Indonesian National Police Criminal Investigation Agency Arrests The Founder Of Muamalah Market, Allegedly Related To The Use Of Dinars And Dirhams

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JAKARTA - Indonesian National Police Criminal Investigation Agency arrested the founder of Muamalah market in Depok, West Java, Zaim Saidi. This arrest was allegedly related to the use of dinars and dirhams as means of payment.

"Yes, we have secured him", said Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division, General Rusdi Hartono in his statement, Wednesday, February 3.

Rusdi said that the arrest of Zaim Saidi was carried out by the Directorate of Special Economic Crimes, on Tuesday, February 2 Night.

It's just that Rusdi did not want to explain clearly about the arrest.

As reported previously, the phenomenon of using dirhams and dinars as means of payment in a number of areas on Java Island suddenly went viral in cyberspace. During VOI searches on the internet, important information was obtained from the Muslim Youth Twitter account @Pencerah__.

From his tweet, it was revealed that the use of dirhams in buying and selling transactions was concentrated in a trading center called Muamalah Market.

"These Muamalah markets are under the authority of Amirat Nusantara, led by Zaim Saidi. He is known as the pioneer of the movement for the return of gold dinars and silver dirhams in Indonesia", the account wrote Thursday, January 28.

Furthermore, he also explained that these activities were part of the action against the economic system prevailing in Indonesia. The reason is that Zaim and his followers think the existing trade ecosystem does not match their views.

"Zaim Zaidi (allegedly a member of HTI) is against the current financial system which he considers usury capitalism", he said.

In the post, @Pencerah__ revealed that Zaim had been campaigning for the use of dirhams and dinars for a long time. This is corroborated by the evidence he posted on his Twitter page.

“Zaim Saidi's digital footprint is in an effort to incite people to leave rupiah banknotes and return to dirhams and dinars as a means of market transactions. This is HTI's goal, which wants to return to the era of the Prophet, but in the wrong way”, he said.

"From my search results, there are several Muamalah markets in several regions of the archipelago. Like in Yogyakarta, Bekasi and Depok-West Java”, explained @Pencerah__.