Gun Romli: Minister Of Religion Yaqut Can Complain To The Press Council If He Is Harmed By The Clickbait News Title

Minister of Religion Yaqut (Photo: ANTARA DOC)

JAKARTA - Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) activist Mohamad Guntur Romli or Gun Romli said the Minister of Religion (Menag) Yaqut Cholil Qoumas could complain to the Press Council if he was harmed in the news that equated the call to prayer with barking dogs.

"Some media use clickbait titles, Gus Yaqut if he feels aggrieved can complain to the Press Council," said Gun Romli via a tweet on his Twitter account, @GunRomli quoted Thursday, February 24.

Gun Romli's statement at the same time insinuated former Menpora Roy Suryo who was planning to report Minister of Religion Yaqut to the police because of this controversial statement. For Gun Romli, Roy Suryo must be prepared to be reported to the ITE Law because it departs from clickbait news, not complete in presenting tendentious information and narratives.

"Can the call to prayer be called "an annoying TOA sound from the mosque and prayer room" by Gus Yaqut? Of course not, because in SE, the call to prayer and the reading of the Quran, tarhim, prayers 10 minutes before and including the call to prayer are allowed. How come Gus Yaqut slanderous equate the call to prayer with a dog barking," said Gun Romli.

Roy Suryo previously uploaded a video snippet of Minister of Religion Yaqut's explanation about the volume of the sound of the mosque's toa and prayer room needing to be regulated. Gun Romli objected to Roy's upload because it was only 30 seconds long, not fully presenting the explanation of Minister of Religion Yaqut.

On his tweet (@KRMTRoySuryo), Roy Suryo wrote, "This is PROOF of the Authentic Audio-Video recording, 100% ORIGINAL without any engineering/editing."

Gun Romli then presented a video with a longer duration than what the former Democratic politician uploaded. In the video, Minister of Religion Yaqut explains about the rules for volume.

"I have Gus Yaqut's statement of 2 minutes 58 seconds, he gave examples not only of barking dogs but also the sound of truck engines, prayers in houses of worship of other religions, Roy Suryo cut it for only 30 seconds, so that the main message was lost. Make a tendentious caption," said Gun Romli accompanied by a video from Menaq Yaqut.

In the video uploaded by Gun Romli, the Minister of Religion, Yaqut explains the important points of adjusting the volume. That's the content.

"Because we know, for example, in areas where the majority of Muslims are. Almost every 100-200 meters there are mosques. Imagine if at the same time they lit the Toa together at the top. That is no longer a symbol, but a disturbance for the surroundings," said Minister of Yaqut.

"Let's imagine again, I'm Muslim, I live in a non-Muslim environment. Then the house of worship for our non-Muslim brothers and sisters turn on Toa five times a day with loud bangs, that's how it feels," said Yaqut again.

He then gave an example of other sounds that could cause disturbance. One of them is the sound of a dog barking.

"The simplest thing is, if we live in a complex, for example. Left, right, front and back, all keep dogs. For example, barking at the same time, are we disturbed or not? What do these sounds mean? we arrange it so that it does not become a disturbance. Speakers in the mosques are welcome to use, but please arrange them so that they are not disturbed," said Minister of Religion Yaqut.