Cak Imin Refuses To Respond To Minister Of Religion Yaqut About Choosing Amin Bid'ah, Will Not Give Warning

Anies Baswedan-Cak Imin when he arrived at the PKS DPP Office (Photo: Nailin In Saroh/VOI)

JAKARTA - The General Chairperson of the PKB as well as the vice presidential candidate for the Coalition for Amendments to Unity (KPP), Abdul Muhaimin Iskandar or Cak Imin, reluctant to respond to the joke of the Minister of Religion Yaqut Cholil Qoumas about choosing AMIN as a bid'ah. "Does it need to be responded to? There is no need to respond," said Cak Imin, quoted on Friday, September 15. According to Cak Imin, Yaqut's statement about supporting the Anies Baswedan-Muhaimin Iskandar pair, which abbreviated as AMIN, was a bid'ah, had no substance. "There is no substance," he said. Cak Imin will also not give a warning for the words of the Minister of Religion Yaqut, who is known to be one of the PKB cadres. The deputy chairman of the DPR assessed that Yaqut's jokes were part of democratic freedom. "Democracy is like that, anyone's freedom can say anything. It's a political choice, everyone has a political choice," he said. Meanwhile, Minister of Religion Yaqut Cholil Qoumas has explained the joke that choosing AMIN means 'bid'ah. According to him, there is nothing wrong with the joke. "Why is the joke news why? I ask again why is it news? It's not a joke, there's my Head of the Agency, Mr. Amin Suyitno, where's the fault?" Yaqut explained at the DPR Building, Thursday, September 14.

Yaqut then asked if there was a presidential candidate with the name AMIN. He didn't even know that AMIN was an acronym for the Anies-Cak Imin pair. "Oh, I just found out from you that (AMIN Anies-Cak Imin), I don't know that," he said.