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Police to question FPI leaders, GNPF-MUI chairman on treason case
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Staying defiant -- Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Habib Rizieq Shihab gives a press statement after his questioning at the Jakarta Police headquarters on Jan.23. (Antara/Reno Esnir)
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akarta Police have scheduled a questioning for Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab and general secretary Munarman, as well as the National Movement to Safeguard the Indonesian Ulema Council’s Fatwa (GNPF-MUI) chairman Bachtiar Nasir, on Wednesday.
Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Argo Yuwono said the three men would be questioned in relation to a meeting attended by treason suspect Sri Bintang Pamungkas and several others.
“Their [Rizieq, Munarman, and Nasir] statements are needed since they attended the meeting along with other people,” Argo said on Friday as reported by tribunnews.com.
He said police investigators would question them on who had been invited and what had been discussed during the meeting.
(Read also: Activist Sri Bintang Pamungkas detained over alleged treason)
Sri Bintang and several political activists were arrested on Dec. 2 last year in several locations in Jakarta, hours before a massive rally, organized by the FPI and GNPF-MUI was held at the Presidential Palace.
Hundreds of thousands people took part in the rally, demanding that the government legally process Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama for alleged blasphemy related to his statement on a Quranic verse during a visit to Thousand Islands regency in September.
Ahok, a Christian of Chinese descent, is now being tried at the North Jakarta District Court for the alleged blasphemy.(jun)
