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News Focus: POLICE'S CLAIM TERRORISTS WANTED TO KILL PRESIDENT DOUBTED
By Eliswan Azly
Jakarta, May 17 (ANTARA) - A few Muslim observers have expressed doubt about National Police Police Chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri's statement that `members of terrorist networks the police had recently broken up had planned to assassinate the president.
They said the police chief's claim was hard to believe because the extremist ideology of terrorists called for a global struggle against the United States.
KH Hasyim Muzadi, former chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest Islamic organization, said on Sunday he cast doubt on the police chief's statement that the terror network in the country had planned to attack President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
"I don't believe that the terror network in Indonesia has the target to assassinate SBY (Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono)," said Muzadi in his capacity as president of the World Conference on Religions for Peace (WCRP).
Hasyim, who is also chief of the Al Hikam Islamic boarding school in Depok, West Java, said it seemed to him that terrorists had no business with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
What was more, the statement came from the police and not from arrested terror suspects, he said.
He expressed regret over the act of police officers who had shot dead people suspected of involvement in terror networks.
"The police have arrogantly shot dead terror suspects without asking them whether or not they were terrorists," he said.
These acts had ruined the past achievement of the country which tried terror suspects through the court, he said.
In fact, the US which sponsored the worldwide war on terrorism had improved its method of combating terrorism, he said.
Earlier, General Danuri told a press conference last Friday that members of the terror network uncovered in Aceh recently had planned to attack the Independence Day ceremony next August 17 - an event usually attended by the president.
Danuri said the police learned about their plan from documents confiscated from terror suspects arrested in Bekasi, West Java, and in Sukoharjo, Central Java, on Wednesday and Thursday.
"They planned to attack all officials attending the ceremony. All the state officials at the event would be killed, including state guests," he said.
For the purpose, the terror group had assigned a suspect named Suhardi alias Usman to take 21 firearms including a grenade launcher, he said.
According to Danuri , after the attack was successfully carried out and all state officials were killed, the terrorists would replace the country's democratic system with a system of their choice.
Sharing Muzadi's view was Duski Samad, a professor at the Imam Bonjol Institute for Islamic Studies in Padang who said the killing of terrorists recently was the same with what security forces had done against Dulmatin and his associates in the past.
The problem now was that why the terror suspects should be gunned down, Duski said in response to the anti-terror police personnel's raids on terrorist hideouts in Tangerang, Solo, Pamulang and other areas.
According to Duski, the policemen involved in the raids were equipped wih sophisticated rifles while the terror suspects just had short-barrel guns. But, instead of capturing them, the police tended to kill them.
"This is actually a kind of inhuman and unprofessional manner in cracking down the terrorists. The police could arrest them instead of gunning them down," he said.
In a war against terror, the people senses of religiousity and justice should remain respected by the police, Dr Sofyan Siregar, a Islamic intellectual who is a roving lecturer of the Islamic University of North Sumatra, said on Monday.
The police' way of handling the terror suspects as shown in their sweeping operations over the past few years was really unsympathetic and unprofessional.
"If the police are only able to kill terrorists, I think the gangster could also do that. It is not necessary to depend on the police," he said.
What was saddening was some residents really saw how the police killed such unarmed terror suspects under the police arrest, Sofyan said, adding this was certainly against the procedures in capturing a suspect and also violated the human rights.
The police's way of handling the terror suspects as shown in their sweeping operations over the past few years was also criticized by Abu Jibril whose son was being tried for terrorism charges.
Abu Jibril, the father of Muhammad Jibril who was sentenced of his involvement in terrorism, said the police Densus 88 anti-terror squad should not kill the terror suspects as in the Pamulang raids.
During the raid, the police personnel gunned down Dulmain, the Indonesia's most wanted terror suspect and two men believed to be his bodyguards.
The shooting of armed terrorists who did not want to surrender to the police, according to Sofyan, was okeyed. They deserved to be treated like that.
In the meantime, Police Spokesman Edward Aritonang said that the terrorists killed and captured recently were linked to a terrorist training facility discovered in Aceh province in February.
"Five were killed and one arrested," he told reporters. "We suspect they were planning to launch a terror attack within the next few weeks."
In response to Edward's statement, Sofyan said what was lamentable was that the shooting of terrorists in a very shortest distance after they were under the police's handling.
"If we quote the testimony of some witnesses living near the location of the targeted sweeping operation, the terrorists were reported to be gunned down in a very close distance. This is certainly against the principle of human rights and the standing procedures prevailing in the force institution.
In his view, such inhuman handling of terrorists had made the people doubt over the capability of national police personnel and the public might presume that terrorists should be cracked down like that in order to cater the interest of the United States.
