Banyak yang 'menyamakan' ato setidak tidaknya
'membandingkan' partai AKP di Turki seperti
halnya PKS di Indonesia ( kebetulan nama/singkatan
AKP hampir sama artinya dengan PKS ).
Memang ada kemiripan lain, yaitu bahwa
kedua Partai tsb. merupakan hasil "evolusi"
dari bentuk yang lebih "eksklusif" menjadi
lebih "inklusif".
***
Terlepas dari itu, dari segi 'milestone'
yang dicapai oleh politik Islam di Turki,
saya melihatnya lebih mirip dengan momen
munculnya ICMI di warnai oleh Monolitik
Pemerintahan Orde Baru dengan mesin politik
yang bernama Golkar dan ABRI dengan semua
jajaran aparat keamanannya sebagai 'preman'
pelindung kekuasaan. Sistem ini tidak
memperkenankan kekuatan politik lain:
-> Kelompok 'Islam' maupun
-> Kelompok 'Nasionalis' mantan pendukung
Soekarno
Kekuatan kelompok 'Nasionalis' waktu itu bisa
dikatakan sudah tidak kelihatan berarti. Oleh
karena itu fokus pemerintahan pak Harto dkk
adalah tinggal bagaimana mem'bonsai' politik
Islam supaya selama-lamanya "kerdil" dan
"bisa diatur". Oleh mereka kelompok-2 Islam
di"benturkan" dengan isu idoelogi Pancasila
dengan berbagai cara, including with very
dirty tricks, supaya ada alasan bagi "tukang
-tukang pukul" nya pak Harto memberangus
mereka.
Alhamdulillah keadaan tiba-tiba berubah.
Berawal dari ide kecil beberapa Mahasiswa
Teknik Mesin Unbraw ( I happen to know mas
Erik, one of them ) untuk membentuk
suatu wadah bagi para intelektual Muslim
di Indonesia yang kemudian mendapat
sambutan dari BJ Habibie yang waktu itu
menjadi Menristek, bola salju mulai
menggelinding.
Satu kunci strategis yang berhasil diperankan
ICMI waktu itu a.l. adalah seruan kepada para
intelektual Muslim Indonesia agar "melupakan"
masalah perbedaan/friksi ideologi dulu,
dan merubah prioritas agenda menjadi agenda
pemberdayaan & pencerdasan Ummat.
Impactnya cukup besar. Waktu itu dengan "ajaib"
kita bisa menjumpai tokoh-tokoh Islam yang
dikenal tokoh "kanan" seperti Dr. Ir. Imaduddin
Abdurrahim ( yang pernah menjadi Ketua Yayasan
Pembina Masjid Salman ITB ) bisa duduk di dalam
forum yang sama dengan pejabat-2 yang dikenal
lebih "sekuler" dan dekat dengan pak Harto.
There was no doubt, waktu itu pak Harto mulai
"mengurangi" kepercayaannya kepada ABRI dan
mulai mencari basis dukungan di kalangan
Islam, mencari "new political equilibrium".
ABRI pun mulai merasa "segan" mengusik kelompok
Islam. Sejak saat itu memang tidak kedengaran lagi
ada peristiwa kekerasan yang melibatkan "Islam"
berskala besar seperti di era 1980 an:
Jama'ah Imron (pembajakan pesawat Woyla & peristiwa
Cicendo), peristiwa Lampung, Peristiwa Tanjung Priok
dsb. Di tahun 1990, sudah jelas pengaruh "Ali Moertopo"
sudah bisa dikatakan habis.
***
Momen itulah yang saya lihat pada saat ini berhasil
dicapai oleh Muslim Turki, untuk melepaskan diri
dari belenggu Militer Turki yang meng-claim diri
sebagai 'pengawal setia Sekularisme/Kemalisme'.
