Responding To The KNPI Report, Abu Widow: FPI Disbanded Heartache, Revenge Rizieq Imprisoned

Social Media Activist Permadi Arya aka Abu Janda (Photo: Instagram @ permadiaktivis2)

JAKARTA - Social media activist Permadi Arya alias Abu Janda responded to a report by the Indonesian National Youth Committee (KNPI) against him to the National Police Criminal Investigation Unit, Wednesday, January 27 yesterday. According to him, the motive for the report was just revenge.

This was expressed by Abu Janda via his Twitter account, @ permadiaktivis1 while mentioning to the accounts of the Chairman of the KNPI DPP, Haris Pertama @harisknpi and the Directorate of Cyber Crime, Bareskrim Polri @CCICPolri.

"This is a political grudge. The reporter is @harisknpi, a defender of FPI. FPI's heartache is disbanded, I want revenge for Rizieq in prison. I am sure the police @CCICPolri can judge that it cannot be used as a means of revenge," tweeted Abu Janda.

Capture the screen of Abu Janda's tweet

Abu Janda was reported by the Indonesian National Youth Committee (KNPI) to the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police on suspicion of SARA-based hate speech against Papuan activist Natalius Pigai.

"We have received our report, thank God, cooperatively from the police. We have attached the evidence as well," said Head of the KNPI DPP Legal Division, Medya Rischa Lubis, to reporters at Bareskrim Polri, Thursday, January 28.

"That today we have reported the twitter account @ permadiaktivis1 which is allegedly owned by the brother of Permadi Arya alias Abu Janda," he continued.

The alleged hate speech, said Medya, was because Abu Janda's Twitter tweet used words that were deemed insulting on January 2. In the tweet there is a sentence alluding to evolution.

"The words evolution is the bottom line for us to report the @permadiaktivis account for allegedly spreading hate speech," he said.

On twitter, the hashtag catch the widow's ashes #TangkapAbuJanda is also trending. Not a few netizens supported the KNPI report or defended Abu Janda.