MUI's Memory Denies Proposing The Law To Cut The Corruptor's Hand

A series of anti-corruption demonstrations have asked corruptors to be severely punished in the archipelago. (ANTARA)

JAKARTA Memories of today, six years ago, January 3, 2019, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) denied proposing a law of cutting hands to corruptors into positive law. MUI itself has never made a draft or studied further regarding the law of cutting hands.

Previously, Deputy Secretary General of the Executive Board of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) for the 2015-2020 period, Tengku Zulkarnain often proposed a law of cutting hands to corruptors. He followed the government to use the law so that corruptors are deterrent.

Efforts to formulate penalties for officials who go along with people's money are often a matter of debate. Some legal experts consider the right punishment for corruptors is the death penalty. There are also those who consider the most appropriate punishment is impoverishing corruptors.

The proposal was sparked because of the assumption that corruptors are more afraid of poverty than death. Differences continue. Pros and cons arise. The problem is that the law has not changed. The punishment for corruptors is still in the old way: imprisoned.

The punishments given are sometimes low. In fact, the corruption he does is hoarding and detrimental to the whole of the archipelago. This condition makes many parties concerned about the corruption of state officials. Many are also furious.

The outrage was conveyed directly by Tengku Zul. The MUI official considers corruptors to be excessive. Indonesia has lost many times because of corruptors. State money was confiscated. The government also spent extra costs to pursue and hold corruptors' trials.

As a result, those who are proven will be imprisoned. The position of corruptors in prison is still profitable. Merkea gets to eat three times a day. The country has lost many times. He also proposed to the Jokowi government to apply the law of cutting hands into positive law.

"My friends and I have discussed that we will apply for proven thieves and corruptors, both with evidence and witnesses, do not need to be imprisoned but just cut off their hands. This proposal will be submitted after the 2019 election," said Tengku Zul during the National Remembrance event at the At Tin Mosque, East Jakarta, December 31, 2018.

Tengku Zul did not only reveal the idea of cutting off corrupt hands in each of his lectures. He also sometimes reveals this in his tweets on social media. As a result, the public believes that the idea brought by Tengku Zul is purely a proposal from MUI itself.

However, MUI did not admit that they had a proposal to cut the hands of corruptors into positive law on January 3, 2019. MUI itself has no plans, and does not even have a draft related to submitting a hand cut law.

MUI also emphasized that the lecture given by Tengku Zul was not his capacity as part of the MUI. Tengku Zul is considered by MUI to only bring himself as a lecturer who does not represent anything.

"The MUI has never proposed or made a draft for the punishment of cutting hands to corruptors. So the MUI has never been institutionally, organizationally to propose a cut-off law for corruptors or thieves," said MUI Da'wah Commission Chairman Cholil Nafis quoted on the coverage page 6.com, January 3, 2019.