Youth Groups & Activists Running Amok
Mar 19th, 2008, in News, by PatungBoisterous youth groups in search of alcohol and the attractions of Batam.
There is a quote in the film “Ayat Ayat Cinta“,
Sabar dan ikhlas. Itu adalah Islam! (Patience and sincerity. That’s what Islam is!)
There may be plenty of people who manage to live up to this, as far as is humanly possible, these people don’t appear to be among them:
The Sport of Sweeping in Solo
In Solo/Surakarta on the night of 17th March a group of what are variously described in the media as “thugs”, or “youths”, or less harshly “local residents”, were having a party on the street, and some of them were drunk, or were in the process of getting drunk.
From a neighbouring district hundreds of men from the Muslimin mosque, called by the media either “activists” or “youths”, or “members of the Laskar Islam Solo”, arrived on foot and attempted to break up the party. The partygoers resisted but were outnumbered and in an ensuing brawl two of them suffered serious head injuries, in one case fatal.
Police eventually detained over 100 men, it seems all from the “mosque activists” team, after an hours’ long stand-off at a mosque, where the men had to be negotiated with before they would surrender, and in the end some of them put up a fight anyway. republika
The next day Khalid Syaifullah, the Executive Director of the “Front Perlawanan Penculikan” (Anti-Kidnapping Front, see “Terrorist Kidnapping“), and representing the “Laskar Islam Solo”, said the mosque activists were tricked by the police into surrendering, and the police were now unjustly holding the men as suspects. He also said the men had since been beaten by police while in custody. okezone
The Lure of Batam
And on the 18th members of the South Sulawesi branch of the “Pergerakan Mahasiswa Islam Indonesia” (PMII), Islamic University Students Movement, had gathered expectantly at the PMII headquarters in Jakarta waiting to be transported to a PMII conference on the island of Batam.
Possibly because the PMII had booked Adam Air, or not, some transport problem prevented the students from leaving for Batam, and crestfallen, the boys expressed their disappointment on the furniture and windows of the building, smashing them.
Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) leader Syaiful Bahri Ansori said although the PMII was nothing to do with the NU organisationally, people knew that PMII members tended to be NU members as well and he was worried and shocked at their behaviour. He also hoped the PMII organisers would improve their act. antara
58 Comments on “Youth Groups & Activists Running Amok”
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dewaratugedeanom says:
Cukurungan
…but now the monster was converting to Islam…
🙂
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janma says:
Cuk said,
liberate our aboriginal brother from the white infidels claw and he will remain in Muslim until his death.
I was wondering cuk, aren’t aboriginals and native americans also infidels? Why don’t you just worry about your muslim business and let us infidels worry about ours…. I really don’t need any religious people around me while I’m killing women and children.
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Murphy says:
Janma said:
Murphy, the joke maybe on you”¦.. Aluang may actually have passed through understanding the situation and come out the otherside already, hence the burlesque.
It really depends on what is your pre-conception of Islam, Bu Janma. If the images of Islam in your mind consist of Middle-East violence, Indonesia Matters’ “selected articles”, Abu Bakar Baasyir, and the 1001 nights harem, then, of course, you will not question all Aluang’s insinuations.
But if you follow the life of most Indonesian muslims, their religious experience mostly consists of the peaceful morning or evening sermons, the 5-times daily meditations, the joy of breaking the fast during Ramadhan, the 99.9% monogamous marriages all the way back to their great-great grandfather and yes, celebrate Valentine’s Day.
You know their life resembles nothing like Indonesia Matters articles.
The articles and comments posted in this website are carefully selected to show or (or more precisely, fish) violent, hateful and intolerant minorities from both sides, the muslims and the non-muslims. And instead of addressing the issues (which is more difficult because it involves a novel process called thinking), Aluang took the easy way out: oh, it must be the religion; the barbaric-hateful-violent religion. And with Google’s help it is easy to quote several verses out-of-context to provide entertainment for the masses here.
