“Cultural and religious Proximity also becomes an important factor for the local community to understand the meaning for a haj pilgrimage so that the film received appreciation from the people of Kuwait.”
Indonesian Ambassador to Kuwait Ferry Adamhar
“We cooperate because of seeing good relations between the two countries and the amount of the students who are interested in following the student exchange so that the cooperation be enhanced for the cultural sector through the establishment of the Indonesian Islamic Centre,” Indonesian Education Minister Muhammad Nuh told detiknews in his office, Jl Jenderal Sudirman, Jakarta, Friday (17/1/2014).
Afghan Minister of Higher Education Obaidullah Obeid
Indonesian Minister of Education Muhammad Nuh
REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — One of leaders of Indonesian Ulama Council (MUI), Cholil Ridwan with a number of public figures are seeking to revive mosque function as a basic of political study of Islamic community. It is because the declining of political awareness of Muslims in Indonesia.
K.H. A. Cholil Ridwan
Islamic political study in Jakarta is now centered at Al-Azhar Mosque, South Jakarta every Sunday. The establishment of Islamic political study in 2012 was driven by disappointment of Muslim political struggle, so that all political leaders wanted to give the rightness based on Quran and hadith.
Islamic political proselytizing is not to direct people or groups to choose one specific political party. However, they want to give political understanding about the importance of Muslim participation to choose the right leaders as directed by Allah (God) in Quran and hadith.
“We did not make any differences of schools, groups, political parties or organizations, but we want to unite Muslim political consciousness,” Ridwan added.
Ridwan plans to expand Islamic political proselytizing to various mosques in Indonesia in near future, such as in Bandung, West java. He hopes this proselytizing also reactivating the function of mosque as a vehicle for political education. — Reported by Amri Amrullah/Mutia Ramadhani, edited by Julkifli Marbun
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