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Government Threatens to Freeze Hard-Line Islamic Groups After Ministry Attacked
Camelia Pasandaran | January 12, 2012

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Kesiangan
2:17pm Jan 14, 2012

Let's start the countdown.

-Lauren-
9:12am Jan 13, 2012

What does freeze even mean? Stop police funding FPI? The FPI has been funded by the police for years but it's now a dog with no master, that is, Riziqi cannot be controlled anymore. I don't know how the Ministry of Home Affairs will manage to do this though, as it seems the police have also gone feral.

jchay
8:07am Jan 13, 2012

Quote DrDez: "I am rapidly tiring of this I really am"

I hear you.

Personne
7:53am Jan 13, 2012

Why nowadays, Indonesian Police Chief tends to become fat? They're slimmer before.

blightyboy
7:00am Jan 13, 2012

Its too late. Who exactly are the government going to use to go up against these urban thugs? Not the police for sure, Timur will never go against the FPI. The government have no control over the police, who are more akin to these gangsters and thugs, than against them.

Oh! And what is that loud noise I hear coming from the palace? I do believe its snoring.

The Indonesian government signaled that it may finally act against the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) after a mob stoned the Home Affairs Ministry in a shocking attack in Central Jakarta on Thursday.

Home Affairs Minister Gamawan Fauzi told the Jakarta Globe that the ministry would “evaluate” both the FPI and fringe Islamic People’s Forum (FUI) — which has been vocal in the campaign against the GKI Yasmin church in Bogor — on Friday.

He said the evaluation could result in a freeze on the activities of the FUI and FPI, which continues to wage what it claims is a moral crusade, often in direct contravention of Indonesian law.

“We have decided to take two courses of action,” Gamawan told the Globe. “First, we have already asked law enforcement to investigate the case and charge those responsible for the attack. Secondly, we’re going to evaluate the organizations, which might lead to freezing the organization concerning the act of anarchy.”

Few members of the group, often condemned as a group of thugs, ever face charges for their often violent stand-over tactics. The few that have only receive light sentences.