From Miyabi to Gambling Dens

Records of club expenditures funded by regional budgets are murky. The money may be used to inflate contracts, cover ‘non-technical’ costs or image-boosting.

February 23, 2011

A wide range of violent acts have been committed by the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI). They range from attacks on nightclubs to political acts. The late President Abdurrahman Wahid once threatened to disband them, as has President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.

Still going strong, the organization’s leaders have even given an ultimatum to the president: “disband Ahmadiyah” or “it’s revolution.” It is not clear how the FPI could ever orga

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