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The Islam Defenders Front (FPI), a hard-liner group that has been under the spotlight recently as its violent image has met resistance from other community groups, has committed to changing its ways.

The group’s leader Rizieq Shihab said during his visit to the Religious Affairs Ministry on Friday that FPI would fight for justice and corruption eradication from now on.

“The incident at the Home Ministry and various others incidents are no longer the group’s hallmark. FPI has left that paradigm,” he said as quoted by Antara news agency.

FPI members were involved in vandalizing the Home Ministry office in Jakarta during its protest last month, prompting the ministry to issue its final warning before suspending the group.

As its grasp on public sympathy has begun to slip, various community groups have begun standing up to the FPI, including most notably a protest initiated by the Dayak ethnic group at Tjilik Riwut Airport last week to block FPI leaders’ arrival. Commenting on the rejection, Shihab said he came to the province to preach and reveal a corruption case in the province.

Your comments:

“Reveal a corruption case” is that even their job?

AJ Santosa
Surabaya

No, you do not need to use violence any longer as the government has already taken bold steps.

Suri Adnyana
Jakarta

A well-known English proverb says: “When the fox preaches, beware of your geese.”

Tami Koestomo
Bogor, West Java

It doesn’t work that way.

Joshua
Jakarta

How can it change abruptly? However, since Indonesia is a democratic country, we will wait and see.

If the FPI continues with violence as its hallmark, the government must dismiss and ban the organization. To fight corruption is the job of the KPK, not the FPI.

Widya Utama
Bergen

What a load of nonsense they want one thing and one thing only and they will continue to use violence as a tool for their own needs.

Joe
Jakarta

Who will believe it?

How can Rizieq deal with the culture of its members, who have used violence?

Mahendra Saputra
Jakarta