If you listen to typical sermon in the mosque, Bu Jamna, the preacher would painstakingly tell the history of the verse, explain the grammatical implications of every choice of word, and then elaborate what are the interpretations from different school of thought to that particular verse. And believe me, what was concluded in a typical sermon resembles nothing of Aluang’s way of “understanding”.
His is simply insult; and not even good one.
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Cukurungan says:
I was wondering cuk, aren’t aboriginals and native americans also infidels? Why don’t you just worry about your muslim business and let us infidels worry about ours”¦. I really don’t need any religious people around me while I’m killing women and children.
Aboriginal and Native America is not infidels because they are fully comply to something God revealed them that is the nature law and they make a living without destroying the nature balance but the white infidels saw this friendly and armless people as the easy target for satisfying their greedy.
The infidels is the people who betrayed God holy scripture revealed to them, as every body know that Jesus never f**K a woman and kill even an animal but today the people who claim their self as Jesus Followers are sinning all over the world with their free f**k and killing culture and destroying the world natural balance.
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Oigal says:
Good on you Chuck always good for a laugh..(remember we are laughing at you not with you)
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Murphy, Maybe the ugly sides of Islam need to be talked about in order to preserve the good sides of Islam. Definitely Indonesia Matters is not a site for whitewashing a thing. Someone pointed out in a thread somewhere…. how many people want to read, Man does sholat, gets on with neighbours” or some such thing….
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most Indonesian muslims, their religious experience mostly consists of the peaceful morning or evening sermons, the 5-times daily meditations, the joy of breaking the fast during Ramadhan, the 99.9% monogamous marriages all the way back to their great-great grandfather and yes, celebrate Valentine’s Day.
muslims
It’s them that need to be talking about all these negative aspects…. to stop their religion being hijacked by these radical elements.Cuk….. I love this…
friendly and armless people
Had me in tears for a moment…..
but as to infidel status, I had no idea that living in harmony with nature was counted as being a ‘believer’…… so if I go tie myself to a tree and eat roots and leaves, I’m no longer an infidel and will go to heaven? Surely you’re making it up? -
Do you think Cuk meant they were harmless and it’s just a typo? but I have these visions of torsos running around armless…. lucky they were Muslims just by virtue of being nature lovers and victims, cause they would have had a terrible time doing sholat without arms…
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Murphy said
If you listen to typical sermon in the mosque, Bu Jamna, the preacher would painstakingly tell the history of the verse, explain the grammatical implications of every choice of word, and then elaborate what are the interpretations from different school of thought to that particular verse.
so that the umat keeps standing in awe for the koranic literacy of the preacher and – what is of paramount importance – doesn’t start thinking for themselves about the essence and purpose of it.
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djoko says:
@ Janma and Murphy
Definitely Indonesia Matters is not a site for whitewashing a thing. Someone pointed out in a thread somewhere”¦. how many people want to read, Man does sholat, gets on with neighbours” or some such thing”¦.
I was the one that said that Janma, and actually I was half being sarcastic. I’m pretty much in agreement with Murphy in the sense that most Muslims (even religious ones), just get on with life. No rioting, no bombing, no beatings or anything. Some even break out of normality and do overtly nice things. I read a few days ago about santri from a pesantren in Jepara making a mobile library they take around to people in their district, trying to promote a culture of reading. Other Islamic organisations and even parties also often hold free clinics and cheap markets for the poor and low-income earners. This is the kind of thing which doesn’t make it into Indonesia matters.
But as I think someone (it was dewa I’m fair sure) pointed out in another thread, if you have a look at the ‘about’ section of Indonesia Matters, you’ll find thats precisely the kind of story which not only does not make it into IM, but won’t. Its not part of the site’s vision or objective. From the ‘about’ section:
Good news is often no news, this site focuses on, for example, stories of extremist Muslims and bigoted people – however not all Indonesians are like that. This site makes no attempt to tell the whole story of Indonesia, just several parts of it.
Blogs, despite people’s best wishes, are by no means about balance Murphy, they’re about presenting a particular point of view. In IM’s case, that point of view is that there are extremist Muslims out there.
