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PKS Says It Didn’t Seek Change to Red Cross Emblem
Ezra Sihite & Dessy Sagita | February 27, 2012

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DrDez
4:14pm Feb 28, 2012

no i didnt watch porn on my galaxy

DrDez
2:26pm Feb 28, 2012

victim mentality Kang.. Its so very prevalent in our society. Sadly because so many of us are victims, some of course far more than others.

pks are reaping what they have sown. when you run for office on gods ticket there is really only one way to go and thats down. No matter how much good they do they will always be judged by irrational and ridiculous statements such as this

Lets hope the next president bears in mind the 5% law -


Kangkung
1:34pm Feb 28, 2012

JPB can you explain how this become a black campaign against PKS ?

DrDez
12:05pm Feb 28, 2012

phrase of the day Ste :) :)

people voting for pks is like chicken voting for colonel sanders


enakajah
12:05pm Feb 28, 2012

PKS want to make the Red Cross the only humanitarian body in the country. What an utterly preposterous statement. This would then cut out the UN,IOM, USAID, DFiD, AUSAID, EU, CIDA, SIDA, SDC, FAO, WFP, CARE, Save the Children and all the rest........... Then of course the implementing partners. Then all the local Humanitarian organizations.

Yup Prosperous Justice Party..... Preposterous Justice Party more like.... Absolute bozo's. If they had a brain that worked in the whole organization they would be rolling it up and down the table to see if it could fly..... And these are Coalition partners to the government.


The Prosperous Justice Party has denied it pushed for a change to the Indonesian Red Cross’s emblem, saying the claim was part of a smear campaign against the party ahead of 2014 elections.

Fachri Hamzah, chairman of the party known as the PKS, said on Sunday that he was surprised to hear media reports that his party had demanded a change to the logo of the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI).

“We can’t just change it as we would have to amend a law on the PMI first. It means it should be done through the House of Representatives,” the PKS lawmaker said.

Fachri added that it was impossible for his party alone to change the logo.

“It’s not about whether we’ve ever proposed it. We just can’t do it. That is just a black campaign against us,” he said.

PKS secretary general Abdul Hakim also denied that his party wanted the logo replaced.

“What the PKS proposed was that we should make the PMI the only official humanitarian body in Indonesia,” he said.

Last year, reports circulated that a PKS member proposed that the PMI change its emblem, saying it had been inspired by the Christian cross.

The PKS member, who would not reveal his name, said that the logo was against Islam.

When the news broke, it drew widespread criticism.

An official at Red Cross headquarters, Muhammad Muas, said on Saturday that it had received a request from the PKS to change its logo.

He said that the organization refused because the logo was agreed upon at the Geneva Convention in 1949.

Muas said that PKS’s demand for a logo change was baseless.

“This logo has nothing to do with any religion. It’s neutral,” he said. “Besides, Indonesia is not a faith-based country and not a secular one. We uphold Pancasila [the Five Principles] as our ideology that supports our plurality.”

He added that the country’s founding fathers, Suharto and Muhammad Hatta, had agreed on the emblem.