The Indonesian government is considering suspending the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) for its Sunday's attack on activists at the National Monument (Monas), locla press said Tuesday.
Coordinating Minister for Politics, Law and Security Widodo AdiSucipto has said the government was looking at a 1985 law that allows for the suspension of a mass organization.
"We should not only see this problem as a violent action, but as something that may tarnish our country's civilization," Widodo was quoted by major newspaper The Jakarta Post as saying.
"We are now conducting strict legal processes in this case," he added.
Widodo said President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had ordered an investigation of the organization that ambushed activists from the National Alliance for the Freedom of Faith and Religion (AKKBB) atMonas, who were rallying to commemorate the 63rd year of Pancasilastate ideology and also to support members of the Jamaah Ahmadiyah Islamic sect.
"We should put this problem within the context that every mass organization must be in line with the 1985 law," Widodo said.
Under the 1985 law, the government can freeze the central board of a mass organization if it commits an act harmful to order and security, receives foreign assistance without government consent or support foreign parties that could act counter to national interests.
Source:Xinhua
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