Banning FPI is No Solution

Banning all activity of the Islam Defenders Front solved nothing. There should be a strategic cultural design to address extremism.

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January 11, 2021

THE government should not have taken the short cut of stopping all activities of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI). Aside from solving nothing, banning activities and organization’s attributes violated the constitution.

The Republic of Indonesia’s Constitution is definite in its protection of the freedom to convene, to associate and to state one’s opinion in public. Thoughts, ideology and ideas cannot be put on trial nor be perse

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