As for comments on articles which conclude (or rather promote the view) that its not just some Muslims who are extremist, but rather that all Muslims are and the religion of Islam itself is inherently evil, well patung doesn’t have a lot of control over that. Excessive moderation of comments wouldn’t be good for business either as one of the stated aims of the site is to be profitable.
As much as I agree with the points of view you put out here, you really can’t go blaming patung or the site for the kind of stories published. The only thing you can do is post your own say and move on. Or better yet make your own blog to focus on other parts of the ‘story of Indonesia’. Ultimately its up to individual whether they take side with your view or another.
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Lairedion says:
Janma,
Probably Cuk meant without weapons, not armed….
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riyoz says:
“so that the umat keeps standing in awe for the koranic literacy of the preacher and – what is of paramount importance – doesn’t start thinking for themselves about the essence and purpose of it.”
Not quite….coz’ the Prophet SAW himself encourages muslims to seek for and obtain as knowledge as possible in Islamic teachings aswell as scientific knowledge….”Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave”….the preachers are regarded mainly as triggers, gates or stepping stones we don’t ‘worship’ them…their part is only to jump-start the umats to seek more knowledge themselves….and that’s why we have halaqahs or ‘pengajians’, where muslims with more knowledge share his/her knowledge with other muslims and to invite those other muslims to seek even more knowledge themselves…..the Quran is open to all muslims to read and study :)…
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Lairedion said,
Probably Cuk meant without weapons, not armed”¦.
LOL…. I know….. just having fun.
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@djoko
But as I think someone (it was dewa I’m fair sure) pointed out in another thread, if you have a look at the ‘about’ section of Indonesia Matters, you’ll find thats precisely the kind of story which not only does not make it into IM, but won’t. Its not part of the site’s vision or objective. From the ‘about’ section:
Good news is often no news, this site focuses on, for example, stories of extremist Muslims and bigoted people – however not all Indonesians are like that. This site makes no attempt to tell the whole story of Indonesia, just several parts of it.
It may come as a surprise to you but actually I have several Muslim friends even from outside Indonesia. They know that, although they don’t share my view, I am not attacking Muslims but after reading the Qur’an and hadith became critical of the theological and historical aspects of Islam and its consequences. I understand people need paradigms to live by but this doesn’t mean I have to stay silent.
A French saying is du choc des idées jaillit la lumière meaning ‘light springs from the collision of ideas’. -
@ dewa
I understand people need paradigms to live by but this doesn’t mean I have to stay silent.
By the same token, people who have their life paradigms attacked are not likely to stay silent either heheh.
A French saying is du choc des idées jaillit la lumière meaning ‘light springs from the collision of ideas’.
That’s where we need to be.
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djoko said:
As for comments on articles which conclude (or rather promote the view) that its not just some Muslims who are extremist, but rather that all Muslims are and the religion of Islam itself is inherently evil, well patung doesn’t have a lot of control over that. Excessive moderation of comments wouldn’t be good for business either as one of the stated aims of the site is to be profitable.
Can’t argue that, djoko.
It came to me that the sober posters are actually the free riders. They normally don’t post much, do they? They just enjoy this fantastic site from the hits generated by the mud slingers. Such is life.
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Had me in tears for a moment”¦..
but as to infidel status, I had no idea that living in harmony with nature was counted as being a ‘believer'”¦”¦ so if I go tie myself to a tree and eat roots and leaves, I’m no longer an infidel and will go to heaven? Surely you’re making it up?Hi hi hi ..sorry Bu Janma if my high quality english have made you so confuse, God say that every people shall be judge based on a law in which reveleaded upon each of them( Bible, Quran and Veda or anything) , in the aborigal and red indian case what is God revealed to them..Quran? no…Talmud? no…Injil? no…God give them only the natural law so that as long as they do not destroy the nature balance they shall not be punished for anything because that is all they have and not like you.
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God give them only the natural law so that as long as they do not destroy the nature balance they shall not be punished for anything because that is all they have and not like you.
