“The police, for example, should have no excuse but to follow up on the President’s instruction to enforce the law against members of the FPI who commit violence."
Source/Credit: The Jakarta Post
By Margareth S. Aritonang | July 29 2013
In spite of the recent public condemnation of violent raids in Makassar, South Sulawesi, and Kendal, Central Java, the firebrand group Islam Defenders Front (FPI) will remain a feature of the country’s political life, with no major political parties prepared to curb the hard-line organization.
Almost all political parties, except for the United Development Party (PPP), which is chaired by Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali, have issued condemnations of the role of the FPI in the fatal clash in Kendal, which left a pregnant resident, Tri Muniarti, dead.
But when pressed about what to do next with the organization, three major political parties, the ruling Democratic Party, the Golkar Party and the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) maintained that it was up to the National Police and the Home Ministry to deal with it.
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