MUHAMMADIYAH.OR.ID, JAKARTA – The Central Board of Muhammadiyah has expressed deep sorrow over the death of an Indonesian peacekeeper and soldier who fell in the line of duty while serving in a United Nations peacekeeping mission.
Haedar Nashir, President of Muhammadiyah, strongly condemned the violence surrounding the incident. The loss, he said, carries particular weight for the organization, as one of the fallen soldiers, Private Farizal Romadhon, was a Muhammadiyah member from Kulon Progo in the Special Region of Yogyakarta.
According to Haedar, the late soldier maintained a close connection to Muhammadiyah’s values. Notably, during Ramadan 1447 H, he actively promoted the concept of the Global Unified Hijri Calendar (Kalender Hijriah Global Tunggal/KHGT) through his personal social media account.
“In several of his Instagram posts, he helped popularize KHGT. This shows that, beyond his role as Indonesian peacekeeper, he was deeply connected to Muhammadiyah’s spirit,” Haedar said during an Eid gathering at Muhammadiyah University of Jakarta on Tuesday (31/3).
A Crisis Beyond Conflict
Despite ongoing wars and conflicts showing little sign of resolution, Haedar expressed hope that a path toward global peace would eventually emerge. However, he warned that the persistence of such violence reflects a deeper crisis within modern civilization.
“After events such as the Holocaust, humanity should never have allowed similar tragedies to occur again,” he said. “Yet they continue to happen.”
He argued that this recurrence signals a fundamental failure of modern civilization, particularly among advanced nations that, in theory, possess the capacity to prevent such atrocities.
“The grand ideals of 20th and 21st century civilization remain unfulfilled,” he attended, “until humanity can truly put an end to violence, genocide, and neo-colonialism.”
From Modern Deadlock to Global Catastrophe
Haedar further suggested that the current global landscape reflects not only the limitations of modernity but also the inadequacy of postmodern thought in addressing scale-large human suffering.
“Postmodern thinkers may construct new narratives to deconstruct early modern civilization,” he said. “But in reality, even postmodernism has failed to halt destruction and violence.”
Moreover, he warned that the escalation of conflicts worldwide points toward what he described as a “global catastrophe”, a condition in which international legal institutions lack the authority or effectiveness to stop widespread violence.
This reality, he noted, reveals a troubling shift in the global order. The world, he argued, is becoming increasingly unrestrained and volatile, echoing the classical notion of homo homini lupus–”man is a wolf to man.”
Bintang Adrian
