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Ahok unfazed by 'Fitsa Hats' police report

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Thu, January 5, 2017

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Ahok unfazed by 'Fitsa Hats' police report Staying firm -- Singer Oppie Andaresta (center, with guitar) visits Rumah Lembang, Menteng, Central Jakarta, to declare her support for Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama on Thursday. (JP/Callistasia Anggun Wijaya)

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akarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama has said he is not surprised by the Jakarta Islam Defenders Front (FPI) secretary-general Novel Bamukmin’s move to report him to the police for alleged defamation on Thursday in relation to an increasingly popular meme called “Fitsa Hats”.

“It’s no shock to learn that he reported me to the police over this matter," Ahok said at his campaign headquarters on Jl. Lembang, Menteng, Central Jakarta, on Thursday. 

The new terminology, “Fitsa Hats”, was from comments Ahok made during a press conference after his fourth blasphemy hearing on Tuesday evening.

During the press conference, Ahok said, Novel had stated in his investigation document that he was a former employee of “Fitsa Hats", instead of Pizza Hut. Ahok quipped that the misspelling was probably intentional in an attempt to cover up the name of the restaurant as Novel was ashamed to have worked for a company owned by “infidels”.

(Read also: Police wrote ‘Fitsa Hats’, not me: FPI leader)

Novel is one of the witnesses who reported Ahok to the police for alleged blasphemy in relation to a speech he made in Thousand Islands on Sept.27. Novel and three other witnesses testified in Ahok’s fourth hearing at the North Jakarta District Court on Tuesday.

Firing back at Ahok’s statement, Novel said it was police officers who typed Fitsa Hats in his interrogation document, not him.

“I will again report Ahok to the police for accusing me of manipulating [the report] under the belief that I am ashamed of having worked at an American company,” he said on Wednesday.  

Novel said that with assistance from lawyer group Advokat Cinta Tanah Air (ACTA), he had reported Ahok to the police nine times regarding cases involving blasphemy. (ebf)

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