Said Aqil The Value Of Al Zaytun Islamic Boarding Schools Can Produce Radical, Extreme And Intolerance Movements

Coordinating Minister For Political, Legal And Security Affairs Mahfud MD (right) accompanied by the Leadership of the Islamic Ormas Friendship Institute (LPOI) Kyai Said Aqil Siradj (left) gave a press statement /ANTARA

JAKARTA - Chairman of the Islamic Ormas Friendship Institute (LPOI) Said Aqil Siradj assessed that Al Zaytun Islamic Boarding School could produce radical, extreme, and intolerant movements. "Al Zaytun must be examined as a closed and exclusive community and ecosystem that has a separate way of life and life with the community in general," Said Aqil said in his statement in Jakarta, quoted from Antara, Monday, July 17. So, he said, it is not impossible with closedness giving birth to a lot of camouflage, and exclusivity drives radical, extreme, and intolerant values. "In time, it is not impossible to become an embryo of the anti-NKRI movement, especially when viewed from the background and behavior of pesantren leaders who have a background of NII (Indonesian Islamic State) and several facts of movement, network, and alumni," he said. According to him, the Al Zaytun phenomenon should not only be seen as a pure educational institution in general, but must be seen in depth. That the indoctrination process, said Said, should be suspected as a phenomenon of the ideological process, regeneration, and anti-Pancasila and/or anti-NKRI movements. "Don't be fooled by a neat package of formal education-based learning with the government's standard curriculum and religious learning that is instilled because it's not impossible it's just a camouflage," he said. The statement is based on the many testimonies about the existence of "schools in schools", "caderising in regeneration", and even worthy of suspicion that the ecosystem, management, and organs of movement they create lead to the formation of "states within the country". "The state must not lose to the syndicate of Al Zaytun," added Said Aqil. He urged the government to act decisively in conducting a comprehensive investigation and carry out investigations into existing cases, as well as to open this phenomenon to the public.

"The state must immediately take over Al Zyatun, fix and reinstall the Al Zaytun education system so that it does not conflict with the ideals of the Republic of Indonesia and strictly maintain so that it does not become a place for the seeds of the Islamic State of Indonesia (NII)," said Said Aqil.