While reading Friday’s Jakarta Post, a visiting friend remarked we were “a funny” country. Perhaps he was trying to use a milder term for something else. His remark came after reading an item concerning Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) chairperson Tifatul Sembiring’s views on Bank of Indonesia’s Governor, Boediono, as the running mate of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his next term in the office as president.
The second piece of news was about another equally “funny” article about the requirement for a female presidential candidate to avoid having sex for ten days.
Tifatul Sembiring is not very comfortable with Governor Boediono’s faith and says, as quoted by this paper, “Boediono has never been seen speaking to Muslim masses.”
So, although he regularly attends Friday prayers in the mosque, he is still considered that not sufficiently Muslim”.
What is more “funny” is that according to Sembiring’s statement, his constituents see Boediono as a nationalist, which is not a proper representation of Islam.
The question is; what then is the proper representation of Islam? Another more important question is; can Muslims be not nationalists at the same time?...click here for more
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