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Police wrote ‘Fitsa Hats’, not me: FPI leader
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A sign belonging to the US pizza restaurant franchise, Pizza Hut. During Ahok's latest hearing on Tuesday, it was revealed that the police's investigation report recorded Islam Defenders Front (FPI) Jakarta branch secretary Novel Chaidir Hasan Bamukmin as a former employee of "Fitsa Hats", not Pizza Hut (Shutterstock/Ken Wolter)
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slam Defenders Front (FPI) Jakarta chapter secretary Novel Bamukmin has acknowledged that he once worked at a Pizza Hut restaurant and claimed it was the police that wrote “Fitsa Hats” in Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama’s blasphemy case dossier.
“His [Ahok] lawyers do not know. It was the police who wrote it. Obviously the dossier didn’t write itself,” Novel told kompas.com on Wednesday.
Novel was among five witnesses, who earlier reported Ahok to the police for alleged blasphemy, who testified at the North Jakarta District Court on Tuesday.
(Read also: Ahok's lawyers criticize witness' background, noting him as Agus supporter)
Ahok said on Tuesday evening that Novel had likely changed the name of the restaurant because he was ashamed to have worked in a company owned by an “infidel” from 1992 to 1995.
"Yes, I think probably he was ashamed because he is of the opinion that it is forbidden to be led by an infidel, [someone of] different faith,” Ahok said.
The FPI led several massive rallies in Jakarta last year, which were joined by hundreds of thousands of people, against Ahok, a Christian of Chinese descent.
“I’m not ashamed. If I was ashamed, I wouldn’t have mentioned the job,” Novel said, adding that the “Fitsa Hats” part that was read during the hearing was missing when he rechecked the dossier.
“I will again report Ahok to the police for accusing me of manipulating [the dossier] under the belief that I am ashamed of having worked at an American company,” he added. (jun)
