PEOPLE WHO ARE WRONG BEGGING?

Fatwa issued unlawful begging Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) Sumenep, Madura, East Java, not contradicted by the MUI center. It is precisely because the appeal is approved to not approve of begging activity has been given since a few years ago. (Detik.Com. 22/08/09)

Reading this information we may feel happy because there is no longer busy preparing some money to the beggars. Try and imagine how difficult it is when on the road when the red street lights you have to spend money from the pocket or the wallet of course it was something very unpleasant. Or maybe when you are with your family is enjoying a romantic dinner at your favorite restaurant suddenly there was a beggar dressed in filthy body odor mixed with the stinging over you so that you spend a few bills or coin from his pocket and then you eat by hand. Surely a perfect romantic atmosphere will turn into anger.

A small incident like this would become one of the reasons for unlawful issuance of fatwas on various regions in Java. Although not all areas of this board to apply the MUI fatwa does not forbid Center. Hopefully can be applied in all regions in Indonesia. In Indonesia, especially big cities a lot of beggars around in various public places. Apart from disturbing sights and beauty of the city. The beggar can humiliate the dignity of the Indonesian nation in the eyes of the international world. Degree that we previously clothing such as corruption, poverty, and even human rights violations (Human Rights) to accelerate the process of thinking of this nation's leaders not to add the title of ridiculous in the eyes of the world.

Beggars or people who beg, let us look different from the two sides and two sides of this very influence directly. First people beg because they do not have a job that does not have the income to finance his life. Both men begging for the government's inability to create new jobs to absorb labor.

Enabling the fatwa haram is correct but more precise if we look at the two factors were mainly two factors from the government side is responsible for employment creation in Indonesia. Because the most powerful force in the development and empowerment of Indonesian society is economically not how it works beggar or create jobs but how the government's attention to growth and investment in foreign countries to open for big jobs. (Author: Taufiq T. Permata)