Chairman Of PP Muhammadiyah: No Agamis-Nasionalis Confrontation In The 2024 Election

Chairman of the Muhammadiyah Central Executive Haedar Nashir. BETWEEN/Luqman Hakim/aa.

YOGYAKARTA - General Chairperson of Muhammadiyah Central Executive Haedar Nashir warned political figures not to create confrontations between religious values and nationalism in the 2024 General Election.

"We should have finished the issue of nationalism and religion. So, leaders and citizens of the nation do not need to confront themselves between nationalism and religion, between nationalist and religious tendencies," said Haedar at the Faculty of Law, Islamic University of Indonesia (UII), Sleman Regency, Yogyakarta Special Region, reported by ANTARA, Thursday, September 7.

Instead of contradicting nationalism and religion, according to Haedar, political elites and participants who contested the 2024 General Election should be able to enjoy both of them simultaneously.

"Regarding the excess there, yes, it is a matter of excellence and that is the choice of ladies and gentlemen," said Haedar.

He hopes that the 2024 General Election will no longer create a dichotomy by creating a diametrial position or separating religion and nationalism.

In fact, the most important thing, continued Haedar, is how to integrate religious or Islamic values, with nationalism.

"At the same time giving a substantive meaning to Islamic or religious values, with statesmanship or nationality," he said.

Haedar assessed that the political and democratic processes in Indonesia today actually no longer have ideological fights, except "who gets what, when, and how" or who gets what, when, and how.

Nevertheless, he believes that all political elites who contest the 2024 General Election still have the idealism to jointly realize the ideals of independence as stated in the constitution.

"Well, we brought it so that it can be proven in political reality," said Haedar.

The experience of five times holding elections since the reform era, for Haedar, should have been enough to make the Indonesian nation able to be more mature and mature while avoiding hostility and hatred.

"I believe that many political figures are responsible and have a good national and religious framework," he said.