The Jakarta Globe, Aug 07, 2014
Jakarta. The Yogyakarta chairman of the hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) was arrested by police on Wednesday over a fraudulent million-dollar land sale, Indonesian media reported.
“We arrested him on Wednesday and there will be a further investigation,” director of special crime division of Yogyakarta Police Sr. Comr. Kokot Indarto said, as quoted by news portal Kompas.com on Thursday.
Bambang Tedi, chairman of the Yogyakarta branch of the FPI, is alleged to have sold land to a Yogyakarta resident named Rico Joy for Rp 11.5 billion ($980,000) three years ago using a forged land certificate.
Rico is understood to have reported the case to the police recently after the accused was unable to hand over the land certificate.
Police had summoned Bambang twice, but he did not appear, forcing officers to arrest him. Bambang told police has was in poor health but a medical examination revealed otherwise, the Kompas report said.
A spokeswoman for the Yogayakarta Police, Adj. Sr. Comr. Anny Pujiastuti, emphasized that the arrest had nothing to with the suspect’s political leanings.
“This is a purely personal case and has nothing to do with the organization [Bambang] led,” Anny said.
Two years ago, the Yogyakarta District Court sentenced Bambang to six months’ probation for attacking the wife of the head of another hard-line group, the Islamic Jihad Front
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