Yeah, God revealed the Law of Nature to the Aborigines and Native Americans so they shall not be punished. That’s why they were overrun and almost destroyed by white Christians in the name of God. Up until today they feel very blessed for not being punished by God.
Interesting theory you’re cooking up here, brother Cuk.
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Aluang Anak Bayang says:
@ Murphy
Another Bule convert having a beef with me. I have come across many of your type. So let’s get this straight. Be honest (if you are capable).
As I know, Bules are ONLY attracted to Islam because of halal sex with little children. Just because they read about or seen elderly Arab men shagging little girls in the Indian Sub-Continent, they queued up in drove to Indonesian; unaware that Indonesian Islam is largely influenced by Kejawen. This is not the Middle-East or the Indian Sub Continent. Little children are protected from sexual predators like your kind. You will be gutted like a fish if you touched any of our Indonesian kids.
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Aluang boy,
You seem very bright for your kind. Have you considered a career with Eukanuba?
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shorty says:
cuk, dewa, riyoz, aluang and others……..can we get past the philosophical/religious/point scoring crap?
i’m interested to know your responses to……………
1. …….The Sport of Sweeping in Solo…..is this action and the result justifiable? is vigilante action which results in death right?
2………The Lure of Batam………is the destruction of property an acceptable response to a delayed/cancelled flight – particularly when the property is owned by someone not involved in the problem?
no diatribes, just simple yes/no.
for the record my answers are.
1. no, no
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Murphy Says:
March 28th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
Aluang boy,You seem very bright for your kind. Have you considered a career with Eukanuba
Murphy Pedo,
As a matter of fact, I am considering working for Pedo-Watch.
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aluang…….when you’ve finished fighting murphy, what’s your response to my questions?
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shorty,
What’s the point of oversimplifying your comments by just answering yes or no? This is not the purpose of blogging and discussing in the public domain.
Most bloggers want to learn and exchange ideas and thoughts and some of them use a fair dose of sarcasm, twisted humor or some strong statements now and then to fire up a discussion. I consider myself one of those. There are bloggers just pulling legs and throwing out baits and there are those naive bloggers biting those baits over and over again. Probably there are more types.
All this together make blogs an interesting place to be and it would be boring if we are just dropping comments with yes or no, agree or disagree.
FYI my answers are the same as yours… not based on religion or philosophy but on common sense.
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Riyoz says:
oow..sorry, shorty….well personally i don’t condone such unecessary violence like what happened in solo (though I’m not quite sure who started the fight and you know how the media twisted and turned news stories now and then), it was unecessary and perhaps things could turn-out differently if they leave emotion out of it….:)…the same goes to the incident in sulawesi….
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Lairedion/riyoz…. appreciate & take your points. I too like the the free flow of thought and opinion a blog provides….red herrings, sarcasm, parody bring it on. I also like to read other bloggers views on the chosen subject.
It was an attempt to bring discussion back to the subject. After all, if we didn’t have an issue, patung could just post…’go for it!’
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1. “¦”¦.The Sport of Sweeping in Solo”¦..is this action and the result justifiable? is vigilante action which results in death right?
Yes
This sweeping is justified because there was already too many youth group got drunk and involved criminal action while they still drunk.
If they want to get drunk OK..that is their personnel matter but they shall do it in their home or available Bar/ Cafe ..but if they do it in the street or other public area I will kill them2″¦”¦”¦The Lure of Batam”¦”¦”¦is the destruction of property an acceptable response to a delayed/cancelled flight – particularly when the property is owned by someone not involved in the problem?
No
Perpetrators can be sue according to applicable law
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cuk,
if drunken youths are involved in criminal activity or unacceptable social behaviour surely this is a matter for the police/law.
i don’t quite understand your logic – smash a few windows and it’s a matter for the law.
get drunk and it’s ok to sweep – even someone gets killed – last i heard murder is illegal.
how about my earlier question – what if the drunks were muslim (yes it does happen) and the travellers hindu/christian?
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