PIB threatens to sue police

PIB threatens to sue police

UJUNGPANDANG, South Sulawesi: The local chapter of the New
Indonesia Party (PIB) threatened to sue the police on Wednesday
for asking its campaigners to cancel its gathering only hours
before it was about to begin.

Party secretary Juliadi, however, claimed party officials
notified the police of the gathering plan as required by law.

"The police should have informed us long before the gathering
if they wanted to cancel it ... We've been harmed politically,
so we'll press charges against the police," he said.

According to Juliadi, as a "small party" PIB had been let down
twice by the government. He said its first disappointment was
when the state-run post office sent a party document a week late
to Jakarta.

He did not identify the document.

The police's abrupt notification of the cancellation, Juliadi
said, prompted thousands of supporters to leave the campaigning
site. (30)