Memories Of FPI Night Entertainment And Alcohol Raids

JAKARTA - The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) is one of the most popular mass organizations in Indonesia. Its popularity is none other than because of the big breakthrough in formulating Makruf nahi mungkar. Invite to goodness and stay away from bad.

Tinduk action was shown through their actions in society. They become defenders of the community who are mitigated victims of evictions. However, there are also actions that tarnish the bad name of FPI in society. The action when FPI was considered to be using violence during night entertainment raids.

Amar makruf nahi mungkar. That is one of the main guides of scholars to founded FPI on August 17, 1998. FPI also grew into an organization that wanted to uphold Islamic values in social life.

They try to record how Islam often sided with the small people and people affected by disasters. FPI likes to play the main defenders of marginalized society. They help a lot when disasters occur in remote areas of the country.

FPI often intervenes to provide assistance, logistics and energy. Sometimes the presence of FPI can be one step faster than the presence of the government. When Aceh was hit by a great tsunami disaster in 2004, it became an example. FPI became the first mass organization to be present in Aceh.

Members of FPI who were disaster volunteers also worked hard. They came to provide assistance to disaster management after the tsunami. They provide logistical assistance. They also helped search for the bodies of tsunami victims among the rubble of the destruction.

Those also linked their bodies and cursed them. The action received praise from many parties. However, the FPI humanitarian agenda is not only a disaster affair. They are actively seen when the Jakarta government tries to overthrow small people's settlements, not necessarily Muslims.

FPI is ready to stand up to help the people. They also provide legal assistance. For FPI leaders who displace the little people do not deserve to be elected. Moreover, leading the citizens of Jakarta. This condition is because the eviction brings many harm rather than benefits.

This kind of assistance was also given by Habib to non-Muslims who needed assistance for land dispute matters. Because it is related to legal issues, Habib handed it over to the FPI legal aid line.

"If Banser used to help guard the church, then the same thing was also done by FPI. After the Istiqlal bombing case, Habib ordered the laskar to guard the churches. Habib Rizieq (2017).

No perfect mass organizations. Likewise with FPI. FPI's actions are widely known not only from its quick response to defending the little people. However, the FPI action was also carried out with controversial steps.

FPI likes to have the idea that efforts to uphold Islamic values cannot be postponed. The matter of the method with other violence is a problem. This condition makes FPI an active mass organization raiding places of immorality, night entertainment or bars that provide alcohol.

They came and immediately made a scene to destroy the place that was considered a hotbed of immorality. This condition also dragged the high priest of FPI, Rizieq Shihab to prison for a 2003 night entertainment raid case.

The cases of FPI raids have surfaced everywhere. This condition makes FPI's name known as a mass organization that is passionate about upholding Islamic values in a harsh way. The echo of FPI's popularity is not only in Jakarta, but on the scale of the archipelago.

However, not a few think that the action of the FPI controversy on night entertainment raids is just an excuse to gain profits. This condition is because FPI likes to choose the targets that are raided. FPI has never raided clubs or bars that are protected by other mass organizations.

FPI has become a new player in a complicated protection economy in Jakarta, using the pretext of defending faith as a means to collect deposits and 'illegal tax' from various legal and dirty businesses, a type of morality that takes advantage of the existence of 'mactic' which it says it wants to make possible.

"The choice of FPI raid targets is taken into account, while clubs, bars, or sewers owned or protected by the military, mass organizations, or other powerful figures, they allow. His relationship with the police at the local level often goes up and down between cooperation and conflict. His anti-mactic activity threatens the deposits obtained by the police from sewers or gambling houses," said Ian Douglas Wilson in the book Politics of Thugs: Street Organizations and Street Authority in Indonesia After the New Order (2018).