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13:01, June 05, 2008 |
Indonesian police have arrested three others members of a hardline group after their attacks on interfaith activists which wounded more than 20 people, a lawyer of the group Ahmad Mihdan said here Thursday.
The police arrested the three members of the Islamic Defenders' Front or FPI at their residence at Cengkareng in west Jakarta and now they were undergoing questioning by Jakarta police over the strikes.
"There are three men have been arrested in west Jakarta," Mihdan said.
The hardline group attacked against hundreds of people organized by the National Alliance for Freedom of Religion and Faith when they marched to celebrate the birthday of the country's principle of life known as Pancasila in a park at the capital of Jakarta.
Indonesia is the biggest Muslim country with some 87 percent of its 240 million population are Muslims. Most of them are moderate, but the rest of radical is vocal and militant.
Source:Xinhua
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