Dozens of FPI Members Detained for Carrying Out Sweeping Raid
3 July 2016 11:38 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Police detained 42 members of hardliners the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) when they carried out a sweeping raid at Camden cafe in Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta on Saturday (2/7).
The police arrested them as they did not have a permit to do the sweeping.
"They didn’t tell me before (to do the sweeping),” said Sub-head of Public Relations Division of the South Jakarta Resort Police Commissioner Purwanta on Sunday (3/7).
The sweeping raid was done by 42 FPI members who came to the cafe by motorcycles.
According to Purwanta, they came with the leaders Herman, a cleric and rhe sweeping shocked the cafe`s management and the visitors.
He added that when those FPI members went inside the cafe, they confiscated beers of various brands.
In the meantime, from the information of the cafe`s manager a FPI member also hit a visitor.
"The visitors were shocked so they rushed out of the cafe,” Purwanta said.
The cafe`s management and security guards tried to resist the raids but to no avail, and finally at 12:00 am, the South Jakarta resort police led by its Chief Sr. Commissioner Tubagus came to prevent the incident from the getting more serious.
At 00:51, all those FPI members were taken to the headquarter of the South Jakarta police for questioning were freed and allowed to go home at 2:20 am.
EGI ADYATAMA
