Jakarta – President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) knocked French President Emmanuel Macron’s declaration that insults Islam.
” Indonesia strongly denounces the declaration of the French President that has actually insulted Islam that has actually injured the beliefs of Muslims worldwide,” President Jokowi mentioned at the Merdeka Palace here on Saturday.
President Jokowi conveyed the declaration after consulting with religious leaders in Indonesia, including representatives from the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), Muhammadiyah, the Indonesian Church Trustees Conference (KWI), the Indonesian Church Association (PGI), Parisada Hindu Dharma Indonesia (PHDI), the Indonesian Buddhist Association (Permabudhi), the Indonesian Confucian Religious Beliefs Council (Matakin) and Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD, Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, and Minister of Religious Affairs Fachrul Razi.
” That can produce divisions among followers of various faiths at a time when the world requires unity to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic,” Jokowi stated.
The head of state thinks that flexibility of expression that stops working to uphold honor, sanctity, and the holiness of spiritual values and symbols can under no conditions be justified and ought to be stopped.
” Associating religious beliefs with acts of terrorism is a big mistake. Terrorism is terrorism. Terrorists are terrorists. Terrorism has no law with any religion,” he kept in mind.
Indonesia also highly denounced the violence in Paris and Nice.
” Indonesia strongly condemns the violence that happened in Paris and Nice that claimed lives,” the president mentioned.
Previously, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry denounced Macron’s remarks on Islam and support for depiction and publication of cartoons on Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), which have actually sparked much ire in the Islamic World.
To register its demonstration, the Indonesian Foreign Ministry summoned French Ambassador to Indonesia and Timor Leste, Olivier Chambard, on Tuesday, October 27, 2020, and looked for a description for Macron’s questionable statements.
Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson, Teuku Faizasyah, informed ANTARA here on Wednesday that Ambassador Chambard was summoned to apprise him of Indonesia’s main position on the anti-Islam remarks made by Macron recently in a speech.
The Indonesian government challenged President Macron’s remarks linking Islam to terrorism or extremism, affirming that associating any religion to acts of horror can not be justified and would deeply offend adherents of the religions, Faizasyah mentioned.
Macron’s remarks following the beheading of Samuel Paty, a history and location instructor, for revealing cartoons of Prophet Muhammad throughout a class recently have actually stimulated controversy and fueled a backlash from Muslims worldwide over the previous few days.
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