Police question FPI members

Police question FPI members

JAKARTA (JP): City Police began questioning on Monday two
members of Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) Muslim organization, who
have been named suspects in a raid on four gaming centers in West
Jakarta in mid-December last year.

FPI's Depok, West Java chairman Habib Idrus Al Kadri and
Munandar, who heads FPI force in Tambora district in West
Jakarta, have been charged with violating Article 170 of the
Criminal Code on communal attack on a building. The crime carries
a maximum sentence of five and a half years in jail.

Also questioned on Monday was FPI preacher Tubagus Muhammad
Sidiq, who was summoned as a witness.

During the session, the FPI activists were accompanied by
their four-strong team of lawyers led by Zainuddin.

A truckload FPI members vandalized the recreation centers in
the Taman Duta Mas shopping complex in Jelambar district on Dec.
11. Police arrived when the attackers were leaving and shot the
tires of the trucks carrying the FPI members and stopped them.

No injuries were reported in the incident, one of a flurry of
attacks perpetrated by the radical Muslim activists throughout
2000. (ylt/jun)