Sat, 06 Nov 2004

Fighting injustice

The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) and the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) have conducted raids against entertainment venues.

Why don't they just raid Terminal III of Soekarno-Hatta Airport? A lot of injustice happens there. For example, my brother's maid recently went to the airport to pick up her sister, who was arriving from overseas. Upon entering the parking lot, she was asked to pay Rp 80,000.

After meeting her sister, she had to fill in a form declaring that she was a relative of an arriving worker, for which she was charged Rp 120,000. When they finally got to their rented minivan, they had pay another Rp 50,000 just to get out of the parking lot.

They are brethren of the FPI, FBR, so why don't they defend them? Members of these groups are simply thugs who dishonor religion and native Jakartans. If they are really serious in helping law enforcement why don't they also go after the gambling dens that blatantly operate in many parts of Jakarta? Or drug trafficking in so many back alleys. Or help to unravel traffic snarls in Tanah Abang? WISNU MURTI Shanghai, China