No `Haram` Fatwa on BPJS, MUI Chairman Clarifies

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Minggu, 2 Agustus 2015 06:38 WIB

Some residents in the service office he Healthcare and Social Security Agency (BPJS) Jakarta (3/6). Tempo/Tony Hartawan

TEMPO.CO, Makassar - Chairman of the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) Din Syamsuddin denied that MUI had issued a fatwa (edict) declaring that the national health insurance (JKN) program as haram (forbidden in Islam).

Din considered that the recent news on the edict was a result of a misunderstanding in interpreting recommendations made during the MUI ‘ijtima’ meeting a couple weeks ago.

Din, who is also chairman of the Muhammadiyah, the country’s second largest Islamic organization, ensured that MUI never issued a fatwa on BPJS. As for the recommendations made during the meeting, he said, they are only suggestion to improve BPJS.

“And after I checked it, there’s no the word ‘haram’ in it,” Din added.

Din further said that the MUI Fatwa Commission works to get answers from ulemas to the questions from the people about many issues and they later issue decisions in the form of either a fatwa or a recommendation.

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