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Members of the hard-line Islam Defenders Front (FPI) '€œinaugurated'€ their choice for Jakarta governor, Fahrurozzi Ishaq, during their latest protest outside the Jakarta City Council (DPRD) building against the governorship of Basuki '€œAhok'€ Tjahaja Purnama.

Fahrurozzi was '€œsworn in'€ by the head of the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) and member of the Jakarta Saviors Presidium, Luthfi Hakim, who stated that Fahrurozzi, coordinator of the Jakarta Community Movement (GMJ), would begin his duties as Jakarta governor effective immediately.

'€œWith this, the entire presidium has decided that the governor of Jakarta is Fahrurrozi Ishaq,'€ Luthfi announced during the '€œceremony'€ in front of the council building on Monday as quoted by tempo.co.

Your comments:

These demonstrators are the Indonesian version of the Republican Party in America, who voted to repeal Obamacare 48 times just because they don'€™t want the first black president to leave a legacy.

Lasem Benny

I'€™m sorry that Pak Ahok does not agree with your narrow-minded religious bigotry.

HB Mccoy

I'€™m pleased he doesn'€™t agree with their narrow-minded religious
bigotry.

Peka Dede

Is anyone taking these people seriously?

It looks like they are just members of gangs, doing their best to prop up increasingly unpopular sections of the old elite.

Deedee S

What is the difference between this and Papua claiming to be its own state? They are basically forming their own government by doing this. How is this not treason?

Jbl. Nor

What? Isn'€™t it the other way around, Ahok declares FPI illegal? Oh man, I can'€™t stop laughing reading all these articles about the FPI and their self-proclaimed governor. What a way to start my day.

Chotto Matter

Alright Jakarta residents, you have to pay double local taxes now: one to Ahok'€™s administration, the other to the FPI administration.

They should read the law properly first before declaring Ahok illegal. The law says that the governor is inaugurated only by the president and in his/her absence, the vice president. I don'€™t see either of those two inaugurating this Fahrurozzi.

They should first inaugurate an FPI president of Indonesia, then he will inaugurate the governor. Good luck to your endeavors, FPI.

Ponders

I actually thought this was quite funny. Maybe they could build a cardboard '€œgovernor'€™s office'€ outside of City Hall '€” kind of like the Aboriginal embassy in Canberra, Australia.

It could become a tourist attraction. You could bring your own nasi bungkus (packaged rice meal) and have your picture taken feeding them.

Loro Blonyo

Does this not ultimately constitute an attack on Indonesia and its government? Sorry but last time I checked, the FPI and their radical friends constituted a miniscule but extremely loud and violent part of Jakarta and Indonesia.  

They have openly opposed Indonesian laws and are traitors to Indonesia '€” correct me if I am wrong.

Deddy K

This is clearly blatant discrimination. Any group that promotes disharmony and disorder among SARA (tribal affiliations, religion, race and societal groups) must be considered '€œterrorists'€ and banned.

Democracy tolerates political dissent and ideological differences but not lawlessness.

James Waworoendeng

We'€™ve all had enough of these people. When will the police ship them out to Nusakambangan?

Sudarshana Chakra

The first thing people here need to do is to learn how to be tolerant of others and get a better work ethic, albeit  most wouldn'€™t know what work was, even less any ethics that may be attached to it.

Bay V

Pak Jokowi, when will you say '€œenough is enough'€?

Robby Kaware

If it wasn'€™t so prejudiced, infantile and absurd I may possibly have had a laugh at this latest piece of lunacy but, as it is, I am hardly able to raise the effort to roll my eyes anymore. I think that the first act of '€œour new governor'€ should be ascertaining the collective IQ of the entire FPI membership.

Nevertheless I do however really look forward to the elucidation of our new '€œgovernor'€™s'€ programs later today and I remain optimistically enthusiastic that these proposed programs may totally surprise us all by being eminently feasible, realistic, attainable, workable, budget practicable, cost effective and of general overall benefit to all sectors and sections of Jakarta society.

Pak Ahok, please try not to lose too much sleep.

May Ling Fe