REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, SUKABUMI -- Ustaz Bachtiar Nasir explained suspects arrested by the police in different cities for spreading hoax are not the real Muslim Cyber Army (MCA). He made the statement in the sidelines of grand sermon for unity held by Young Islamic Leader (YI-Lead) and Sukabumi Muslims organizations alliance at Sukabumi grand mosque, West Java.
"I read on one mass media that the perpetrator spread hoax on behalf MCA. They are not MCA," the Secretary General of Intellectual Assembly of Young Ulama Indonesia (MIUMI) said on Sunday (March 4).
Ustaz Bachtiar suspected there were parties who used the incident as an effort to divide the people. Nevertheless, he has not hear any information from the police after the tracing proved that arrested suspects were not MCA. "But, I assessed the police have been objective and professional in handling the case," he said.
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According to ustaz Bachtiar, from the very beginning, MCA has no chairperson nor organization. Every Muslim can be a Muslim cyber army, including mothers who wear daster (house dress) at home.
"Those moms could be more fiercely than young men because they type their opinion with feeling," he said.
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On the other hand, ustaz Bachtiar called on the Muslims to stay away from hoax in the political year. He acknowledged there were many fake news in the social media.
"Everyday, there were twisted news on Islam and its movement that looked like a truth story, but it was not," he said.
Therefore, ustaz Bachtiar asked the people to seek for clarification (tabayun) and not easily spread information, especially when they do not understand the subject. He advised the people to be careful in spreading information related to one's good name, organization and state symbol.
Earlier, Coordinating minister for political, security, and legal affairs Wiranto said that the Family Muslim Cyber Army (MCA) used the momentum to the run-up of regional elections in 2018 and general elections in 2019 to undermine the government. He said the group has disrupt the peace in the country.
He said election organisers have already prepared for the election of regional heads, legislative members, and president very well. "It is being disrupted so that the government is considered a failure, undermined, as if it acted arbitrarily. That is a crime. They are traitors," he said.
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