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Senior FPI officials booted out of PalangkarayaIna Parlina, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sat, 02/11/2012 9:53 PM

Hundreds of protesters from the local community in Palangkaraya, Central Kalimantan, staged a protest on

Saturday at the Tjilik Riwut airport to block the arrival of four senior leaders of the Islamic hardline group Islam

Defenders Front (FPI).

Some of the protesters, largely from the Dayak tribe, managed to force their way onto the airports apron and

runway to search for the FPI officials, who came to Palangkaraya to inaugurate the provincial branch of the

organization.

Following the security breach, management of the airport ordered the FPI members to remain on board a Sriwijaya

Air plane while other passengers disembarked. The four FPI members were then flown to Banjarmasin in South

Kalimantan.

The protesters dispersed only after they were assured by the airport operator that none of the FPI members had

got off the plane.

Initial reports said that FPI chairman Habib Rizieq Syihab, was on the plane.

Secretary general of FPI Ahmad Sobri Lubis denied the report, saying that Rizieq was not bound for Palangkaraya.

Habib was not on the plane. He was in Jakarta and is currently ill, Ahmad told The Jakarta Postin a telephone

interview on Saturday.

In fact, it was Sobri who led the four-person delegation to Palangkaraya. I was the one who boarded the flight to

Palangkaraya, he said.

He confirmed that there were three other senior members of FPI on the plane, who later ended their journey in

Banjarmasin.

The plane was surrounded by Dayaks at the [Tjilik Riwut] airport, he said.

Sobri said the four FPI members were going to attend a mass prayer in the city and the inauguration of a provincial

chapter of the organization, headquartered in Palangkaraya.

Lucas Tingkes, deputy chairman of the Central Kalimantan Dayak Tribe Council (DAD) said that the organization

had asked the Central Kalimantan Police to ban the FPI provincial chapter.

We have concerns that FPIs presence will create tension because the organizations activities often create

anxiety among members of the community. Central Kalimantan is known as a place conducive to religious

harmony, he said as quoted by Antara newswire.

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Widya UTAMA, Bergen | Mon, 13/02/2012 - 15:02pm

I wonder why FPI lives with freedom to terrorize in Jakarta and surrounding areas only.

And parallelly those behavior of Bogor Mayor and its muslim citizens towards GKI Congregation, and those in

Sukabumi protesting Valentines day celebration.And all those anarchism happened in West Jawan areas. Why?

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Reza, Jakarta | Mon, 13/02/2012 - 12:02pm

Jakarta and rest of city across Sabang to Merauke has to do the same thing. It's Now or Never !

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handoko, jakarta | Sun, 12/02/2012 - 11:02am

We should have done the same when they flew back to jalkarta !!!!!

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Kevin, Jakarta | Sun, 12/02/2012 - 10:02am

Spectacular! And what great comments too! The FPI is a terrorist organization made up of weak and pathetic men

who can find no other joy in their lives than to harass others who don't live up to the made up ideals their

uneducated leadership thinks all should live up to. The highest ideals are that of cooperation and peace. The FPI

must die!

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Joshua, Jakarta, Indonesia | Sun, 12/02/2012 - 10:02am

I told you folks, the minorities hold the huge territories. The tribes had the complex system and the structure to

defend them.

This is what we had, what united us, what would lead us to the peace and prosperity.

It is the time for FPI to shred its identity and back to the nature.

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Abu Ahmad, Solo | Sun, 12/02/2012 - 08:02am

Horraay!! Hats off to the people of Dayak who stand up against terror and intimidation! Power belongs to the

people! I hope the President, the police, and the attorney generals take notice and quit hiding from their

responsibility to enforce the law. Ban FPI now!!

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Walter John Gomm, Denpasar | Sun, 12/02/2012 - 07:02am

Great news from Kalimantan and hopefully other communities throughout Indonesia will follow this example and

stand up to the criminal FPI thugs. It must be the communities who act against them as the police and government

are too close to FPI and will do nothing to uphold the law. They are after all cowards - remember when the

American invaded Iraq and Rizieq declared he was going to wage jihad on them? He got as far as Jordan where

he saw the Americans were serious and he might be hurt so he promptly came back to Indonesia. Now we have

his involvement with a cleric accused of paedophilia - a very worrying situation and who knows how many other

FPI members are involved too.

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