Refl: Kalimantan menolak, tetapi di Pulau Jawa tidak ditolak, itu bedanya. 
Siapa tahu karena penolakan ini akan dikirim misi seperti Laskar Jihad Sunnah 
Wal Jamaah yang dulu disponsor oleh SBy & Co ke Sulawesi Tengah dan Maluku, 
maka masalahnja akan menjadi rumit, jadi sedia payung sebelum datang hujan 
gurun pasir.


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FPI Unwelcome in E. Kalimantan
Tunggadewa Mattangkilang | February 21, 2012

 Community leaders in Central Kalimantan asked the FPI not to divide the unity 
and integrity of the area. (Antara Photo/Rachmad Hidayat)The anti-Islamic 
Defenders Front sentiment continued on Monday as residents in Balikpapan, the 
capital of East Kalimantan, made it clear the hard-line group wasn’t wanted in 
their city. 

Following similar protests in Central Kalimantan and Jakarta, groups gathered 
under the Balikpapan City Kalimantan Society Forum said the FPI, as the 
hard-liners are known, were not welcome. The forum also demanded that President 
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono disband the FPI. 

“They often conduct raids, which is against the law, as if the state did not 
have law enforcers,” said forum head Bayer Gabriel, addressing a rally in front 
of the City Hall. 

“We call on the president to disband the FPI and we reject their presence in 
Kalimantan.” 

The group read out a statement addressed to Balikapapan Mayor Rizal Effendi and 
the head of the East Kalimantan Legislative Council, Andi Burhanudin Solong. It 
said the FPI was a threat to the ethnic, religious and racial harmony in the 
community. 

He said the FPI was involved in violent activities that were against the law, 
and its presence in the city and province would only sow discord. 

The FPI has long operated in Jakarta, raiding nightclubs seemingly with no fear 
of the police. 

But an upsurge of anti-FPI sentiment has followed in incident on Feb. 11 in 
Palangkaraya, the capital of Central Kalimantan, when a group of Dayak 
tribesmen gathered at the airport to protest the arrival of FPI leaders who 
were flying in to open a branch office there. The plane was forced to land in 
neighboring South Kalimantan. 

Officials there, including from the police and the military, and community and 
religious leaders issued statements supporting the banning of the FPI from 
Central Kalimantan. 

A similar anti-FPI protest took place in Jakarta last week. 

Bayer said they did not oppose the group on religious grounds, but were 
concerned that it would undermine the pluralism of Kalimantan society, where it 
is not uncommon for members of the same family to come from different 
religions. 

“We ask the police not to be afraid to take action against anarchic mass 
organizations. We only want peace in Borneo,” he said. 

He called on city authorities not to issue permit for the FPI to register in 
the city. 

The head of Balikpapan’s national unity and political affairs office, Syaiful 
Bachri, said the FPI had not yet attempted to register with the city 
authorities. 

“Their past behavior will of course be part of our decision-making process,” he 
said. “But as long as it does not go against the Constitution and Pancasila, 
they can register.” 

The Constitution provides equal footing for all six of the state-recognized 
religions. The state’s Pancasila philosophy recognizes the value of plurality. 

Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi has said the FPI is one violation away from 
having its license suspended. He said the ministry had issued a second warning 
letter when members of the group pelted the ministry with rocks last month in 
protest of the alleged decision to annul local bylaws banning alcohol sales. 

Under the 1985 Law on Mass Organizations, the ministry monitors all civil 
organizations in the country and has the authority to disband any group that 
causes losses to the state. 

The FPI has been accused of using violent tactics to enforce its views of 
Shariah law. 

Last month, an FPI leader in South Sulawesi was sentenced to five months in 
prison for the destruction of private property during a series of 
FPI-sanctioned raids on food stalls and restaurants operating during the 
fasting month of Ramadan. But cases of FPI members being brought to justice are 
rare.

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