NU condemns HTI for hanging Pagar Nusa banner on GBK stadium

Jakarta, NU Online
Hizbut Tahrir of Indonesia (HTI) is considered to have committed a fraudulent act for hanging banner of one of the NU autonomous bodies, Pagar Nusa, in the HTI Khilafah Conference 2013 in Jakarta, Sunday (2/6), as a sign of support for the establishment of the Khilafah state.<>

The banner hung on the Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) stadium contains the official logo of the NU's martial arts organization with Sundanese jargon "Cadu Mundur Pantang Mulang" (never retreat never come home). Underneath it is written clearly "Pagar Nusa Tanjungsari-Sumedang", and "Ready to uphold the establishment of Shariah and Khilafah".

Secretary of NU Branch Board of Sumedang, West Java, Aceng Muhyi, said he was shocked and concerned with such information.

"We do condemn this (fraudulent) act," he told NU Online by telephone on Friday (7/6, adding that he was disappointed because so far in Sumedang Pagar Nusa has only been at the district level.

Hizbut Tahrir is a political party whose ideology is Islam. Its objective is to resume the Islamic way of life by establishing an Islamic State that executes the systems of Islam and carries its call to the world.

Hizbut Tahrir has prepared a party culture that includes a host of Islamic rules about life’s matters. The party calls for Islam in its quality as an intellectual leadership from which emanates the systems that deals with all man’s problems, political, economic, cultural and social among others.

Reporting by Mahbib Khoiron; Editing by Sudarto Murtaufiq