Beer Share: FPI to Hold Larger Rally
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8 March 2019 23:51 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Head of Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) Jakarta branch Muchsin Alatas, threatened to hold a massive rally and deploy more people to the Jakarta Legislative Council (DPRD) building. He was aiming the threat to Jakarta DPRD speaker Prasetio Edi Marsudi related to the beer share issue.
Some 100 people staged a demonstration on Friday, March 8, 2019, urging Prasetio to immediately pass Anies Baswedan's gubernatorial regulation on letting go of Jakarta's beer share in PT Delta Djakarta.
"We will hold a massive rally as the previous rally against Ahok [Basuki Tjahaja Purnama] on the blasphemy case of Holy Quran," said Muchsin at the DPRD building, Central Jakarta, Friday, March 8, 2019.
Muchsin said that the rally on Friday, March 8, 2019, against Prasetio was insignificant considering the number of participants. "We are telling DPRD speaker Prasetio Edi that if [the beer share issue] is not followed-up, if he does not pass the program of Jakarta administration, do not blame us [on what will happen]," Muchsin underlined.
During the rally, the mass met Jakarta DPRD deputy speaker Muhammad Taufik who said that the Gerindra faction agreed with Anies Baswedan on the planning sales of the beer share.
The polemic on beer share started when Prasetio refused to sell Jakarta's shares in PT Delta Djakarta and argued that the city's partial ownership did not pose any harm on the capital city but provided dividends for the city's finance.
M JULNIS FIRMANSYAH
