Syafiq Riza Hasan Basalamah (born 15 December 1977), is an Indonesian Salafi scholar, lecturer, and author from Jember.
[2] A graduate of the Islamic University of Madinah, he earned cum laude honors from undergraduate to doctoral degree.
[6] According to the Higher Education Database of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology (PDDikti Kemdikbudristek), Syafiq worked as an active permanent lecturer in the Ahwal Al-Syakhsiyah (family law) study program at the Imam Syafi'i Islamic Studies College [id] in Jember since 2016.
[5][7] In a clip from a sermon uploaded by Yufid.TV on YouTube in 2016, Syafiq urged people to pray for their leaders because it was meritorious and to avoid criticizing and disparaging them.
The video with the politicized title was used by supporters of the incumbent presidential candidate, Joko Widodo, to counter Prabowo Subianto.
[9] However, during Ramadhan 1442 Hijri or 2021, Kristia Budiyarto (Dede), an Independent Commissioner of Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia (Pelni) and a staunch supporter of Joko Widodo, canceled Syfiq's lecture.