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Porn fugitive Rizieq Shihab returns to launch Indonesian ‘moral revolution’
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Porn fugitive Rizieq Shihab returns to launch Indonesian ‘moral revolution’
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More than three years after he fled Indonesia and a raft of criminal charges, including one of spreading pornographic images, Indonesia’s firebrand Islamist leader Rizieq Shihab has returned to a rapturous hero’s welcome to declare a “moral revolution” in the world’s most populist Muslim country.
On Tuesday thousands of white-clad supporters lined Jakarta’s airport freeway and crammed the international terminal with no care for COVID-19 rules to welcome the conservative cleric best known for leading the blasphemy campaign against Jakarta’s former ethnic-Chinese Christian governor Basuki Tjahaha “Ahok” Purnama that led to his jailing in 2017.
Rizieq, who continued to head the hardline Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) from exile, told supporters he had returned to “fight with the people” before meeting Jakarta governor Anies Baswedan, whose campaign to defeat Ahok was heavily dependent on Islamist support.
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At its peak, the anti-Ahok campaign that became known as the 212 movement, drew an estimated one million people to rallies in central Jakarta, shaking long-held assumptions of Indonesia as a pluralist country and unnerving moderate Muslim President Joko Widodo.
Within a year of Ahok’s election loss and jailing, police had filed what many supporters said was a trumped-up case against Rizieq for breaching pornography laws through message exchanges with a female supporter that included naked images later leaked and circulated online, and another case for insulting the state ideology, Pancasila. Rizieq chose to remain in exile even after those charges were dropped, fearing arrest on his return.
While the government has repeatedly insisted it was not blocking his homecoming, his arrival is unlikely to have been welcome news in the presidential palace.
It coincides with widespread discontent with Jokowi (as he is known) and his administration which just last month pushed through sprawling and flawed job-creation legislation that many fear will hurt poor workers, landless farmers and the environment. Ian Wilson, an Indonesia expert and Murdoch University lecturer in politics and strategic studies, said while the Jokowi administration had shown itself to be “more than willing to take draconian action against Islamists, Rizieq was now a lot more popular than a lot of people would like to admit”.
“There are a lot of people who are unhappy with this administration and the danger (for Jokowi) with the FPI is that if he is too aggressive towards Rizieq he will help to consolidate his power as a locus for opposition,” Dr Wilson said. “His administration will have to think very carefully about how they handle this political problem and not amplify Rizieq’s power by default, because in the past that’s been the pattern and it has only increased his popularity and authority.”
Rizieq, who was jailed in 2008 on charges of inciting violence, was already a figurehead for conservative Islam but his time in Saudi Arabia will only have increased his Islamic credibility and popularity.
“Rizeq has become a genuine religious leader to some people and has a significant amount of social and political capital that he can exercise in a whole range of ways,” Dr Wilson said.
Australian National University Indonesia expert Greg Fealy said the 212 movement had fragmented since its peak in late 2016 and early 2017, when millions of supporters coalesced behind the movement to oust the Jakarta governor and it remained to be seen whether Rizieq could find a unifying cause compelling enough to revive the momentum.
But his return had “put spirit back into that movement”.
“All these people rely on opportunities presenting themselves, like a blasphemy allegation against a despised Chinese Christian governor, to allow them to mobilise,” Professor Fealy said. “I think the authorities know that and will be wary not to give them any ammunition because they will fire it straight back at your forehead.”
There would also be anxiety among Indonesia’s religious minorities over the return of such a polarising figure who was openly anti-Shia and anti-Christian.
https://www.theaustralian.com.au/wor...37b8281ddca675
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