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Remaja LDII Bandung Adakan Baksos Ramadhan
Selama Bulan Ramadan 1429 H/2008, Ikatan Remaja (Irma) Lembaga Dakwah Islam Indonesia (LDII) Kec. Arcamanik, Mandala Jati, dan Antapani mengadakan berbagai kegiatan sosial seperti buka bersama dengan anak-anak yatim. Irma LDII juga menyediakan makanan berbuka bagi kaum duafa, dan makan buka dan sahur untuk polisi yang sedang bertugas serta membuka posko mudik di Terminal Cicaheum dari H-5 sampai H+5. (A-71)*** (sumber:http://newspaper.pikiran-rakyat.co.id)
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Posko Mudik Lebaran LDII Banten
Sebagai bentuk rasa simpatik terhadap para pemudik lebaran, DPD LDII Provinsi Banten membentuk Posko Mudik Lebaran 1429 H/2008 M, untuk tahun ini DPD LDII Provinsi Banten bekerjasama dengan SENKOM Mitra Polri Provinsi Banten, ada nya kerjasama ini dapat memaksimalkan layanan kepada para pemudik, karena posko ini dilengkapi dengan sarana komunikasi radio.
Lokasi posko ini berada di depan Terminal terpadu pelabuhan Merak yang baru. Posko ini akan beroperasi mulai H-3 hingga H+2, posko ini selain dilengkapi sarana telekomunikasi radio milik SENKOM Mitra Polri Provinsi Banten juga dilengkapi tempat istirahat, mushola, dan takjil sederhana. Selain itu anggota SENKOM Mitra Polri juga turut membantu pihak keamanan mengatasi kemacetan yang terjadi di pelabuhan merak.
“Pembentukan posko ini sebagai bentuk kepedulian LDII terhadap masyarakat terutama para pemudik lebaran yang melalui pelabuhan Merak, selain itu posko ini termasuk dari rangkai 70 posko yang didirikan oleh LDII dari mulai Lampung sampai dengan Bali” Ujar Bapak Budi Hartono Ketua DPD LDII Provinsi Banten disela-sela persiapan posko. “Diharapkan posko ini dapat membantu para pemudik untuk menghilangkan kelelahan atau untuk sholat” Tambah Bapak Sumarno Ketua SENKOM Mitra Polri Provinsi Banten. (AB) (Sumber:http://ldiibanten.blogspot.com/)
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NU, LDII agree to fight against misleading teachings
Kediri, E Java (ANTARA) – The executive boards of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and the Indonesian Islamic Propogation Institute (LDII) agreed to fight against misleading teachings in Indonesia.
“We must fight against the misleading teachinggs as they have created conflicts among Muslims,” NU`s Associate Chairman KH Said Aqiel Siradj said at a post-fasting get-together at LDII`s boarding school here on Sunday.
He further said the teachings developed by Qiyadah Islamiyah on the emergence of a new prohpet for Muslims besides Prophet Muhammad had triggered conflicts among Muslims.
“If it is only ikhtilaf (differences in opinion) like those on the dates of Muslim holidays, it doesn`t matter but if it has dealt with a question on the prophet, it has concerned `syariah`, a matter of Islamic law,” he said.
Meanwhile, LDII General Chairman KH Abdullah Syam shared the same opinion with Said Aqiel Siradj. “Thus, the government and MUI (the Indonesian Ulemas Council) must take stern measures against Qiyadah Islamiyah,” he said.
Both Siradj and Syam agreed that the government must soon eliminate misleading teachings including those developed by Qiyadah Islamiyah but with prior approaches and enlightenment.
“If approaches and enlightenment fail, there is no other way but disbanding them by force,” Siradj said. The myriad of new teachings in Islam, Siradj said, was part of the euphoria in the era of freedom making people easy to create new teachings.
Siradj said a number of Islamic organizations in Indonesia like LDII, NU (the largest in the country) and Muhammadiyah (the second largest) were demanded to play strategic roles in fighting against misleading teachings.
Syam opined that the myriad of misleading teachings in Indonesia was insparable from globalization influences of western countries that wished to disunit Muslims in the country. Siradj and Syam also agreed that such misleading teachings only followed a trend which temporarily developed in certain places.(*) (http://www.antara.co.id)
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LDII battling to avoid the heretic label
The Council of Muslim Clerics, (Majelis Ulama Indonesia (MUI)), has in the past viewed some practises of the LDII, the Indonesian Islamic Propagation League, a hardline group in the past linked to the Indonesian Islamic State movement, (Negara Islam Indonesia (NII)), as being “exclusivist” and therefore unacceptable.
