FPI men lost in city: Police chief

FPI men lost in city: Police chief

JAKARTA: The 113 members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI)
were not missing, as the group had claimed, but were lost in the
city, Jakarta Police chief Insp.Gen. Sofjan Jacoeb said on
Thursday.

As they had come from Surakarta, Central Java, the police
chief speculated, they probably had not been able to find their
way around the city to return to FPI headquarters, detik.com
reported.

"If they are proved to be missing, we will carry out an
investigation and search for them," he added.

FPI claimed that over 100 of their members went missing after
their demonstration was broken up by the police on Monday.

Sofjan also said that three police Mobile Brigade (Brimob)
officers had been declared suspects in the assault on a group of
journalists during the demonstration.

The three officers are currently in custody at Brimob
Headquarters in Kelapa Dua, Depok, he added.--JP