TP3 Amien Rais Et Al Believed That There Was No Shooting And Shooting At FPI Laskar, Polri: Investigators Work With Legal Evidence

Karo Penmas, National Police Public Relations Division Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono (Wardhany Tsa Tsia / VOI)

JAKARTA - The Murder Incident Guard Team (TP3) formed by Amien Rais and a number of other figures still believe that there was no gun battle between the police and the six FPI laskar during the clash on the Jakarta-Cikampek KM 50 toll road. Polri asserted that investigators were working based on evidence.

"Independent investigators and investigators work based on valid evidence and from this evidence can make light of an incident / criminal act," said Karo Penmas, Police Public Relations Division Brigadier General Rusdi Hartono, confirmed by VOI, Monday, February 1.

Brigadier General Rusdi emphasized that the FPI paramilitary attack case is still under investigation. "It's still in process," he said.

Earlier in a press conference, one of the TP3 initiators, Marwan Batubara, admitted that his party trusted the testimony of the former board of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) that the six laskar did not carry any weapons at the time of the incident.

"Based on testimony from FPI officials, the FPI paramilitary troops do not have weapons, have never carried out attacks and thus a gun battle is impossible," Marwan said in a virtual press conference, Monday, February 1.

FPI's admission about the soldiers being not equipped with weapons is inversely proportional to the results of the investigation by the National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM) and the police investigation.

Because of that, Marwan admitted that his party did not trust the results of the investigation by Komnas HAM and the police.

"The process of investigating the murder of 6 FPI laskar is still far from expectations and in fact tends to contradict the objective conditions and facts on the ground. Both the National Police and the National Human Rights Commission have provided investigation reports that can be deemed to lead to misleading opinions and cover up the true incident," he said.

Marwan considered that the actions of the state apparatus who shot the six FPI troops had exceeded the limits and were beyond their authority, namely using violent means outside of legal procedures.