GPK to sue actor for defamation

GPK to sue actor for defamation

The Legal Aid Institution of the Young Ka'bah
Movement (GPK) revealed on Thursday that it planned to file suit
against small-time actor Ibra Azhari and his lawyer Farhad Abbas
for tarnishing the name of Vice President Hamzah Haz and his
family.

GPK is a youth wing of the United Development Party (PPP),
which Hamzah chairs.

GPK chairman Usamah Hisyam announced that Ibra and Abbas were
responsible for starting the rumor about Hamzah's child being
arrested for drugs.

Last month, the police detained a man called Ibra in his
rented room at Wisma Bumi Rajawali, South Jakarta, for drug
possession along with his girlfriend Laura Wendari. The latter
was said to be Hamzah's daughter from his third wife.

Hamzah's third wife Soraya and Laura both denied it. However,
another name, Firza, popped up and was said to be Hamzah's son.
In an aired interview last week, Firza and his family clarified
that they were not related to Hamzah.

Later, Hamzah's real son Irvan was said to be on brink of
divorce from wife Aisyah and would soon marry Ibra's younger
sister Rahma Azhari. Hamzah furiously said the rumors were
systematic character assassination.

Usamah, who is also Hamzah's personal assistant for political
and security affairs, claimed that none of Hamzah's 15 children
had ever been involved with drugs.

"All of these rumors came from the inconsistent statements of
Ibra and Farhad to reporters and the police, which later created
public controversy connecting the drug case to the Vice
President's children," Usamah said as quoted by Antara. -- JP