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Furtive attempts by hard-line group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI ) to campaign for the establishment of a caliphate are being met with rejection from all societal elements in Papua, as Papuans consider them to contradict the state ideology of Pancasila and the 1945 Constitution, an expert has said.
A member of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), the nation's top Islamic clerical body, has said that people who want to replace the country’s political system with khilafah (an Islamic caliphate) are betraying the consensus agreed upon by the nation’s founding fathers.
Coordinating Political, Legal and Security Affairs Minister Wiranto said on Monday that any organizations that did not recognized the nation's founding principles of Pancasila would not be allowed to operate in the country.
The Surakarta branch of the mass Islamic organization, Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), claims it does not take the government’s move to ban the group seriously, saying it is no more than just talk. Moreover, it says the HTI is a legal organization that has been registered at the Law and Human Rights Ministry.
The Indonesian Christian Students Movement (GMKI) has said it disagrees with the government’s move to disband the hard-line Islamist group Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI), saying it would not be in line with Pancasila values.
