REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, BANDUNG -- Vice presidential candidate Ma'ruf Amin invited kiai (Islamic teachers) and ulemas (clerics) to maintain the national unity and integrity of the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia from various challenges and threats. He stated that before the clerics and scholars of Bandung Raya in a gathering held at the Riyadhul Huda Islamic Boarding School, in Ngamprah District, West Bandung District on Sunday.

"Indonesia has often faced challenges and efforts to replace the state ideology Pancasila despite the fact that it has actually been proven to unite the nation within the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia," said Ma'ruf.

Ma'ruf said there has been an ideological war, even though the founders of the nation have agreed that the ideology of the Indonesian state is Pancasila.

"This has become the agreement of all the founders of the nation, so if anyone wants to change the ideology but not according to the agreement, it will be rejected," he said.