Police to question Doulos chief
Police to question Doulos chief
JAKARTA (JP): Jakarta Police chief Maj. Gen. Noegroho
Djajoesman said on Tuesday he planned to summon the chairman of
the burned down Christian-run Doulos Foundation, Royandi
Hutasoit, for questioning within one week.
"We intend to question him over the incident, as a witness in
the Doulos investigation," Noegroho told reporters at Jakarta
Police Headquarters.
"Until now, the investigation has arrested 11 people as main
suspects in the arson attack that left one person dead," he said.
Some 300 people, armed with sharp weapons and Molotov
cocktails, stormed the foundation complex in Cipayung, East
Jakarta, and burned the 2.7-hectare complex to the ground on
Wednesday night.
Prior to talk with reporters, Noegroho met a group of eight
members of the Indonesian Committee for World Muslim Solidarity
(Kisdi), discussing the Doulos matter.
"They just came to remind me that in the course of the
investigation I was not to forget about the alleged conversion
problem ... that Doulos people had allegedly tried to convert
Muslims in the area to Christianity," Noegroho said.
Separately on Tuesday, Governor Sutiyoso said the Doulos
incident must be taken as a bitter lesson, teaching that smaller
attacks by the general public must not go unpunished.
"We can't let small violations go on, and wait for something
larger to happen," Sutiyoso said.
On the matter of the Doulos building permit, the governor said
that the city administration was still considering whether it
would issue a building permit to the burned down foundation.
The administration had earlier refused to issue a permit to
the foundation, which was running a theology institute and a
narcotics rehabilitation center, because it had no license.
"The city administration did not delay issuing the permit, but
it was the foundation who violated city regulations on land
usage," Sutiyoso had said.
Sutiyoso, however, admitted that the incident was a good
example of city officials' incompetence.
"The city administration will impose sanctions on the East
Jakarta mayoralty for allowing the wrong usage of the building
permit."
Earlier on Saturday, the management of the Doulos Foundation
pledged to continue their activities despite the city
administration's order to cease its operations. (ylt/05)