Jakarta, May 17 (ANTARA) - A few Muslim observers have expressed doubt about National Police Police Chief Gen. Bambang Hendarso Danuri's statement that `members of terrorist networks the police had recently broken up had planned to assassinate the president.
They said the police chief's claim was hard to believe because the extremist ideology of terrorists called for a global struggle against the United States.
KH Hasyim Muzadi, former chairman of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), the country's largest Islamic organization, said on Sunday he cast doubt on the police chief's statement that the terror network in the country had planned to attack President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
"I don't believe that the terror network in Indonesia has the target to assassinate SBY (Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono)," said Muzadi in his capacity as president of the World Conference on Religions for Peace (WCRP).
Hasyim, who is also chief of the Al Hikam Islamic boarding school in Depok, West Java, said it seemed to him that terrorists had no business with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
What was more, the statement came from the police and not from arrested terror suspects, he said.
He expressed regret over the act of police officers who had shot dead people suspected of involvement in terror networks.
"The police have arrogantly shot dead terror suspects without asking them whether or not they were terrorists," he said.
These acts had ruined the past achievement of the country which tried terror suspects through the court, he said.
In fact, the US which sponsored the worldwide war on terrorism had improved its method of combating terrorism, he said.
Earlier, General Danuri told a press conference last Friday that members of the terror network uncovered in Aceh recently had planned to attack the Independence Day ceremony next August 17 - an event usually attended by the president.
Danuri said the police learned about their plan from documents confiscated from terror suspects arrested in Bekasi, West Java, and in Sukoharjo, Central Java, on Wednesday and Thursday.
"They planned to attack all officials attending the ceremony. All the state officials at the event would be killed, including state guests," he said.
For the purpose, the terror group had assigned a suspect named Suhardi alias Usman to take 21 firearms including a grenade launcher, he said.
According to Danuri , after the attack was successfully carried out and all state officials were killed, the terrorists would replace the country's democratic system with a system of their choice.
Sharing Muzadi's view was Duski Samad, a professor at the Imam Bonjol Institute for Islamic Studies in Padang who said the killing of terrorists recently was the same with what security forces had done against Dulmatin and his associates in the past.
The problem now was that why the terror suspects should be gunned down, Duski said in response to the anti-terror police personnel's raids on terrorist hideouts in Tangerang, Solo, Pamulang and other areas.
According to Duski, the policemen involved in the raids were equipped wih sophisticated rifles while the terror suspects just had short-barrel guns. But, instead of capturing them, the police tended to kill them.
"This is actually a kind of inhuman and unprofessional manner in cracking down the terrorists. The police could arrest them instead of gunning them down," he said.
In a war against terror, the people senses of religiousity and justice should remain respected by the police, Dr Sofyan Siregar, a Islamic intellectual who is a roving lecturer of the Islamic University of North Sumatra, said on Monday.
The police' way of handling the terror suspects as shown in their sweeping operations over the past few years was really unsympathetic and unprofessional.
"If the police are only able to kill terrorists, I think the gangster could also do that. It is not necessary to depend on the police," he said.
What was saddening was some residents really saw how the police killed such unarmed terror suspects under the police arrest, Sofyan said, adding this was certainly against the procedures in capturing a suspect and also violated the human rights.
The police's way of handling the terror suspects as shown in their sweeping operations over the past few years was also criticized by Abu Jibril whose son was being tried for terrorism charges.
Abu Jibril, the father of Muhammad Jibril who was sentenced of his involvement in terrorism, said the police Densus 88 anti-terror squad should not kill the terror suspects as in the Pamulang raids.
During the raid, the police personnel gunned down Dulmain, the Indonesia's most wanted terror suspect and two men believed to be his bodyguards.
The shooting of armed terrorists who did not want to surrender to the police, according to Sofyan, was okeyed. They deserved to be treated like that.
In the meantime, Police Spokesman Edward Aritonang said that the terrorists killed and captured recently were linked to a terrorist training facility discovered in Aceh province in February.
"Five were killed and one arrested," he told reporters. "We suspect they were planning to launch a terror attack within the next few weeks."
In response to Edward's statement, Sofyan said what was lamentable was that the shooting of terrorists in a very shortest distance after they were under the police's handling.
"If we quote the testimony of some witnesses living near the location of the targeted sweeping operation, the terrorists were reported to be gunned down in a very close distance. This is certainly against the principle of human rights and the standing procedures prevailing in the force institution.
In his view, such inhuman handling of terrorists had made the people doubt over the capability of national police personnel and the public might presume that terrorists should be cracked down like that in order to cater the interest of the United States.
