TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Leader of the Islamic Defender Front (FPI) Rizieq Shihab, who is also one of the initiators of the anti-communism symposium, visited the Coordinating Minister for Political, Legal, and Security Affairs Luhut Pandjaitan's office.
"We came to deliver nine points of recommendation made during the symposium," Rizieq said on Friday, June 3, 2016.
Rizieq said that the government has agreed to take the recommendations into consideration. "The point is, there is an agreement. We want the government to be assertive," Rizieq added.
Rizieq also requested the government to ban any movement or the use of attributes related to communism. "The most important thing is, the government must not apologize to the [Indonesia Communist Party]," Rizieq said.
In relation to the reconciliation suggestion delivered by an earlier national symposium on the 1965 massacre held on April 2016, Rizieq claimed that he does not oppose any notions of reconciliation. "What we want is the reconciliation that has been going on naturally over the years, no need for a new format [of reconciliation]," Rizieq said.
Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Kivlan Zein, who also visited Luhut’s office on Friday, June 3, 2016, said that the government will assimilate the recommendations from the 1965 Massacre symposium and the anti-communism symposium. "The government accepts all of the recommendations made in the [anti-communism] symposium," Kivlan said.
YOHANES PASKALIS