The MUI’s main objections to LDII concern the latter’s worship or prayer routine, and its attitude to other Muslims. For a person to join LDII prayer services he must first register with the LDII, and once prayers have begun no one may leave the room, it was said. The LDII was also accused of teaching that other, non-LDII, Muslims were not quite the real thing.
LDII chief Soehartono Rijadi now says however that the membership and prayer rules are no longer “relevant” and at their upcoming national congress the governing council will agree to change such policies to put their worship practices more in line with other groups in the country like Nadhatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah.
Soehartono hopes that this will enable the LDII to lose the deviant stigma it has recently had, and show that it is not exclusive. He also said that he hopes the MUI will clarify the status of LDII so as to prevent any unpleasantness from the easily excitable masses, as in the case of Jamaah Ahmadiyah in 2005 and 2006.
A day later Maruf Amin of the MUI said the matter of the LDII’s deviancy or otherwise was still being discussed. On the same day Abdullah Syam of the LDII invited people to come to LDII mosques and see that they were not closed to outsiders, and that the teachings did not insult others. (http://www.indonesiamatters.com)
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Islamic oganization LDII condemns bomb atAttack on Pakistan hotel
The Indonesian Islamic Propagation Institute (LDII) on Sunday condemned the suspected suicide car bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad that killed more than 40 people on Saturday.
“Not only non-Muslims but also Muslims in the country fell victim to the bomb attack. This is fasting month. The perpetrators of the bomb attack must respect it and refrain from committing a crime that claims the lives of other people. The bomb attack is certainly not the act of a Muslim,” LDII Chairman Prasetyo Sunaryo said.
Press reports said at least 43 people were killed and about 250 others injured in the bomb attack. A number of buildings near the scene also caught fire after the blast. The blast came a few hours after Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari delivered his first speech before lawmakers at the parliament building located hundreds of meters from the scene.
A number of Islamic mass organizations in Indonesia alleged that foreign parties had tried to disrupt harmony among adherents of different faiths, particularly between Muslims and non-Muslims in the world.
“We, Muslims, must always keep watch for any attempt by foreign parties who try to disrupt harmony among adherents of different faiths. That is why we call on religious adherents in Indonesia to be united so we cannot easily be pitted one against the other,” he said. (*) (www.antara.co.id)
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Exclusivity is not our doctrine: LDII
Leaders of the Indonesian Institute of Islamic Propagation (LDII) said that exclusivity was not part of their doctrine as suggested by a table published in The Jakarta Post on Thursday.
Such a perception would likely stem, among other things, from behavior displayed by organization members “whose understanding of the teachings has not matured,” one of the leaders said when visiting the Post on Friday, along with other board members.
“It is such members who we are educating,” said Aceng Karimulloh, a deputy LDII Jakarta branch leader and among the ulema from the organization. LDII chairman Teddy Suratmaji, an engineer, said such a misperception could have resulted from the “stigma” contributed by members of Islam Jamaah, an exclusivist and hard-line movement well known in the late 1970s, which later developed into the LDII. Islam Jamaah was closely scrutinized by the government following reports that its followers considered non-members as infidel or kafir, even though they were from the same family.
Nowadays, the LDII organization, which is legal, “has no connection” with Islam Jamaah, according to its official handbook. Information on LDII can also be viewed at www.ldii.or.id. The handbook addresses all “frequently asked questions” related to perceptions of Islam Jamaah and LDII.
Teddy displayed pictures of LDII’s activities in their bimonthly magazine, Nuansa Persada, which depicted its interaction with various Islamic groups, “which could not be possible if we were exclusivist,” Teddy said, denying that they did not pray with non-members.
Nor it was true that each member must pay 10 percent of their income to the imam, they said. Perceptions that LDII members consider non-members as
filth (najis) was also denied. “In the 1970s, it was commonly accepted that people of different sexes who were not muhrim (directly related) could not touch each other,” board member R. Sabaruddin said, “so maybe people got the idea that non-members were considered najis. But now this practice is “common” among many Muslims in the country.
