Durian. Indonesian Religious Affairs Ministry issued a circular letter on Feb.3 to its civil servants across the country urging them to not be affiliated or supporting banned organizations in Indonesia order to prevent them from extremism, the ministry said on Feb.4.
The circular letter was a form of follow up from the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform (PAN RB) on Jan.25 that ban all civil servants to affiliate, participate and support banned organization directly and indirectly in any from including showing ideas through social media platforms to prevent them from being radical, so can serve public fairly.
Banned organizations according to those letters are Indonesia’s Communist Party (PKI), Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), Fajar Nusantara Movement (Gafatar), Hizbut Tahir Indonesia (HTI), Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) and Islamic Defenders’ Front (FPI).
“Civil servants should highly uphold basic values and must loyal and obey to Pancasila, Constitution 1945, unitary state of the Republic of Indonesia (NKRI) and the legal government and be functioned as adhesives and unifiers of the nation,” Secretary General of the Religious Affairs Ministry Nizar said as quoted from the ministry’s website.
He said affiliation and support to those organizations can create negative radicalism; therefore, it should be prevented.
Civil servants from the ministry are also not allowed to use symbols and attributes of those organizations.
Those who violate the circular letter will face at least disciplinary punishments to being fired.
Public can file complaint to the ministry if find any civil servant from the ministry showing their support and affiliation to those organizations.
In December 2020, Minister Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform Tjahjo Kumolo said every month he must sign fired letter to at least 70s civil servants who were affected by radicalism and terrorism.
