Camelia Pasandaran – President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday said that he would not let a ideology based on religion replace the current national ideology of Pancasila.

"To movements that force their ideologies, based on religion or other ideologies, as the head of the state and government, I have to strictly say that such a political will is against our will to build that nation with Pancasila as the foundation," Yudhoyono said during the Pancasila Day commemoration at the House of Representatives.

"It is not sustainable for our nation. If such a movement is against the law, we should not let it happen."

Yudhoyono's address came after the speech of former Indonesian president Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie at the same event. Habibie said that reformation and democratization would enliven Pancasila in the daily life of those living within the plural nation.

"The re-actualization of Pancasila finds its relevance amid strong radicalism, and the risk of religious-based fanaticism and violence recently," Habibie said.

"During the consolidation of democracy infrastructure, the intolerance and the tendency to use violence as a way to solve differences, especially in the name of religion, is counterproductive for this multicultural nation."

The phenomenon, Habibie said, has showed that the obsession to build civilized and ethical democracy, which uphold difference and a respect to diversity, was still far from the reality.

The plan to set different national ideology might have recently rose again with the reappearance of Indonesian Islamic State (NII) that had planned string of bomb attacks.

Yudhoyono reminded that since the establishment of the nation, the founding fathers have had fundamental consensus that though Indonesia is a country that respects religion, it is not religious-based nation.

"I have observed many unrest and fears over the phenomenon and the reality that in the era of democratization, reformation and globalization some groups might be attracted to push for other ideology," Yudhoyono said. "There is also fear that some might plan to relive the thought of a religious-based nation."