President again asks people to wage "jihad" against poverty, backwardness
NU Online · Sabtu, 14 Oktober 2006 | 11:46 WIB
Demak, NU Online
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono here Saturday (14/10) repeated his exhortation to the Indonesian people to wage `"Jihad" (holy war) against poverty, unemployment and backwardness so as to become a dignified member of the world community.
He said the main task of Indonesian Muslims was to overcome the three problems which were the main enemies of Muslims, the President said after performing evening prayers in a Demak mosque, Central Java, Friday evening.
As reported by the national news agency Antara, the President urged `ulema’ (Muslim scholars) to step up their role in advising Muslims and boosting efforts to make Islam a religion of compassion to all Indonesian people.
The head of state also asked businessmen to work hard to help improve the people’s economic conditions through improvement of the real sector, housing in particular.
Yudhoyono instructed all local administration authorities to develop food resilience particularly where basic foods such as rice, sugar, maize and meat were concerned, so that the regions would have enough supplies and not need to import those goods from other countries.
He said Demak was as a good example of how a region could become self-sufficient in food thanks to its successful agricultural development.
"Demak produces 330,000 tons of rice annually, while its demand is only 120,000 tons annually, so it has a rice production surplus," he said. (dar)
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