Banten, March 3 (ANTARA) - Vice presidential candidate Ma`ruf Amin has called on people to build the nation great in ways which are honest and without slander and hoaxes.

"We build the nation great in honest ways, no lies between us, no slander between us, no hoaxes between us," Amin said in a mass gathering here on Sunday.

Amin has called on people not to absorb information blindly with many hoaxes appears among the society.

"We should not believe in hoaxes, we should recheck every news we received," he said before thousand of Islamic school students, ulemas, and Banten residents.

Indonesia must stand upright and strong, it could not be dissolved and extinct, Amin said. "Indonesia is not a dinosaurs that can extinct like ancient animals. Indonesia was born through struggle. NKRI (the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia) is unnegotiable, salawat till we die, and repentance before we die," he continued.

He noted that anyone who try to destroy the nation would face Banten people.

Reporting by Rangga Pandu AJ, Suharto
Editing by Fardah Assegaf

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