Avoid Politicizing SARA in Elections

A member of the Board of Trustees of the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem), Titi Anggraini, said that in the past, political identity was attached to party institutions.

KOMPAS/WAWAN H PRABOWO (WAK)

A mural of the Anti-SARA campaign in the General Election depicted on the wall of the Dukuh Atas area, Jakarta, Friday (19/6/2020).

SURABAYA, KOMPAS — The Indonesian Rectors Forum (FRI) invites all components of the nation to avoid the traps of the misuse of identity politics in the form of politicizing ethnicity, religion, race and intergroup (SARA) in the general election. The politicization of SARA could potentially cause conflict, violence, damage unity and tarnish the noble values of the life of the nation and state.

These were some of the recommendations made at the Indonesian Rectors Forum conference which were read out at the 28th Campus Convention and the 24th Annual FRI Meeting at the Airlangga University Convention Center in Surabaya, East Java, on Sunday (30/10/2022). In this event, the rector of Airlangga University, Mohammad Nasih, was inaugurated as chairman of the FRI for the 2022-2023 period.