BNPT Reveal Pattern Of Khilafatul Muslimin Spreading Khilafah Ideology

JAKARTA - The National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT) revealed the pattern of the Khilafatul Muslimin Group spreading the caliphate ideology after the organization's supreme leader Abdul Qadir Baraja was arrested by police officers in Lampung on Tuesday, June 7. among others, under the guise of recitation or da'wah," said Director of Prevention BNPT Police Brigadier General R. Ahmad Nurwakhid in a written statement received in Jakarta, Wednesday, June 8. He said the ideology that contradicted Pancasila was also spread through open campaigns, including convoys, spreading regular bulletins every month, and through the internet. From these various patterns, he said, it was known that the Khilafatul Muslimin had a hidden agenda to replace the Pancasila ideology with the Khilafah ideology. community organization at the Ministry of Law and Human Rights (Kemenkumham). However, the organization has a large branch distribution, there are at least 23 regional offices and three daulas in Java, Sumatra and Eastern Indonesia. Baraja was not only arrested for the first time but had previously been arrested and sentenced twice for his involvement in a terrorist network. The first was in January 1979 related to the Warman Terror and second, he was arrested for the bombings in East Java and Borobudur in early 1985.

"So once again the issue of ideology cannot be broken through bars, but it requires a transformation to an alternative ideology," said Nurwakhid. (KM) which of course is not just punished but requires a process of dialogue, deradicalization, and ideological development. "It will be very difficult if the target is the figures and their ideologies," he said. leaders among community groups who desire a caliphate, while Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) or other radical groups are still considered to be still fighting for the caliphate. The effect, he said, was that became a magnet for radical groups in various countries to emigrate to Iraq and Syria. Likewise, the claim of the caliphate of Baraja who has a big magnet for people who are already polluted with the ideology of the caliphate. shallow and vulnerable to being recruited as terrorists.