Jakarta ● Sun, July 3, 2022
More needs to be done to promote tolerance and preserve the national ideology Pancasila, prominent Muslim thinkers have said, as the country prepares to face another potentially polarizing general election in 2024.
During a seminar hosted by the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on Wednesday, Muslim intellectual Azyumardi Azra said that while he remained optimistic that most Indonesians would firmly hold on to the national ideology, he also noted recent "challenges", particularly in what he saw as the weakening of certain Pancasila values.
"For the most part, aspects of Pancasila right now are just lip service. If we can compare the current situation to how it was practiced during the time of Buya Syafii, there's a big difference," Azyumardi said.
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