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Police to screen FPI leader's Pancasila defamation case

West Java police spokesman Sr. Comr. Yusri Yunus said that the police would hold a case expose of the alleged defamation against Pancasila” implicating Rizieq Shihab, the founder of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) on Friday. 

Callistasia Anggun Wijaya (The Jakarta Post)
Jakarta
Sun, January 15, 2017

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Police to screen FPI leader's Pancasila defamation case Protesters stage a rally in front of the West Java Police headquarters in Bandung, West Java, in relation to a defamation case implicating Islam Defenders Front head Rizieq Shihab. The protesters urged the police to arrest Riqieq for defaming the state ideology Pancasila and Sundanese culture in previous sermons. (Antara/Fahrul Jayadiputra)

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est Java Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Yusri Yunus said the police would screen a case implicating Rizieq Shihab, the founder of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), for alleged defamation of the Pancasila (state ideology) on Friday. 

"We will hold a case screening to see whether there is a criminal element. If we find there is, we will proceed with an investigation into the case," Yusri told The Jakarta Post via telephone on Friday. 

A case screening is a phase of a criminal investigation in which investigators decide whether evidence collected is solid enough for police to name someone a suspect in a case. 

Yusri added that on Thursday the police had quizzed Rizieq as a witness who had been reported by politician Sukmawati Soekarnoputri for allegedly insulting the Pancasila.

Sukmawati reported Rizieq to the police for a two-minute video of him talking about the difference between Sukarno’s version of Pancasila and the one written in the Jakarta Charter.

“In Sukarno’s Pancasila, faith in God is placed at the bottom, but in the Jakarta Charter’s Pancasila, faith in God is placed on the head. Which one is better? Sukarno’s or the Jakarta Charter's?” Rizieq said in the video.

Yusri added that the police's forensic laboratory center (Puslabfor) found that the footage of Rizieq commenting on the Pancasila was original, however, Rizieq claimed that his video had been edited. 

The police had questioned 10 people, including criminal law, language and information technology experts before interrogating Rizieq, Yusri said. (dmr)

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