[AA.TR] Five students have been tossed in the slammer ... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not... for allegedly attacking police personnel after they were identified from images taken during disturbances that followed a mass demonstration against a governor seen to insult the Koran.
Tuesday's arrests comes as the country awaits a live television show on the allegations made against Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, due to be broadcast Nov. 15 or 16.
Jakarta police spokesperson Commissioner Awi Setiyono said Tuesday that the five are members of an Islamic organization involved in Friday's protest and they were arrested early Tuesday in various places in the capital.
"They are all members of the Islamic Students Association (HMI)," Setiyono told Anadolu Agency by phone.
The men are being held on charges of committing violent affray on Friday when trouble broke out outside the presidential palace after what had been a peaceful protest against Ahok by around 100,000 Moslems.
The governor -- a Christian -- is accused of publicly insulting Islam, however he says he was calling for people not to be "deceived" by those using a Koranic verse, Al Maidah: Chapter 51, not that the verse itself was insulting.
Setiyono said Tuesday that one of those held was a 23-year-old man caught on a news hound's camera trying to hit police with a bamboo pole.
"He attacked police after his friends did," said Setiyono. "They were provoked after someone read over loudspeakers that they should not be afraid [of the police] and move forward."
On Tuesday, national police spokesperson Commissioner Martinus Sitompul told Anadolu Agency that police would carry out President Joko Widodo's order to perform a transparent case screening on national television next week.
"The case is planned for Tuesday or Wednesday," said Sitompul.
The live legal broadcast is the first of its kind in Indonesia, and organized to answer any questions the public may have, while dealing with any accusations of bias
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[CEBUDAILYNEWS.INQUIRER.NET] The Carcar City Police is studying what action to take against a teenager, who posted on her Facebook page a false information about a supposed 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... group allegedly cornering a Ceres Bus in Barangay Ocaña, Carcar City, Cebu.
Chief Insp. Jose Liddawa, Carcar City Police Chief, said they were considering pressing charges against the 17-year-old Information Technology and Communications student of a school in Argao town, who posted the false information on her FB page last Nov. 7, to stop others from also spreading false information on social media.
A person could be held liable for spreading a hoax or false information under two penal laws‐Presidential Decree No. 90 of 1973, which penalizes rumor mongering and spreading false information and Republic Act No. 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012.
"But if we don’t do anything, this might lead other malicious Facebook users to follow and spread more false information," said Liddawa.
Liddawa said that there were never any Abu Sayyaf group in the city and that what happened last Monday night was only a vehicular accident. "I was at the cop shoppe that night and we’ve never tracked such report. Malakas lang siguro yung imagination nung batang ’yun," Liddawa said in a phone interview.
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