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View all search resultsGovt cracks down hard on FPI
The government has decided to ban controversial hardline group the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) and its activities, saying that it has no legal grounds to operate as a civil organization and that its activities often violated the law and caused public disorder.
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he government has decided to ban the activities of the controversial hardline group the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), as well as the use of its symbols and attributes, saying that the group has no legal grounds to operate as a civil organization and its activities often violate the law and lead to public disorder.
On Wednesday, a joint ministerial decree (SKB) was issued by the home, law and human rights, and communications and information ministers, the Attorney General, the National Police chief and the head of the National Counterterrorism Agency (BNPT).
“The government bans FPI activities and will stop any events organized by the FPI because it no longer has legal grounds either as a mass organization or as any other kind of organization,” Coordinating Political, Law and Security Affairs Minister Mahfud MD said in a televised statement on Wednesday.
He was referring to a June 20, 2019 deadline that the FPI failed to meet to extend its organizational registration permit (SKT) with the Home Ministry. "[Since then] the FPI, by law, has no longer been a mass organization,” Mahfud said.
“But institutionally, the FPI continued to hold activities that disturbed public order and security and was involved in activities that were in violation of the law such as violence, sweeping [illegal raids], incitement and other matters.”
The decision was the latest crack down on the organization, following the killing of six FPI members on a toll road near Jakarta and the subsequent arrest of FPI leader Rizieq Shihab.
The police argued that the killings was done in self-defense because the FPI members attacked them first.
