Lombok Barat, NU Online
Chairman of the lawmaking body of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) KH Ma'ruf Amin said that Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) were not institutions producing terrorists or bombing perpetrators.
"Pesantren is not institution producing terrorists and this must be corrected," said Ma'ruf on the sidelines of a meeting in Senggigi, Lombok Barat, on Tuesday (21/7).<>
Ma'ruf admitted that some of the bombing perpetrators in several regions in the country had ever studied in pesantren, saying the educational institutions had once again never teach santri (students studying in pesantren) ways of jihad by using violence or plotting bomb terror which may claim many lives.
"So actually there has been such a distorted understanding about Islamic teachings in which the bombing perpetrators consider that their act is (regarded as) jihad," Ma'ruf said.
He was of view the perpetrators regarding themselves as the religious defenders for using violence or plotting bomb terror for instance were actually provoked from outsiders rather than pesantren," he said.
Ma'ruf who is also chairman of the Fatwa Commission at the Indonesia Ulema Council said that he also strongly denounced the Friday's bomb blasts in Jakarta.
As reported by this news portal, two bomb attacks were launched on JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels, killing nine people and injuring 53 others.
Of the 53 injured victims, 16 were foreigners and 37 Indonesian citizens. Among the 16 injured foreigners, six came from the United States, two from the Netherlands, two from Canada, two from South Korea, one respectively from India, New Zealand and Norway.
Police have identified three dead victims of last Friday`s hotel bombings as being of Australian nationality.
"The names of the three Australians are Senger Craig Andrew, McEvoy Garth Rupert John and Verity Nathan John," deputy head of the National Police Headquarters` public relations division, Brigadier General Sulistio Ishak, said on Monday. (dar)
Chairman of the lawmaking body of the Central Board of Nahdlatul Ulama (PBNU) KH Ma'ruf Amin said that Islamic boarding schools (pesantren) were not institutions producing terrorists or bombing perpetrators.
"Pesantren is not institution producing terrorists and this must be corrected," said Ma'ruf on the sidelines of a meeting in Senggigi, Lombok Barat, on Tuesday (21/7).<>
Ma'ruf admitted that some of the bombing perpetrators in several regions in the country had ever studied in pesantren, saying the educational institutions had once again never teach santri (students studying in pesantren) ways of jihad by using violence or plotting bomb terror which may claim many lives.
"So actually there has been such a distorted understanding about Islamic teachings in which the bombing perpetrators consider that their act is (regarded as) jihad," Ma'ruf said.
He was of view the perpetrators regarding themselves as the religious defenders for using violence or plotting bomb terror for instance were actually provoked from outsiders rather than pesantren," he said.
Ma'ruf who is also chairman of the Fatwa Commission at the Indonesia Ulema Council said that he also strongly denounced the Friday's bomb blasts in Jakarta.
As reported by this news portal, two bomb attacks were launched on JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels, killing nine people and injuring 53 others.
Of the 53 injured victims, 16 were foreigners and 37 Indonesian citizens. Among the 16 injured foreigners, six came from the United States, two from the Netherlands, two from Canada, two from South Korea, one respectively from India, New Zealand and Norway.
Police have identified three dead victims of last Friday`s hotel bombings as being of Australian nationality.
"The names of the three Australians are Senger Craig Andrew, McEvoy Garth Rupert John and Verity Nathan John," deputy head of the National Police Headquarters` public relations division, Brigadier General Sulistio Ishak, said on Monday. (dar)
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