FPI Members Shot Dead; IPW Alleges SOP Violations by Police

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Indonesia Police Watch (IPW) asked the National Police to admit that there were violations of standard operating procedures (SOP) in the death of FPI security guards or Laskar FPI members at KM 50-51 of the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road on Monday, Dec. 7.

“IPW hopes that the National Police are willing to admit the SOP violations,” said IPW chairman Neta S Pane in a written statement, Monday, Dec. 14, 2020.

Based on the results of the case reconstruction, Neta saw three SOP violations committed by the police officers, especially in the death of four FPI members in the police car.

He outlined that first after the two group members were killed in a shootout as police’s claim, the four other members were brought into a police car without being handcuffed. 

“This is very odd. Rizieq’s (FPI frontman) hands are handcuffed when he is taken to the detention cell at Metro Police HQ. Why were the four FPI members’ hands not handcuffed when they were put into the police car right after there was a shootout?” 

Neta added that it was also absurd and irrational that the police brought in the four FPI members to the police’s eight-passenger vehicle that also carried the officers.

The police officers who should have been trained, he went on, were proven to not be Professional, Modern, and Trusted or Promoter and failed to knock out unarmed FPI members. “So the officers shot them dead at a close range,” Neta added.

The case reconstruction revealed how reckless the police officers were. Neta opined that the police spokesman Insp. Gen. Argo Yuwono’s statement regarding the stern measures taken by his officers during the clash in the police car did not show the professionalism of the National Police.

IPW further asked the National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) and the House of Representatives (DPR) Law Commission to urge President Joko "Jokowi" Widodo to form an independent fact-finding team for the case.

“If Jokowi says an independent fact-finding team is not necessary, it means that the President does not want the shooting of the FPI members to be completely resolved, so his commitment to upholding the rule of the law is questionable,” Neta said.

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