FPI's Rizieq Shihab to Answer Police Summon on Monday: Lawyer
Jakarta. Rizieq Shihab, leader of the hardline Islamic Defenders Front, or FPI, will answer a police summon to be interrogated as a suspect in a charge of insulting Indonesia's state ideology Pancasila on Monday (13/02), his lawyer said.
The fireband cleric previously failed to attend two summons on Tuesday and Friday after being named suspect for insulting Pancasila and defaming the country's founding father Sukarno.
"If nothing goes wrong, we will answer the summon from the West Java Police," Rizieq's lawyer Ki Agus Muhammad Choiri told state news agency Antara on Saturday.
Agus also said that Rizieq will not bring his supporters to the West Java Police headquarters in Bandung on Monday as suggested by the police.
Separately, West Java Police spokesman Chief Comr. Yusri Yunus confirmed Rizieq's plan to answer the summon.
"Yes, we've been informed. It will be good to see him on Monday," Yusri said.
One of Sukarno's daughters, Sukmawati Sukarnoputri, reported Rizieq to the police in October last year for an alleged insult against Pancasila. He could face up to four years in prison if found guilty.
He allegedly also insulted Indonesia's first president, Sukarno, and mocked the decision by both secular and religious leaders back in 1945 to drop a line in the Pancasila obliging Indonesian Muslims to follow Islamic law.
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