✓Photo: Elaf Al Mashaer and Ramada, two hotels standing on the wakaf land of Acehnese ulama, Habib Bugak Al-Asyi, near the Grand Mosque, Mecca.
The New Order government (Orba), once attempted and lobbied the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for Aceh's endowment property to be owned by the Government of Indonesia.
However, the effort was not successful, because Saudi Arabia adheres to the rules of fiqh and sharia is very strict and guided to the contents of the pledge of endowments.
Muhammad Nazar when delivering remarks on the event of Prophet Muhammad's mawlid in Ciledug Tangerang, Banten, Sunday (28/1/2018).
The New Order Government effort was revealed by the Senior Vice Governor of Aceh, Muhammad Nazar, addressing the plan of BPKH to manage the Acehnese wakaf price.
"In the past, the New Order Government has been asking for the same thing, but it did not work," said Muhammad Nazar, who served as Deputy Governor of Aceh for the period of 2007-2012.
When he was Vice Governor of Aceh, Mauhammad Nazar repeatedly made visits to Saudi Arabia, among others, to take care of Aceh's wakaf.
He made sure that in the pledge of the pledge of wakaf is not listed the name of Indonesia, because Indonesia was born in 1945.
"There is no nomenclature that shows Indonesia in the pledge of endowment because Indonesia itself was only recognized as an independent state by several other countries after the 1945 adulteration and recognized massively by the world after a peace agreement was held in a round table conference in the Netherlands in December 1949," said Muhammad Nazar.
According to Muhammad Nazar, if the original document exists and the recipient is clearly referred to to whom the Saudi Shariah Court will surely return it.
"As long as they can not be proven through original documents, they will remain under the responsibility of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for the time being," said Muhamamd Nazar, who now heads the SIRA Party. *)