Dozens of people grouped under a group known as Kendal Community Solidarity for the victims of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) violence, staged a mass rally on Tuesday demanding the FPI to disband, as they deemed the Islamic hard-line group to have acted arrogantly as vigilantes
ozensof people grouped under a group known as Kendal Community Solidarity for thevictims of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) violence, staged a mass rallyon Tuesday demanding the FPI to disband, as they deemed the Islamic hard-line group tohave acted arrogantly as vigilantes.
The groupasked the police to arrest FPI Central Java branch representative Sihabudinand bring him to trial for committing a series of violent acts.
Rallycoordinator Erwin Pasule then cited the latest clash between the FPI andSukorejo residents and said the FPI's charge that the clash had been orchestratedby local hoodlums was untrue.
'Thosewho were involved in the clash were local residents who had had enoughof the FPI's violence,' he said as quoted by kompas.com.(fan/dic)
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