TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The 212 rally alumni group has urged the police to immediately process the alleged blasphemy case by Sukmawati Soekarnoputri in the same fashion the police did to Ahok’s blasphemy case.
The group voiced their demands during their protest before the National Police Criminal Investigation Department [Bareskrim] office on Friday, April 6, 2018.
“Summon, process and put Sukmawati behind bars,” the group’s chairman, Slamet Ma’arif, said at Bareskrim office on Jl. Medan Merdeka Timur.
The protest was a response to Sukmawati’s poem titled Ibu Indonesia [Mother Indonesia] that she read at the 29th anniversary of Anne Avantie Work at the 2018 Indonesia Fashion Week, which they deemed to have insulted Islam.
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Slamet said the alleged blasphemy by Sukmawati Soekarnoputri was not a trivial case, thus he demanded Sukmawati go through the same legal process as ex-Jakarta governor Basuki “Ahok” Tjahaja Purnama’s.
“Personally, we forgive her, but the legal process must proceed,” he said.
Sukmawati has apologized for her poem after it stirred public controversies and was perceived by many as offending Islam.
“I apologize to all Muslims, especially to those who feel offended by and objected to the Ibu Indonesia poem,” Sukmawati said while wiping tears off her cheeks at Warung Daun Cikini on Friday.
SYAFIUL HADI
