If There Is A Study Of Whispers In A Mosque, JK: The Management Must Be Vigilant And Reprimand

Jusuf Kalla (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Indonesian Mosque Council (DMI) Jusuf Kalla appealed to all mosque administrators to be aware of radical religious studies.

"Be careful when in the mosque groups of four to five people and then there is a teacher, studying in a whisper. The mosque management must admonish it, don't let them be studying radicalism, ”said JK during the Mudzakarah for Islamic Spiritual Guidance for Ministries / Non-Ministry Government Institutions and BUMN Mosque at the Novotel Hotel Mangga Dua Jakarta, reported by Antara, Wednesday, March 31.

Such radical religious studies must receive early attention from mosque administrators and the community, so that they do not develop into acts of terror.

Although these radical studies may have taken place in mosques, JK said that no mosque was used as a place to plan terror or build bombs.

"Terror in several regions has been revealed that it was planned and arranged in rented houses," said the 10th and 12th Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia.

"If we look at the investigations of terrorist suspects, it never mentions that they designed the action from the mosque. Generally, it (acts of terror) were designed and planned in a rented house," he said.

Likewise, the suicide bombing terror at the Makassar Cathedral on Sunday (28/3), the perpetrators designed an action and assembled a bomb in a rented house.

"Including the perpetrators of the Makassar Cathedral Church bombing, it was designed in a rented house near his mother's house," he said.

According to JK, the nature of mosques that are open to all Islamic groups is the reason for the absence of mosques to be used as bomb assemblies and to organize acts of terror.

"The mosque was not used as a place for planning and planning for acts of terror because the mosque was open in nature, not limited by groups; even though it was built by Muhammadiyah people, NU people (Nahdlatul Ulama) may pray there," he said.