Amien Rais Is Considered On A Same Level With Gus Dur, Yenny Wahid: No Comment!
Screenshot of the Chairperson of the Syuro Assembly of the Ummat Party Amien Rais leading a party declaration event in Yogyakarta, Thursday, April 29 (Photo: Antara)
JAKARTA - The Daughter of the 4th President of the Republic of Indonesia Abdurrahman Wahid, Yenny Wahid, responded to the character of the Chairperson of the Syuro Council of the Ummat Amien Rais Party who is considered to be on the same level with Gus Dur. This is because Amien Rais is said to be a role model within Muhammadiyah as well as Gus Dur who is attached to Nahdlatul Ulama.

 

Yenny did not comment on the analogy of 'Amien Rais in the same level as Gus Dur', but according to her party, the public certainly knows which figures are truly considered role models.

 

"No comment on this matter. The public has a better understanding of which one is more trustworthy among the existing figures", said Yenny Wahid's spokesman, Imron Rosyadi Hamid, to VOI, Saturday, May 1.

 

Previously, a political observer from Al Azhar Indonesia University, Andriadi Achmad, assessed that Amien Rais' figure was still a magnet for the Ummah Party. In fact, he could be succeeded in bringing his party to the election stage.

 

"The assumption that Amien Rais' prestige is obsolete is only the perception of the media. Because in Indonesia, whoever is against the government must be decayed by buzzers and others", Andriadi told VOI, Friday, April 30.

 

According to him, the father of reform has almost no loopholes that can be gouged out to be tackled in the arena of national politics.

 

"If Amien Rais does not have a gap, no corruption, he is a deviant figure, not only he is more critical, and sometimes many people do not like it and even be exaggerated", he said.

Andriadi made an analogy of Amien Rais as Abdurrahman Wahid or Gus Dur, who was identified as synonymous with Indonesia's largest Islamic mass organization Nahdlatul Ulama. Gus Dur's character was even attached to the Partai Kebangkitan Bangsa (PKB) even though the 4th president had died and his party had changed its chairman.

 

"So I don't think Amien Rais is bad. He (Amien, red) is at the same level as Gus Dur. That is, he is a Muhammadiyah figure, Gus Dur is NU, whose fanatical masses are still there", said Andriadi.

 

Even though he cannot claim, said Andriadi, Amien Rais is the brightest figure in Muhammadiyah. "Amien after KH Ahmad Dahlan means attached, so with Gus Dur's PKB, after losing his prestige (PKB, ed) it dropped drastically", he said.

 

The Executive Director of the Nusantara Institute PolCom SRC assessed that Amien Rais is no longer a darling in the media after his involvement in Alumni 212. However, in the eyes of his loyalists, Amien Rais is still a role model.

 

"Indeed it is not visible in the mass media, but it cannot be denied that Amien Rais still has prestige even though in the media he is ridiculed, said to be cynical. That's the language of the buzzer media. But if at the roots of the people he is still in the hearts of the people. He has no defeats. Yes, he is at the same level as Gus Dur. He is a figure for Muhammadiyah (Amien Rais, red) the Nahdlatul Ulama cleric is Gus Dur, so he still has prestige", said Andriadi.

 


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