Allahu Akbar,
sadaqa wa'dah
wa nashara abdah
wa a'azza jundah
wa hazamal ahzaba wahdah
----( ihsan hm )-------------------------------
note:
-----
namanya juga sejarah, tentu saja ICMI juga punya
kelemahan-2 an, yang kemudian membuat beberapa
orang tokoh seperti Amin Rais akhirnya memutuskan
keluar - karena ICMI beliau nilai "tidak berani"
mengritik seacra frontal kepada pemerintah Orba.
( juga Emha yang kecewa dgn alasan serupa, karena
ICMI tidak berani mengritik kesewenang-2 an
pemerintah dalam menangani ganti rugi penduduk
yang tergusur proyek waduk Kedung Ombo; dan
tentu saja Gus Dur yang sejak semula 'anti' ICMI :) }
August 28, 2007
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Ex-Islamist Gul elected Turkey's president
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By Hidir Goktas and Paul de Bendern 37 minutes ago
ANKARA (Reuters) - Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul was
elected Turkey's next president on Tuesday, the first
former Islamist to take the post in the secular but
predominantly Muslim country's modern history.
"Abdullah Gul in the third round obtained an absolute
majority and was elected the 11th president of Turkey
with 339 votes," parliament speaker Koksal Toptan said
after the vote.
The AK Party has 341 seats in the 550-seat chamber.
Two other candidates also stood for president.
Gul has established himself as a respected diplomat
since the AK Party was first elected in 2002, securing
the launch of Turkey's European Union entry talks. He
pledges to be a leader for all Turks, but he is not to
the taste of a military which suspects the AK Party of
harboring a secret Islamist agenda.
Armed forces chief General Yasar Buyukanit said on
Monday he saw "centers of evil" seeking to undermine
the secular republic, a statement suggesting the army
would not stand on the sidelines if it saw the separation
between religion and state threatened.
Many observers expect Gul, who broke with an Islamist
party in 1999, will try to avoid confrontation.
"You shouldn't expect radical moves with Gul as president.
Both his opponents, who are scared he might do so, will be
surprised and his supporters hoping for radical moves will
be disappointed," said academic expert Cengiz Candar.
Turkish financial markets, hurt by weaker global markets,
were under further pressure following the army statement.
The lira showed little reaction to the vote, easing to
1.3260 against the dollar.
HEADSCARF IN THE PALACE
The secular elite and Turkey's generals, who have ousted
four governments since 1960, are wary of Gul's Islamist
past and alarmed at the prospect of his wife wearing the
Islamic headscarf in the Cankaya presidential palace.
The headscarf is for many a potent symbol of the religious
influence that soldier-turned-politician Mustafa Kemal
Ataturk banished from public life when he founded the
modern, Western-style republic on the ruins of the
Ottoman Empire.
But a survey by the KONDA agency conducted for Milliyet
newspaper showed that 72.6 percent of participants regarded
it as "normal" for the wife of the president to wear a
headscarf, while 19.8 percent said they would be uncomfortable
about it.
Turkey, a key member of NATO, has been mired in political
turmoil since April when the AK Party first nominated Gul
as its candidate. The crisis sparked early parliamentary
elections.
Electing Gul marks a sweet victory for the AK Party, which
has gradually moved more to the centre of the Turkish
political landscape. It completes its capture of all
top state institutions.
In Turkey, the government holds most power but the president
can veto laws and appointments of officials, and name judges.
The post carries moral weight as it was first held by Ataturk.
Erdogan and Gul -- who have both broken with political
Islam -- say they are loyal to secularism and that their
party's July landslide win gives Gul a strong presidential
mandate.
"One of the striking qualities is that he will be affectionate
to the public. It'll open the presidential palace to the
people. It was too much of an isolated place in the last
seven years," Candar told Reuters.
Few expect the army to intervene directly after their strong
public statements earlier this year appeared to backfire and
helped secure more votes for the AK Party in July elections.
Erdogan said he planned to present his new cabinet, expected
to be made up of reformists, for approval on Wednesday to Gul.
(Additional reporting by Emma Ross-Thomas in Ankara and Daren
Butler in Istanbul)
