Komnas HAM Called The Death Of 4 FPI Warriors Violating Human Rights, Must Be Taken To The Criminal Court

JAKARTA - The National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) presented the results of the shooting investigation involving the police and members of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) at Km 48 and 50, the Jakarta Cikampek Toll Road, Karawang, West Java.

As a result, Komnas HAM said that the police had committed human rights violations against four FPI members.

There are two different contexts to look at the shooting case. "There were six people who died in two different contexts of the incident," said the Commissioner and Chair of the National Commission on Human Rights Choirul Anam in a press conference which was broadcast online, Friday, January 8.

The context of the first incident, said Anam, occurred on Jalan International Karawang to KM 48 Cikampek. In this incident two people died.

"The substance of the context is the incidents of shuffling between cars and attacking each other between FPI officers and troops, even using firearms," he said.

While in the second context, this incident occurred around KM 50 of the Cikampek Toll Road. At that time, as many as four FPI soldiers who were alive were later found dead.

"At KM 50 and above, there were four people who were still alive under the control of state officials who were later found dead so that the incident was a form of human rights violation,"

"The shooting of four people at the same time without any other effort to avoid casualties indicates that there was an act of unlawful killing against the FPI troops," he explained.

For this incident, Komnas HAM recommended that the incident which resulted in the deaths of four FPI soldiers be continued with a criminal court mechanism.

"In order to uphold justice, it should not only be done internally. It must be enforced in a criminal court," he said.

In addition, another recommendation is to further investigate the possession of firearms allegedly used by the FPI. Because, of the seven projectiles found by Komnas HAM, two of them were identical to non-homemade weapons.

"And four pieces of evidence allegedly part of a shell and it was declared that 1 piece of evidence was not part of the cartridge casings and three cartridges were identical to the weapons of police officers," said Anam.