NUR WAHID ASKS MUSLIMS NOT TO BE PROVOKED BY INTER-FAITH CONFLICTS

Surabaya, June 9 (ANTARA) - Dr Hidayat Nur Wahid, a member of the Advisory Board of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS), asked Muslims in Indonesia not to give up to provocations which might lead to inter-faith conflicts. "The guilty must be punished. Those who are not involved should not be intimidated," he said on the sidelines of the party's 10th anniversary commemoration here on Sunday. Hidayat further said he personally disagreed to the use of violence as in the North Maluku gubernatorial election, the issue on fuel oil price hikes which resulted in violence and even in the celebration of Pancasila (state ideology)'s anniversary which also ended with in violence. "Now there are sweepings at offices and houses by some elements of certain organizations, the action is against the law. Hence the state should uphold the law to guarantee security for the people by the state," said Nur Wahid who is also Chairman of the People's Consultative Assembly (MPR). Any form of violence must be avoided, he stressed, adding that religious adherents should realize that religions in the world is not to create slander or to trigger provocations, but to spread love and bless. "Especially that some foreign agendas are behind the violent actions which slipped into the incident as a certain foreign embassy at a sudden comments on the incident," he said. "I think we need to suspect what is behind all these, and we do not know what democracy in Indonesia will be like in anarchy, and the difference between democracy and democrazy, and the supremacy of the law needs to be uphle," he noted. - end.