Nearly a week after the fatal incident that killed six of his supporters, Islam Defenders Front (FPI) leader Rizieq Shihab voluntarily went to the Jakarta Police headquarters on Saturday to fulfill a police summons for questioning in a case in which he has been named a suspect for allegedly violating COVID-19 health protocols.
Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Cmr. Yusri Yunus said Rizieq had handed himself over to the police as they had not sent a summons to him on Saturday.
“He was afraid he would be arrested, so he came here. We did not summons him [today]. We warned that we would arrest him,” Yusri said as reported by
Jakarta Police chief Insp. Gen. Fadil Imran has questioned the public’s reactions to recent criminal acts and crowd gatherings amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which he says can claim lives.
His comment comes amid the brouhaha over the deaths of six Islam Defenders Front (FPI) members in a case related to health protocol violations.
He compared the situation to a hypothetical robbery and murder of a family, a case that he said would likely trigger public outrage.
“The public would be horrified by the [incident] and there would be a series of the news stories in the media. [The perpetrators] would be considered vicious,” he said at the Jakarta Police headquarters on Friday as reported by