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View all search resultsPeople who are annoyed by the protest often intelligibly discuss complicated democracy-related concepts on social media but fail to back these up with a vigorous movement on the ground.The same people may also be satisfied with intellectual seminars or television commentaries but are unable to convert sophisticated discussions into a robust movement. In short, they hate the rising fundamentalism sufficiently but are too incompetent to channel this hatred into a systematic counterpoise.
A group of people reported House of Representatives deputy speaker Fahri Hamzah to the National Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) on Wednesday for allegedly lodging attacks at the government during his speech at a large-scale rally on Nov.4.
President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo should have been on a state visit to Australia this week, but instead spent the past two days visiting the country’s armed forces and major Islamic organizations in a bid to maintain stability in the country amid public outrage involving blasphemy allegations made against the Jakarta governor.
The National Police’s Criminal Investigation Department (Bareskrim) is pursuing the “political actors” behind a massive rally on Nov. 4 by several Islamic organizations, during which they demanded that charges be brought against non-active Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama’s alleged blasphemy.
The House of Representatives’ Commission III, which oversees legal and security affairs, is set to open an investigation into violence at the Nov.4 protest demonstration to uncover whether provocateurs incited a riot after the official end of the rally.
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