Several days ago, I coincidently met Mr. Bagus Rumbogo (The Main Inspector of Bappenas) when I was about to go out for a lunch. Although the meeting was just about two or three minutes, but a little discussion seemed to be very fruitful and gave strong impression on the discussed topic.
Mr. Rumbogo told me a story regarding his previous meeting with some of high level officials of Nahdlatul Ulama in East Java Province. He was interested in the way how Nahdliyyin (a call name for those who are members of Nahdlatul Ulama) conveyed their views/thoughts in a discussion. They tend to express their ideas indirectly, and commonly use an easily understandable analogy. Even, the use of a kind of metaphoric joke is mostly preferred by this community because of its effectiveness in communication.
One of the interesting topic of the discussion is about how people tend to be moderate in the degree of haramness (Ind: keharaman) of money resulted from corruptive practices in comparation with the haramness of eating, say, a meat of pig. He then exemplified with the following analogy: moslem people will obviously and strongly reject if you offer them with a free lunch of ham (pig), but they are very possibly welcome if you offer them with a free lunch of beef, which is halal food, although it is really bought with money from illegal practices such as corruption, even if you told them so. Substantially, both lunches are really haram: the first is haram because of the substance of the lunch itself, while the second is haram because of its "history" which is gained from a haram practices, i.e. corruption.
In other cases, unclear explanation on the corruption has often resulted in a wrong perception also. This sometimes is as reflected in a joke that say: corruption is different from stealing, corruption is ok and stealing is haram. This joke might be intended to criticize how the authority has failed in explaining the word and its meaning of "Corruption". For ordinary people, maybe the best way to explain about the corruption is by similarizing it with stealing. Stealing is corruption, and corruption is stealing as well. Both words are interchangeable and with the same meaning. Never use a long and wordy sentence to explain what corruption is. Make it simple and straight forward.
Although the analogy above seems to look like a joke, but indeed it reminds us very shockingly, that sometimes we need to make an extreme comparation to make people well understand on the basic concept, i.e. on the "haramness" of money from corruptive pratices. What is the different between eating a pig meat and spending some corruptive-originated money?. By that way, people will easily be reminded that it is no different between eating halal food from corrupted money and eating haram food (like a pig) from halal money. Indeed, it's a good analogy that I will always use as a reference. Thanks pak Bagus Rumbogo. (Thohir Afandi, 15/11/2007)
Jakarta, 15/11/2007
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