The Police Must Take Decisive Action On The Actors Of Azan Berlafaz Jihad

Illustration (Photo: Irfan Meidianto / VOI)

JAKARTA - Several video recordings featuring the call to prayer with jidah have gone viral on social media. The police intervened to investigate the mastermind behind the video.

At least two videos are currently in the spotlight. First, a video that shows a group of people shouting the call to prayer while holding swords.

Then another video shows the action of the call to prayer whose sentence was changed from hayya alal solah 'to' hayya alal jihad '.

"Using the call to prayer for a call to jihad in a Muslim country like Indonesia is a provocation of violence that could have a negative impact on Muslims themselves and the Republic of Indonesia, which was painstakingly established by the nation's founders," said Chairman of the One Nation Forum Hery Haryanto Azumi to VOI, Sunday , 6 December.

Thus, he supports the steps of the police to take legal action in this case. The police, he said, cannot be favoritism.

"The government must take firm action against provocateurs who try to use religion as a means of enmity against fellow children of the nation," he said.

On this occasion he asked all citizens of the nation to work together in solving various national problems. Including increasing the level of welfare of the Indonesian people as a whole.

"The poverty factor also causes people to be easily distracted by radicalism under the pretext of religion," he said.

So far, the police have arrested two people involved in the case. They were arrested at different times and locations.

Polda Metro Jaya arrested a man with the initials H Cakung, East Jakarta, on Thursday 3 December. This arrest is based on a report on November 29, 2020. He is the one who spread the video call to prayer.

He admitted to the police that he received the video from the Whatsapp Group (WAG) Muslim Cyber One Forum (FMCO) News. So that the police still continue to study it.

Then, Bareskrim Polri also arrested another perpetrator with the initials SM (22). The young man was arrested in the Cibadak area, West Java.

This arrest is based on police report number LP / B / 0685 / XII / 2020 / Bareskrim, dated December 2. However, this time the man who was arrested had a direct role in the action.

He is the one who calls the call to prayer bearing the jihad. So, the police named him a suspect.

Thus, the investigator suspects the suspect under Article 45A paragraph (2) in conjunction with Article 28 paragraph (2) of Law Number 19 of 2019 concerning Amendments to Law Number 11 of 2008 concerning Electronic Information and Transactions and / or Article 156a of the Criminal Code.