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est Java Deputy Governor Yusuf Macan Efendi, popularly known as Dede Yusuf, said on Wednesday that his team was working on a gubernatorial regulation regarding Pancasila, the official national ideology.

“Included in the discussion are efforts to revitalize the nation’s identity,” Dede said.

He said that the deliberation on the regulation was linked to the recent publicity of the Islamic State of Indonesia (NII) movement, which seeks to establish Islamic law in Indonesia and has caused restlessness among the community.

The NII is mentioned as being behind the brainwashing of university students, persuading them to consider themselves as the most correct followers of Islam. Dede expected that the regulation would be become a legal foundation for each educational institution in West Java to teach about Pancasila as the state ideology with its pan-archipelago insights.

Materials on the ideology are expected to help counter radical perspectives on various differences in Indonesia, he said. “It deals with unity and the state,” he added.

Pancasila lesson materials will include, among other things, education of Pancasila morality, guidelines for the appreciation and application of Pancasila and manners.

“They have long disappeared. The gubernatorial regulation will strive to revive them,” he said.

On an initial stage, Dede gave a debriefing of sorts to at least 500 Boy Scouts at the Indonesian Military’s education and training command headquarters in Bandung, themed “Encountering NII with State Defense Activities”.