"Suriah adalah negara sekuler-sosialis, multi etnis (Arab, Kurdi, Armenia, Turkman, dan lainnya), multi agama dan sekte (Muslim Sunni, Syi’ah, Kristen Katolik, Ortodox Syria, Protestan, Druze, dan Atheis)," ujar Susilo dalam rilis yang diterima Republika, Selasa (27/12).
Ia menjelaskan, sebelum konflik tahun 2011, Suriah termasuk dalam lima kategori negara-negara dengan tingkat kriminalitas terendah. Kebutuhan pokok masyarakat seperti listrik, air, dan roti disubsidi oleh pemerintah.
Pendidikan dan pelayanan kesehatan rumah sakit negeri juga disubsidi penuh oleh pemerintah. Suriah juga merupakan negara yang sangat concern terhadap problematika Palestina dan menjadikannya sebagai isu nasional.
Menurut Susilo, konflik di Suriah bukanlah konflik sektarian, melainkan konflik yang berkaitan erat dengan berbagai kepentingan politik regional dan global. Tentara Nasional Suriah merupakan tentara yang terdiri dari bebagai suku dan agama.
Secara geografis letak provinsi Aleppo sangat strategis dan merupakan kota terbesar kedua setelah ibu kota Damaskus yang terkena imbas konflik paling parah, sehingga diperebutkan oleh kelompok-kelompok yang terlibat konflik. Sekitar 90 persen dari penduduk Suriah adalah orang Arab.
Kelompok etnis lain yang paling besar adalah Kurdi (6 persen). Separuh penduduk tingal di perkotaan. Kota-kota utama dan termasuk tertua di dunia adalah Damaskus, Haleb (Aleppo), Homs, Latkia dan Hama. Sekitar 90 persen Muslim diantaranya mayoritas Sunni.
Penganut agama lain Kristen Ortodoks (Yunani, Armenia, Suriah) dan Yahudi. Agama, khususnya Islam adalah suatu kekuatan politik dan sosial di Suriah.
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Indonesian Students Association (PPI), Damascus, Syria asked all Indonesian people not to be easily provoked by the news that does not clear the source. Chairman of PPI Syria, Susilo said Priyadi religious life in Syria is quite moderate and tolerant."Syria is a secular state-socialist, multi-ethnic (Arab, Kurdish, Armenian, Turkman and others), multi religions and sects (Sunni, Shiite, Christian Catholic, Syrian Orthodox, Christian, Druze, and Atheism)," Susilo said in a release received by Reuters on Tuesday (27/12).
He explained that, before the conflict in 2011, Syria was included in the five categories of the countries with the lowest crime rate. Basic needs such as electricity, water, and bread is subsidized by the government.
Education and health services state hospitals also fully subsidized by the government. Syria is also a country that is very concerned about the problems of the Palestinians and make it a national issue.
According to Susilo, the conflict in Syria is not a sectarian conflict, but the conflict is closely related to the interests of regional and global politics. Syrian National Army is an army composed from various ethnicities and religions.
The geographic location is very strategic Aleppo province and the second largest city after the capital of Damascus were most severely affected by the conflict, so contested by groups involved in the conflict. About 90 percent of the Syrian population is Arab.
Other ethnic groups were greatest Kurdish (6 percent). Half of the urban population living in mobile. The main towns and including the oldest in the world is Damascus, Haleb (Aleppo), Homs, and Hama Latkia. About 90 percent of them the majority Sunni Muslims.
Other faiths Christian Orthodox (Greek, Armenian, Syrian) and Jews. Religion, especially Islam is a political and social forces in Syria.