MUI Supports Raperda On Tolerance In Banjarmasin, Chair Of The Special Committee From PKS Affirms All Religious Adherents Must Be Under The Umbrella

Banjarmasin DPRD Special Committee Raperda on the Implementation of Tolerance for Community Life in Banjarmasin City by inviting MUI, Ministry of Religion, and LK3 in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, Monday (6/6/2022). ANTARA/Sukarli

BANJARMASIN - The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) stated that it supports the Draft Regional Regulation (Raperda) on the Implementation of Tolerance for Community Life in Banjarmasin City, South Kalimantan.

Deputy Chairperson of the MUI Banjarmasin Muhammad Natsir emphasized that his party supports the Raperda and is always ready to provide input.

"We are grateful that there is a special committee for this meeting to discuss the Raperda," said Muhammad Natsir, who was accompanied by the Secretary of the Banjarmasin MUI, Husni Arsyad, as reported by Antara, Monday, June 6.

In the discussion of the Special Committee (Pansus) of the Raperda for Tolerance of Banjarmasin Community Life, his party will provide suggestions and input for the direction and purpose of the regulation later.

"Even though today's discussion meeting has not yet entered into substance, our input is stated as material for further discussion," said Natsir

One of his side's suggestions and inputs, he said, was to have a lot to do with Pancasila education.

"If we live together Pancasila, tolerance will be created by itself," he said.

He emphasized that this Pancasila education must be instilled from students to universities so that tolerance can continue to reside in the community.

Chairman of the Special Committee for the Banjarmasin City DPRD, Mathari, said that his party really needed the support of the MUI, the Ministry of Religion, and the Institute for Islamic and Community Studies (LK3).

"They gave a lot of input, this is very good for the continuation of the discussion on the Tolerance Raperda," he said.

According to the PKS politician, this Raperda is an effort to continue to maintain tolerance in Banjarmasin City, which is a plural city.

"From a religious perspective in Banjarmasin City, according to the law, everything is there," he said.

Even for tribes, he continued, there are all of them in Banjarmasin City, not even less than 27 ethnicities or tribes.

"Everything must be under an umbrella so that intolerance does not occur in the community, we must maintain it and the rules are clear," said Mathari.