Police Urged Sympathizers To Abu Bakar Ba'asyir Not To Get Off On The Road

Abu Bakr Ba'asyir (Antara)

JAKARTA - Sympathizers from the convicted terrorist Abu Bakar Ba'asyir case are advised not to go down the road and make the crowd greet them. Abu Bakr is known to be pure free on Friday 8 January.

"We urge ABB sympathizers not to carry out any good activities on the road, either with the group, and at the arrival location at Ponpes Ngruki Cemani, Grogol District, Sukoharjo, on January 8," said Sukoharjo Police Chief, AKBP Bambang Yugo Pamungkas. , reported by Antara, Wednesday, January 6.

According to the Police Chief who is also the Deputy Chair of the Sukoharjo COVID-19 Task Force, this means that Abu Bakar's return to Sukoharjo was not accompanied by a crowd on the road. Because it can create crowds that have the potential to transmit COVID-19.

"If there is a large crowd at ABB's arrival, the Sukoharjo COVID-19 Task Force will act decisively to disperse it persuasively by appealing. Then dismiss and finally enforce the law in accordance with applicable regulations," said the Chief of Police.

Sukoharjo Regent Wardoyo Wijaya said, in principle, the coordination meeting resulted in a joint commitment from the Ngruki Cemani Islamic Boarding School, Grogol Sukoharjo District, with the Police, Kodim 0726 and the Sukoharjo COVID-19 Task Force.

According to the Regent, the Ngruki Islamic Boarding School would not present students and sympathizers, in essence, there would be no potential gatherings when ABB returned to Sukoharjo.

"So that means, the boarding school uses self-service security starting from a distance of about 1 kilometer to the lodge there are 20 points to prevent crowds," said the Regent. '

The Regent hopes that hopefully this will not conflict with officers from both the local government and the TNI-Polri who are members of the COVID-19 Task Force in Sukoharjo Regency.

Muhammad Darwis, as a representative from Ponpes Ngruki, Cemani Village, Grogol Sukoharjo District, said that the point of arrival, Ustadz ABB, at the Ngruki Sukoharjo Ponpes there was no ceremonial event, so there was no committee, on Friday, January 8

The ABB Ustadz returned from Jakarta to be escorted by the Muslim Lawyers Team (TPM) together with the ABB family, and immediately headed to the Ngruki Ponpes. So there was no welcoming ceremony and Ustadz Abu immediately took a break.

"The ABB group is expected to come from Jakarta and arrive in Sukoharjo, Friday, January 8 late in the evening. So there will be no meeting," he said.

According to him, he will only hold a gathering, at the Ngruki Ponpes, on Saturday (9/1), morning, with the Islamic boarding school clerics, TPM, and several community leaders who are allowed to enter the boarding school.