KAMMI wants Gus Dur to be impeached
KAMMI wants Gus Dur to be impeached
YOGYAKARTA (JP): The United Front of Indonesian Muslim
Students (KAMMI) ended its second national congress on Friday
with a recommendation that the People's Consultative Assembly
(MPR) hold a special session to ask for the President's
accountability.
The congress, which had its official closing ceremony late
Thursday night, also recommended that the national education
budget be raised.
Soon after the congress ended, the KAMMI activists took to the
streets, marching from the venue of the congress at Wisma LPP
Demangan to the Gadjah Mada roundabout, covering a distance of
two kilometers.
Waving banners and posters, the students also urged a quick
settlement of the sectarian clashes in Maluku.
"The rally is intended to socialize the result of the
congress," said KAMMI spokesman Nur Hidayanto.
KAMMI's reasoning for requesting the impeachment of President
Abdurrahman Wahid was that he had derailed the reform process,
they said.
"The vision of reform requires the establishment of a rational
democracy in the country. However, the way Gus Dur handles his
political rivals has been irrational. How then could he pioneer
the establishment of rational democracy?" Nur said.
The objectives of the reform movement, which were established
moments before President Soeharto was ousted in 1998, included
supremacy of law, regional autonomy, the establishment of
rational democracy, Soeharto's trial, eradication of corruption,
collusion and nepotistic practices and the elimination of the
Armed Forces' dual function.
None of the objectives has been accomplished by Gus Dur's
administration, Nur claimed.
The congress, attended by some 250 KAMMI members, elected Andi
Rahmat, a student of the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, as
the new chairman.
Rahmat, formerly a staff member of the Strategic Study
Division of KAMMI's central executive board, replaced Fitra Arsil
to chair the organization for the 2000-2002 term.
The next KAMMI congress is scheduled to be held in Lampung in
2002. (swa)