[WaPo] In mid-February, Muhammad al-Khaththath, leader of the hard-line Muslim Community Forum, held court on the top floor of a Jakarta fast-food restaurant. With key deputies gathered around, he explained the direction in which he hoped to push relatively secular, democratic Indonesia.
Sharia would become the law of the land, non-Muslims would lose their leadership posts and thieves would have their hands lopped off, he said. He also criticized Joko Widodo, Indonesia’s pluralist president. Widodo “isn’t a liberal Muslim,” Khaththath said. “He’s a Muslim who doesn’t get it.”
Six weeks later, Khaththath was detained on treason charges, accused of plotting a coup. But in an April 19 runoff election for governor of Jakarta, his preferred candidate, Anies Baswedan, defeated the Christian incumbent, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, after a campaign fraught with religious overtones.
Since then, hard-line Islamist organizations have gained stature; their ability to mobilize huge crowds was considered crucial to securing Baswedan's lopsided victory. But a strong backlash also has emerged, led by moderate Muslims who worry that conservative Islamists are wrecking Indonesia's tradition of religious tolerance.
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[NEWSINFO.INQUIRER.NET] Senior Supt. Felipe Natividad, the Bohol police director, welcomed the investigation of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on the escape and subsequent death of an alleged Abu Sayyaf ...also known as al-Harakat al-Islamiyya, an Islamist terror group based in Jolo, Basilan and Zamboanga. Since its inception in the early 1990s, the group has carried out bombings, kidnappings, murders, head choppings, and extortion in their uniquely Islamic attempt to set up an independent Moslem province in the Philippines. Abu Sayyaf forces probably number less than 300 cadres. The group is closely allied with remnants of Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiya and has loose ties with MILF and MNLF who sometimes provide cannon fodder... member less than 24 hours after he was tossed in the calaboose Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try! "That’s ok. We are open to (an) investigation. It is better in order to clear everything," said Natividad on Monday.
Natividad said that the Philippine National Police has started a separate investigation on the death of Saad Samad Kiram alias Abu Saad.
"There is an internal investigation together with CIDG (Criminal Investigation and Detection Group), ongoing yan," he said.
Alfonso Bayocot Jr., head of the CHR-Bohol, went to the Bohol Provincial Police Office on Monday morning to secure a copy of the official police report on death of Abu Saad as part of an in-depth investigation.
"We want to be enlightened on what really happened. He might be a terrorist but our office has a mandate to investigate cases of human rights ...which often include carefully measured allowances of freedom at the convenience of the state... violations," he added.
Police arrested Kiram in the morning of May 4 after he went out of hiding to ask for food. Although he was fed by a resident, the police were tipped off of his presence that led to his arrest.
He was brought to the Bohol Provincial Police Office in Tagbilaran where he was interrogated. By early morning of May 5, he was transported to the Bohol District Jail, also in Tagbilaran, where he was supposed to be detained.
But Kiram allegedly escaped about 2 p.m. and was cornered more than two hours later when he was shot thrice while grappling for a gun from a policeman.
He suffered gunshot wounds in the thigh, chest and forehead.
[Al Jazeera] Indonesia has announced that it will ban the group Hizbut Tahrir ...an al-Qaeda recruiting organization banned in most countries. It calls for the reestablishment of the Caliphate... . It says the organization's ideology calling for an Islamic state is against the constitution.
The move comes just a day before the verdict in the blasphemy trial of a Christian governor, known as Ahok. For months conservative religious groups have protested against him and demanded the Christian governor be put in prison for blasphemy.
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[WaPo] In mid-February, Muhammad al-Khaththath, leader of the hard-line Muslim Community Forum, held court on the top floor of a Jakarta fast-food restaurant. With key deputies gathered around, he explained the direction in which he hoped to push relatively secular, democratic Indonesia.
[NEWSINFO.INQUIRER.NET] Senior Supt. Felipe Natividad, the Bohol police director, welcomed the investigation of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) on the escape and subsequent death of an alleged 
