Reasons For The Use Of Dinars And Dirhams In Old Depok Revealed

Illustration of dirham and dinar. (Photo: By courtesy)

JAKARTA - Bareskrim Polri explained the new reason for the disclosure of the case of using dinars and dirhams with the suspect Zaim Saidi. One of them is because Muamalah Market does not operate every day.

"This market is once a month. Like once a month, or once every 2 weeks, right? Not once every 2 weeks, once a month," said Head of Public Relations Division of the National Police, Kombes Ahmad Ramadhan to reporters, Wednesday, February 3.

In addition, Muamalah Market only operates for two to four hours. Then, the currency that is used is also in the form of coins. So that it is not too flashy.

"Initially in his community, now, as time goes by, there are 10 to 15 traders," he said.

In fact, in the disclosure of this case the investigator must also go through the investigation process. So, it takes time to get evidence.

"Yes, so be sure that the investigator first fulfills the elements, then conducts a case title, determines, then an arrest will be made," he said.

Meanwhile, the phenomenon of using dirhams and dinars as means of payment in a number of areas on the island of Java 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 because Zaim and his followers think the existing trade ecosystem does not match their views.

"Zaim Zaidi (allegedly 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__.