Accused of spreading heretical Islam
Jakarta, IDN Times – In 2025 the Indonesian Ahmadiyya Congregation (JAI) celebrates 100 years of presence in this country. The Islamic religious group, which often accuses of heresy, is now present in 34 provinces in Indonesia, has more than 400 branches and around 500 thousand members.
“It’s an officially registered member. Many are not or have not been registered, for example because they are still children,” said Maulana Mirajudin Sahid, Shd, in the talk session #RealTalkwithUniLubis which was broadcast on the IDN Times YouTube channel, Friday (21/7/2023). Mirajudin is Amir, the name for the JAI National Leader. He is a direct descendant of Kiai Haji Damiri, an Islamic religious leader from Cirebon, who in the 1930s declared himself a follower of the Ahmadiyya sect or baiat, and spread Ahmadiyah in West Java.
“At that time my grandparents lived in the Bogor area. Many of his students live in cities in West Java,” said Mirajudin. What is meant by grandparents or great-grandfathers here is the father of Mirajudin’s grandfather. As short as public memory, Ahmadiyah often gets acts of violence, or persecution from community groups who consider JAI to be a sect within Islam, and spread heretical teachings.
The series of persecution against JAI that has attracted much attention, for example, the Cikeusik Tragedy, in Pandeglang, Banten on Sunday, February 6 2011. A group of people calling themselves the Cikeusik Muslim Movement wanted to disband Ahmadiyah in that area. An estimated crowd of 1,500 people invaded the location of the Ahmadiyya Congregation in Umbulan Village, Cikeusik District. Throwing happened. The Ahmadiyya Congregation is against. Six people died, houses were damaged, cars were burned.
Next is the Monas event. Hundreds of members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) attacked a peaceful demonstration held by the National Alliance for Religious Freedom at Monas Square, Central Jakarta, in June 2008. They suspected that there was an Ahmadiyya congregation at the action. Persecution was also experienced in West Nusa Tenggara, Bogor, Bangka, Kendal, in Jakarta, and most recently in Sintang, West Kalimantan.
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