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Naked woman in steamy WhatsApp chat is Firza Husein, police confirm
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Summoned: Firza Husein (left), a witness in an alleged pornography case involving Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shibab, attends a questioning at the Jakarta Police on Tuesday. (Antara/Galih Pradipta)
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he National Police have said that a face recognition analysis confirmed that the naked woman who appeared in sex chats allegedly involving Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab is Firza Husein.
Hery Cahyono, a face recognition expert from the police’s Indonesia Automatic Fingerprints Identification System (Inafis) division, said authorities used several methods, including biometrics, to check whether the woman who appeared in the sex chats was really Firza.
He said police compared pictures of the female activist when she was arrested over an alleged plot against the government on Feb. 4 with her suspected pictures in the WhatsApp conversation.
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Hery said the team also used a bio-finder method, during which they checked Firza’s naked pictures in the WhatsApp conversations and her pictures on her ID card and in the Home Ministry’s e-ID database.
“The automatic algorithm system shows that all those pictures match. The system would refuse to [report a match] if the pictures were from two different people,” Hery said as quoted by kompas.com on Tuesday.
Earlier this year police summoned Firza for questioning after screenshots of what appears to be steamy WhatsApp chats between Rizieq and Firza were uploaded to the internet.
Firza, who was a coordinator of the Solidaritas Sahabat Cendana foundation, which is connected to the family of former president Soeharto, was reportedly having a relationship with the married man, Rizieq Shihab.
"This case is fabricated and libelous,” Firza’s lawyer Azis Yanuar said. (hol/ebf)
