KPU-Religious Figures Strive For The 2024 Election Will Not Disturb Inter-Community Harmony

The General Election Commission (KPU) and a number of religious leaders from high religious assemblies have agreed on cooperation to strive so that the implementation of the 2024 General Election does not interfere with the harmony or harmony between believers in the country.

"This is a new tradition that we will do, the cooperation between the upper house of religion and the KPU. I think this has never been done before, how so that religious emotions are not involved too far to fight for a short-term interest. That is, how so that the democratic party does not interfere with the harmony between religious believers," said Istiqlal Mosque Grand Imam Nasaruddin Umar to reporters at the KPU office, Jakarta, reported by ANTARA, Friday, May 19.

The agreement, said Nasaruddin, was the result of the meeting between the two parties in an audience conducted by several leaders of high religious assemblies in Indonesia against the KPU.

In following up on the cooperation agreement, Nasaruddin said that in the future religious leaders would give directions to members of religious assemblies at the regional level to invite the public not to involve religious emotions in the 2024 election.

"Don't wait until later, only for a moment's interests, we involve religious emotions that are not in place," he said.

In addition, he continued, religious leaders are also willing to help the KPU to remind election participants not to use places of worship as a means of campaigning.

Nasaruddin Umar invites all parties to participate in democratic parties without injuring brotherhood between religious believers.

On the same occasion, KPU Chairman Hasyim Asy'ari conveyed that his party was honored to receive a visit from several representatives of the upper house of religion led by Nasaruddin Umar.