Saya ulang: kita kudu merasa senang melihat siapapun yang
datang
menolong orang Aceh yang sedang ditimpa kemalangan.
Bila mereka memang datang untuk menolong.
Termasuk setan.
Jadi juga termasuk anggota FPI yang dulu rajin merusakkan cafe
dan restoran.
Dengan catatan: mereka itu memang datang untuk menolong dan
memang menolong orang Aceh dan bukan merampok.
Terlepas dari itu, kebijaksanaan pemerintah untuk memberi
mereka
biaya untuk datang ke Aceh itu tetap kudu dipertanyakan.
Kenapa mereka yang diberi bantuan ongkos jalan dan bukan
orang
lain?
Apa alasan pilihan ini?
Dan bagaimana pertanggungan jawabnya?
Uang negara Indonesia adalah milik semua orang Indonesia dan
penggunaannya harus dipertanggugn jawabkan kepada seluruh orang
Indonesia.
Radicals pitch in to clean up and keep Islamic law
By Matthew Moore, Herald Correspondent in Banda Aceh
January 6, 2005
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Helping out ... FPI members drill before other chores.
Radical Islamic groups best known for smashing bars and violent
support of the jailed cleric Abu Bakar Bashir have sent large
contingents of their members to Aceh with funding provided by the
Indonesian Government.
At Banda Aceh's airport, trucks with supplies to be ferried to
disaster-struck areas by US Navy helicopters have been unloaded
by
members of Bashir's group, the MMI, including one man proudly
wearing
an Osama bin Laden T-shirt.
Members of the FPI (Islamic Defenders Front), famous for its
attacks
on nightspots in Jakarta, are now living in Banda Aceh in tents
provided by the army and the Ministry of Social Affairs.
The head of the FPI contingent, Hilmy Bakar Almascaty, said about
250
members had come to Aceh with tickets provided by the
Government; 800
more on board an Indonesian warship would help clean up the
devastated province.
"FPI is not only an organisation that destroys bars and discos, it
has a humanitarian side as well that the media is not happy to
expose," Dr Almascaty said.
Early yesterday 50 of his troops wearing FPI shirts went through a
series of military drills before heading off to the city to help
collect corpses still not recovered from the millions of tonnes of
rubble.
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AdvertisementDr Almascaty said his group had held discussions
with
the head of the army, General Ryamizard Ryacudu, the Defence
Minister, Juwono Sudarsono and the Vice-President, Jusuf Kalla,
and
had come to Aceh with the full backing of the Government.
He said his members were in Aceh to help, although the army in the
past has often been accused of using Islamic groups to fight its
battles, especially in divided communities like Aceh.
Dr Almascaty agreed that, as well as helping gather corpses and
clean
up mosques, the FPI had come to play another role.
He said he was determined to ensure the arrival of foreign soldiers
and aid workers did not lead to a breakdown in the system of
syariah,
or Islamic law, which has been in nominal operation in Aceh for
several years.
"If anyone who comes here does not respect the syariah law,
traditions and constitution, we must give them a warning and then
we
must attack," he said.
Dr Almascaty said his group was co-ordinating with MMI and with
another hardline group banned in many countries, Hizbut Tharir, in a
plan to curtail Western influence.
"You cannot build a bar here. If you go to your room to drink that is
no problem, but you can't drink in a public area," he said.
He warned foreign soldiers and aid workers: "Don't go with
Acehnese
women, with Muslim women. If you come here and take women and
try to
westernise them, this is a problem for me."
Dr Almascaty said he had already met the Indonesian military
commander in Aceh, General Endang Suwarya, and urged him to
set aside
areas "to keep the US separate".
The head of the MMI contingent, Salman al Furizi, said his group of
50 young men from central Java had flown to Banda Aceh on a
military
aircraft. He was prepared to put aside his vehement opposition to
the
US because of the help it was providing.
"We have to understand this is a disaster, so we are not talking
about other problems," he said.
Dr Almascaty also welcomed the Americans and other traditional
enemies of his group. "At the moment they have come as an angel,"
he
said. "We don't know about tomorrow."
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