"The team is intended to supervise, ensure and guarantee that a due legal process is carried out," a member of Commission III, Sufmi Dasco Ahmad, stated here on Tuesday.
Ahmad remarked that no one will be allowed to interfere in the legal process as it can lead to injustice.
"As a result, people will be able to believe that it is possible to enforce law and achieve justice," he added.
He observed that the riot had defiled the purpose of the peaceful demonstration.
Police had earlier arrested and is questioning 25 people suspected to be provocateurs and looters. They were picked up in connection with the rioting that happened after the peaceful demonstration ended on Friday.
"Ten people were being questioned as alleged provocateurs involved in the incident that happened on the Medan Merdeka Barat Street," Inspector General Boy Rafli Amar, head of the public relations division of Indonesia Police, informed a press conference here on Saturday.
The suspects, aged between 16 and 31 years, had come from various regions outside the Java city as well as from West Nusa Tenggara.
Boy pointed out that the police had also arrested another 15 people for looting a mini-market in Luar Batang, Penjaringan, North Jakarta, exploiting the attention claimed by the demonstration.
"We have found that their actions were purely criminal. Certainly, some mastermind must have mobilized them. Their motive certainly was not demonstration but going to jail," he noted.
These people, residents of the fishing neighborhoods in Muara Baru, were confirmed as not being part of any Islamic organizations that had called for the demonstration at the Monas (National Monument) and Merdeka Palace.
They spontaneously indulged in these crimes after seeing rioting in Monas and Merdeka Palace in the media.
Boy disclosed that their legal status will be determined within the next 24 hours.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
Copyright © ANTARA 2016
