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Kendal residents rally for FPI disbandment

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

The Jakarta Post
Jakarta
Tue, July 23, 2013

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Kendal residents rally for FPI disbandment

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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.

'€œThosewho 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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