The families of six slain Islam Defenders Front (FPI) supporters have spoken up about their deceased family members to lawmakers following their deaths at the hands of the police in an alleged altercation on Monday amid the police s move to name the group s controversial leader a suspect of COVID-19 health protocol breach.
The families’ accounts are similar to the version of events provided by the group, which claimed the six members were not carrying weapons and were victims of “extrajudicial killing” by the police.
House of Representatives Commission III overseeing law and human rights affairs invited the family members to a hearing at the House compound on Thursday.
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 result of our investigation concludes that there are six suspects in this case. The first is MRS [Rizieq], who is charged under articles 160 and 216 of the Criminal Code,” Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Yusri Yunus said on Thursday as reported by
kompas.com.
Violations of Article 160 on the incitement of criminal acts can be punished with up to six years of imprisonment. Meanwhile Article 216 of the Criminal Code stipulates a prison sentence of up to four months and two weeks for those found guilty of obstructing law enforcement efforts.
The National Police have taken over an investigation into the fatal shooting of six members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) in an altercation between the group and Jakarta Police officers.
Jakarta Police spokesperson Sr. Comr. Yusri Yunus said the case had been taken over because the incident took place well beyond his office’s jurisdiction – on a section of the Jakarta-Cikampek toll road in Karawang, West Java.
“I’d like to say that the case has been taken over by the National Police because the
scene of the incident was in Karawang, which falls within the jurisdiction of the West Java Police,” Yusri said on Wednesday, as quoted by
The Islam Defenders Front (FPI) has recovered the bodies of six members who were recently killed during an alleged shootout with police, and returned the bodies to their families for burial. The group denies the police version of events and provided details that could point to ill intent among law enforcement.
FPI chairman Ahmad Shabri Lubis said in a statement on Thursday that the group recovered the bodies from the National Police Hospital in East Jakarta with the help of several people, including M. Romo Syafe’, Gerindra Party politician Fadli Zon and representatives from the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM).
JAKARTA (The Jakarta Post Jakarta/ANN): The Islam Defenders Front (FPI) has recovered the bodies of six members who were recently killed during an alleged shootout with police, and returned the bodies to their families for burial.