MUHAMMADIYAH.ID, JAKARTA - General Secretary of the Central Board of Muhammadiyah Abdul Mu'ti regarded that Pancasila Ideology Bill (RUU HIP) contrasts with the vigor of nationality and alleviates a position of Pancasila.
“We recognize that two of principles of the draft bill making are protection and legal certainty. Thus, the deliberation on the bill must cease if it becomes controversial, divides people, and renders people to feel unsafe and unprotected,” declared Mu’ti on Monday (15/6).
“The Central Board of Muhammadiyah asserts that the deliberation on the RUU HIP is not urgent and should not proceed to be ratified as a law,” he emphasized.
According to Mu’ti, the position of Pancasila may not be shifted to be a certain law because Pancasila as an ideology has been final since 18 August 1945.
“The state ideology is a series of processes. Obviously mentioned on TAP MPR (the Temporary People’s Consultative Assembly Decree) and a number of laws, the series commenced from Bung Karno’s speech on 1 June 1945, remarks of national figures in a meeting of the Committee for the Investigation of Indonesian Independence (BPUPKI), the formulation of Pancasila on 22 June, Jakarta Charter, to the formulation of Pancasila on the preamble of the 1945 Constitution. If the ideology has already decided in accordance with the preamble of the 1945 Constitution, discussing other formulations is not necessary anymore,” conveyed Mu’ti.
Demerits of the Deliberation on the Pancasila Ideology Bill
Mu’ti contended that, first, the deliberation on the RUU HIP may lead to ideological polemics since the debates was over among the founding fathers of this nation and they made an agreement as mentioned on the preamble of the 1945 Constitution.
“Second, five principles of Pancasila are fundamental and essential norms so that, if the bill is ratified to be a low, it decreases the position of Pancasila as the state ideology. The position of Pancasila, then, is equal to other laws, whereas Pancasila places the highest position in our legal system followed by TAP MPR in the second place,” explained Mu’ti.
Next, Pancasila as the state ideolody has been firm because it has been regulated in many legislative products and none of other regulations are necessary to manage Pancasila,” stressed Mu’ti while informing that Muhammadiyah has established a team consisting of 15 experts to study the Pancasila Ideology Bill.
“The team is working on investigating a number of controversial points on the bill. Nevertheless, the crucial point is that Pancasila must be placed as the state ideology,” affirmed Mu’ti.