Yogyakarta – Muhammadiyah chairman Haedar Nashir has prompted the Indonesian people to not be divided in responding to the conflict and humanitarian tragedy unfolding in Palestine.
” Do not let this country be divided since of reacting to the Palestinian issue as its position is clear; moreover, it’s mentioned in the nationwide goals. One of them is that we wish to participate in (maintaining) world order and enduring peace,” Nashir stated throughout a public conversation on the ‘Arab-Israel Conflict, Peace Opportunities and Challenges’, held online on Monday.
As Indonesia was once colonized, all sections of the Indonesian country must comprehend the issue and share the very same view– that colonialism in any country in the world is the most bitter, dark, and the majority of terrible human disaster that needs to be opposed, he remarked.
Muhammadiyah values the right, consistent, and firm position taken by the Indonesian federal government in support of the self-reliance of the Palestinian people, stated Nashir.
” We appreciate the Indonesian government for taking the right and consistent position to support Palestine securely,” he specified.
Even some Arab countries, according to him, have actually not taken as firm a position on the problem as Indonesia.
He urged residents and nationwide elites, who have up until now supported the present regime, to also support its stand on Palestine.
The Indonesian country has actually responded to the problem of Palestinian profession within the framework of the Constitutional required, he stated.
The preamble to the 1945 Constitution (UUD) specifies that colonialism in the world must be abolished due to the fact that it is not in accordance with mankind and justice, he pointed out.
He also stated he hopes that every party would stop seeing the issue of Palestine solely as a problem of Islam versus others.
Nashir, however, did not deny that the problem of Palestine intersects with the issue of Islam when viewed from the historical point of view and the presence of the Al-Aqsa Mosque, held spiritual by Muslims after the Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Nabawi Mosque in Medina.
” That there is an Islamic context, alright, as far as exclusively Islam is worried. However when worrying the relationship amongst countries and humanity, this is a matter of colonialism,” he mentioned. (INE)
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