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December 18, 2000

Jakarta
FPI Under Fire

"The police should not have fired easily," screamed Muslim scholar M. Siroj Alwi. The Defenders of Islam (FPI) spokesman and around 1,000 of the organization’s members staged a demonstration in front of the office of the West Jakarta police last Tuesday, to protest being fired upon by police.

For the first time, the mob normally clad in traditional Islamic garb and headgear who have recently acted like some kind of I


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