision of Law No. 17/2013 on mass organizations should not only be applied using an ideological dimension. The valuation standard of the implementation of Pancasila state ideology and values must also apply to the government.
According to Muhammadiyah chairman Busyro Muqoddas, who was contacted in Jakarta on Thursday (14/7), the matter of the issuance of the Perppu on mass organizations seems to have only one dimension, which is forcing Pancasila on the people and mass organizations. “There is only one dimension, forcing an ideology on those whose ideology is deemed a threat to Pancasila. However, there is something more concrete. There is the matter of how Pancasila is violated, distorted and not applied. For example in the form of government policies that do not fulfill people’s economic and social rights. There is still social imbalance and injustice. If this is the case, it is as though the government has not implemented Pancasila,” he said.