TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) announced the controversial Gerakan Fajar Nusantara (Gafatar) had deviant teachings after a long discussion over the last two weeks.
“Over the last two weeks, we found three evidences [to declare Gafatar as a deviant group],” MUI Fatwa Commission Secretary Asrorun Ni’am Sholeh said on Wednesday, February 3, 2016.
According to Asrorun, Gafatar incorporated religious teaching in their activities. The finding had dismissed Gafatar leader’s statement that the group was a social organization with no religious association.
The MUI also found Al-Qiyadah al-Islamiyah’s doctrines in Gafatar’s activities as Ahmad Musadeq, the leader of the group, was inaugurated as the messiah.
“The third point was the existence of Abrahamic teachings that mix Islamic, Christian and Jewish teachings by interpreting Koranic verses without standard interpretation rules,” Asrorun said.
Asrorun added the fact that Gafatar did not obligate its members to pray five times a day, perform fasting (in Ramadhan) and go to Mecca for a pilgrimage journey had been the considerations for the MUI to declare the group as a deviant one.
The Attorney General’s Office had probed another Gafatar leader Mahful Muis Tumanurung and Mahful said that his organization aimed at realizing the food resilience with the ideology of Pancasila. Mahful refused the accusation of being deviant since Gafatar members had decided to leave Islam.
ISTMAN MP