HE obtained his elementary and junior high school education at the Christian Bethel School on Jl. Petamburan IV, Tanah Abang, Central Jakarta. He is Mohammad Rizieq bin Hussein Shihab, head honcho of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI), who is now being held in custody at Jakarta Police HQ.

Rizieq was born in Jakarta on August 24, 1965, to the couple of Hussein bin Muhammad Shihab and Sidah Alatas. He reported to be a descendent of Pitung, a Betawi