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The Jakarta Police have named Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab and five other people suspects for holding crowd-pulling events in his house and at the group’s headquarters in Petamburan, Central Jakarta, in breach of COVID-19 health protocol last month.
The bodies of the six Islam Defenders Front (FPI) members who were killed on Monday in an alleged shootout with police were buried on Wednesday, while the group continues to call for transparency in uncovering what really happened during the fatal incident.
United Nations expert Clément Nyaletsossi Voule believes many governments in Southeast Asia see social movements as a threat to national security and development – and in some cases even a terrorist threat.
The National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) has formed a fact-finding team to investigate a clash between the Jakarta Police and the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) that occurred on Monday morning and resulted in the deaths of six men affiliated with the hardline group.
Six alleged sympathizers of Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab were shot dead by members of the Jakarta Police in a purported altercation at the Jagorawi toll road in the early hours of Monday.The incident resulted in divergent accounts issued by the police and FPI, raising questions about what actually transpired on Monday morning.
The Jakarta Police have shot dead six people thought to be supporters of Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab in response to a purported attack on police officers at the Jagorawi toll road in the early hours of Monday.
Flower boards expressing appreciation for the military, police and law enforcement agencies lined the perimeter of the Kodam Jaya headquarters in East Jakarta on Monday, but left critics unimpressed by the military's intervention in removing banners professing support for the FPI's Rizieq Shihab.
The Jakarta administration announced on Sunday that it would extend the transitional period of the large-scale social restrictions (PSBB) for another two weeks until Dec. 6 amid a recent surge of new COVID-19 cases and following a number mass gatherings that led to accusations of widespread violations of health protocols.
