REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The General Chairman of the Muhammadiyah Center, Professor Haedar Nashir delivered a speech on the 79th Anniversary of the National Day (Anniversary) of the Republic of Indonesia (RI) broadcast on TVMu Channel on Friday (16/8/2024). In her speech piece, Haedar highlights secular, gambling and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender (LGBT)

Haedar said that the State of the Republic of Indonesia held high and recognized religion and religious ownership as defined in Article 29 of the 1945 Constitution. This means that the Indonesian state should not allow space and practice a secular, anti-religious, anti-god system of life.

“Indonesia is not a religious country, but religion lives in the totality of the soul of the nation and the constitution of Indonesia,” Haedar said in his speech on the 79th Anniversary of Indonesia on Friday (16/8/2024).

In his speech, Haedar quoted the statements of the First President of RI. According to Soekarno, not only the nation, but the country of Indonesia must be godly. The state must guarantee the fundamental rights of religion.

“Anything that goes against religion such as gambling, sexual freedom and abuse, LGBT, and various other acts of solidarity should not be allowed to grow in the Republic even in the name of human rights,” Haedar said.

He said that religious people are undoubtedly the disseminators of the values of truth, goodness, and sublime ethics in the life of nations and nations. Religious leaders and religious leaders are called to be the guardians of the highest values and the ultimate transcendence in the real world.

The Indonesian state also recognizes national and regional culture as the source of the sublime mosaic of Indonesian collective life. Indonesian education is attached to the spirit of Taqwa and noble morals based on religious values and upholds the values of culture, science, and unity in order to enlighten the life of the nation for the realization of the nation's civilization.

“Therefore, through the fundamental values of Pancasila, religion, and the noble culture of the nation, all citizens of the nation and its elites are guided by their right, good, decent, and noble lives. In the life of nations and states, high moral and ethical values live so that Indonesia is not misguided and misguided,” said the General Chairman of the Muhammadiyah Center Leadership.