Indonesia: Ahmadis, prayer center attacked during Friday prayers in Bukit Duri, Tebet, South Jakarta

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Commissioner’s first denial of the incident did not make sense because, according to Tempo News, he later acknowledged that after Friday prayers residents of Bukit Duri did gather at the Ahmadiyya prayer house. 

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By Staff Report | June 12, 2015

Followers of an Indonesian extremist group, Islamic defenders Front (FPI), attacked an Ahmadiyya prayer center in Bukit Duri, Tebet, South Jakarta, disrupting the Friday prayers and forcing the worshipers out of the building while police personnel stood by doing nothing.

The noisy protest leaders threatened Ahmadis and blocked entry into the prayer center while hundreds of onlookers chanted anti-Ahmadī slogans in the street.

Images of police personnel standing by while FPI mob blocked Ahmadis from the mosque entry appeared in social media throughout the afternoon only to be later denied by Tebet Police Chief Commissioner I Ketut Sudarma saying it never happened.

Commissioner Sudarma rejected that there was any ‘commotion associated with the presence of the Ahmadiyah congregation in the region,’ Tempo News reported.

‘There was no riot or commotion, a normal situation,’ Ketut told Temp News when contacted later on Friday, June 12th, 2015.

Commissioner’s first denial of the incident did not make sense because, according to Tempo News, he later acknowledged that after Friday prayers residents of Bukit Duri did gather at the Ahmadiyya prayer house.

‘This is done because people feel uncomfortable with the presence of the Ahmadiyah,’ Ketut was reported by Tempo News as saying and contradicting his previous statements.

Ketut first stated that the residents have slowly dispersed but later admitted some people are still at the scene to see the situation in the house.

 "The police are still on the scene to ensure the safety that all remain conducive," he was reported to have said.

The Ahmadiyya congregation did not put up resistance to the mob and avoided violence. They offered their Friday prayers in the open-air outside the building while surrounded by FPI protesters.

  --  Indonesia: Ahmadis, prayer center attacked during Friday prayers in Bukit Duri, Tebet, South Jakarta




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