Komnas HAM attackers sent to jail

Komnas HAM attackers sent to jail

JAKARTA: The Central Jakarta District Court sentenced six
members of the Betawi Brotherhood Forum (FBR) on Monday to six
months in jail for an attack on the offices of the National
Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) last year.

Presiding Judge Iskandar Tjakke found Endang Saidi and Daniel
Al Haz guilty for instigating the attack, in which a Komnas HAM
staff member and several people representing the Urban Poor
Consortium (UPC), who were filing a complaint with Komnas HAM,
were injured.

In a separate trial of the same case, presiding Judge M.
Daning Sanusi handed down sentences to four other FBR members,
Ahmad Gunarso, Wartono, Yayat Hardian and Dedy Bachtiar, for
causing damage to the Komnas HAM office in Menteng, Central
Jakarta.

All six men were charged with violating Article 170 of the
Criminal Code, which carries a maximum penalty of seven years in
prison.

Claiming to be native Jakartans, FBR has repeatedly shown
hostility toward the UPC and its leader Wardah Hafidz, who have
strongly criticized the city administration's discriminatory
policy toward the poor. -- JP