The National Pronas Gate And Volunteers For Presidential Candidates Ask MUI To Be Firm About The Fatwa Boycott Of Israeli Products

JAKARTA - The Indonesian Muslim Consumer Foundation (YKMI) together with the National Product Awakening Movement (Pronas Movement) and a number of presidential candidates held demonstrations urging the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) to reaffirm Fatwa Number 83 of 2023, Wednesday, February 7.

The two institutions demanded that MUI reiterated and reaffirm the fatwa in order to prevent confusion and balance in the use of Israeli-affiliated products in society.

This also needs to be done with the consideration that some of Israel's affiliated products massively and aggressively attack the public through advertisements on television stating that these products are 100% Indonesian.

"We (Pronasbang) deliberately came to the MUI to ask this clerical organization to affirm the fatwa related to the boycott of Israeli products. In the midst of the ongoing Israeli massacre crime in Palestine, the community needs to strengthen the morals of the boycott of Israeli products through the re-affirmation of the MUI Fatwa that was issued last year," said Fuad Adnan, chairman of the Pronas Gate in front of the MUI building, Menteng, Jakarta.

In line with that, Young Voice Volunteers (Anies-Muhaimin/AMIN) focused their attention on manipulative attempts or fraud of a number of Israeli-affiliated products.

The product, said Young Voice, claims to be a local product and does not recognize its position in connection with Israel. Young voice also accused this act of being the most embarrassing act of fraud against Muslim consumers in Indonesia.

Recently, maybe because of losses, through massive advertising, many end up claiming to be local products of Indonesians. Even though he is clearly a foreign company (whose shares are Israeli supporters) and openly supports Israel's crimes against Palestine. This is called public fraud," he explained.

Not only that, Unilever, Starbucks and McDonald's along with several other foreign companies affected by the boycott are now trying to take sympathy for Indonesian consumers by making donations to Palestine and giving statements of Israel's unaffiliatedness.

In fact, it is clear that the brand provides royalties to its parent company, which Israel then distributes to buy war weapons.