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Article: PPP NOT TO ESTABLISH ISLAMIC STATE, PARTY FIGURE SAYS.
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- ANT - LKBN ANTARA (Indonesia)
- Article date:
- April 3, 2009
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Pamekasan, April 3 (ANTARA): A figure from the United Development Party (PPP), Maimun Zubair, said here on Friday that the party had no intention to establish an Islamic state although it was based on Islam. "For PPP, the present unitary state of Indonesia with its state ideology Pancasila and 1945 Constitution is final and need not be changed," he said. The leader of an Islamic boarding school in Serang said the idea of an Islamic state would only disrupt the existence of the unitary state of Indonesia, Pancasila and the 1945 constitution. He said by changing the unitary state into an Islamic state people first had to change the state ideology while Pancasila and the ...