The logo of LDII, which claims to be independent, clearly bears the banyan tree, symbol of former president Soeharto’s political vehicle Golkar, which sought all potential avenues to increase its control and influence. They said that they had intended to change the logo, but faced resistance from older members. (http://www.thejakartapost.com)
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Islam tak Mengajarkan Kekerasan
Benturan peradaban Barat dan Timur bisa menciptakan energi positif. Saling tahu dan saling belajar. Negatifnya, malah menciptakan sentimen agama.
Di Indonesia benturan peradaban berbuah manis sekaligus getir. Ketika bangsa Indonesia mengejar ketertinggalan teknologi, justru muncul gerakan anti Barat. Anehnya, bila diperhatikan, gerakan itu justru memberikan stigma negatif dalam relasi agama-agama. ”Realitasnya, banyak tindakan yang bisa diidentifikasi sebagai gerakan anti-Barat yang kenyataannya adalah antiagama lain,” kata Prof Dr Nur Syam MSi, Sosiolog IAIN Sunan Ampel, Surabaya.
Akhir-akhir ini, juga terdapat perkembangan menarik dari kehidupan sosial, politik, dan agama pada masyarakat Indonesia. Dulu, masyarakat ini dikenal dengan budayanya yang adiluhung dan mengedepankan kerukunan, harmoni, dan selamat. Inti filsafat hidup tersebut kurang terlihat dalam praktik kehidupan masyarakat. Banyak konflik horizontal yang terjadi di mana-mana. Konflik antarsuku, desa, politik, dan agama terjadi di banyak wilayah.
Realitas empiris tersebut membenarkan berbagai survei yang mengeksplorasi tentang kecenderungan kekerasan di negeri ini. Berdasar survei bahwa 61,4 persen setuju untuk memerangi orang nonmuslim, 49 persen setuju membela perang dengan nonmuslim, 47 persen setuju pelarangan Ahmadiyah, 20 persen setuju dengan bom Bali, dan 18 persen setuju perusakan gereja.
Ketika Anda membaca data itu, terdapat pertanyaan besar, benarkah tabiat masyarakat Indonesia yang sarat kelemahlembutan, kesopanan, dan penghargaan kepada yang lain sudah berubah sedemikian drastis?
Betapa besar angka 61,4 pesen untuk menyetujui memerangi orang nonmuslim dan betapa mengagetkan angka 20 persen yang menyetujui bom Bali dan 18 persen setuju perusakan gereja. “Marilah angka-angka itu kita baca dengan hati nurani. Sebab, agama berurusan dengan hati nurani. Ketika mau memutuskan sesuatu, yang paling urgen adalah bertanya kepada hati nurani. Melalui hati nurani, sekurang-kurangnya akan dapat dinyatakan bahwa merusak, menghancurkan, dan membunuh bukanlah tabiat ajaran agama mana pun,” Kata Nur Syam. Bahkan, menurutnya, Nabi Muhammad SAW selalu mewanti-wanti agar dalam peperangan sekalipun, jangan membunuh perempuan, anak-anak, orang-orang yang lemah, merusak tempat tinggal, dan tempat ibadah.
Pemeluk agama apa pun menginginkan kedamaian, bukan konflik. Kedamaian adalah inti agama. Islam juga bermakna kedamaian. Karena itu, ketika seseorang beragama tetapi di dalam hatinya terdapat kecenderungan untuk melakukan kekerasan, dia telah terjauhkan dari pesan agama untuk memakmurkan kemanusiaan. Teologi agama apa pun pasti membenarkan agamanya sendiri. Namun, jangan dilupakan bahwa manusia hidup dengan manusia lain yang memiliki pilihan-pilihan keyakinan di dalam kehidupannya. Maka, memberikan tempat lain untuk hidup adalah sebuah kewajiban. Ada sebuah kesepakatan pro-eksistensi, bukan hanya co-eksistensi.
Pada akhir-akhir ini, banyak tindakan untuk merusak, menghancurkan, dan membumihanguskan apa saja yang dianggap berlainan. Masdar Farid Mas’udi, pengamat sosial, berpendapat agar bangsa Indonesia menghentikan berbagai macam kekerasan atas nama ”kesesatan” dan ”pengafiran”. Tindakan seperti itu justru akan menghasilkan pandangan buruk yang tidak menguntungkan Islam sebagai agama yang mengusung jargon rahmatan lil’alamin. Jadi, meski kehidupan ini terasa menyesakkan, tetap masih ada ruang untuk saling berbagi. (Sumber: http://www.nuansaonline.net/)
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