On the workshop’s third day these religious experts made an important decision to demand that the Indonesian parliament (DPR RI) immediately legalize or pass the Corruption Court Bill before December 19, 2009, this date being the three year cut off since the original Constitutional Court’s ruling.

“The weak solidarity between the rich and the poor has split the Muslim community,” Yenny said.

Masdar believes that religious interpretation alone is not enough to resolve the problem. There must also be a comprehensive social approach.

The bahtsul masail concluded that one function of the government was to regulate life in the world, so that communities within it could live safely, securely, and peacefully.

Yenny believes what is needed is revitalization of the roles of kyai and pesantren as the people needed to return the pesantren to being a symbolic power which holds Islam as the liberator it truly is.

SBY’s indecisiveness has allowed the democratic process to be dominated by destructive elements. In this perspective, SBY’s presidency has been highly tolerant to what Appleby describes as religious illiteracy—a shallow and ignorant religious understanding which easily resorts to violence at times of sudden change or crisis.