HTI, Perppu and Pancasila

Kompas/Angger Putranto

Hundreds of supporters of Indonesian Hizbut Tahrir (HTI) are present in a HTI conference at the Bung Karno stadium, Jakarta, Sunday (2/6/2013). HTI encourages all Muslims to return to living under an Islamic Caliphate that enforces Islamic Sharia.

Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) was the first Islamic organization given sanctions based on Perppu (government regulation in lieu of law) No. 2 of 2017. The mass organization received an administrative sanction in the form of legal entity revocation due to its political ideology, which opposes Pancasila.

Therefore, HTI will be disbanded and all of its activities are prohibited. The assertiveness of the administration of President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo was a solution to the strengthening of religious radicalism that emerged after the 1998 reformation. Many people call it a revival of political Islam which has, since the Old Order and New Order, attempted to be silenced. After the reformation, this political Islam rose up to enjoy freedom in the name of civil rights guaranteed by the law.