All obtained during the police investigation must later get proven during court proceedingsJakarta (ANTARA) - Indonesia's national police lauded the outcomes of the National Commission on Human Rights's (Komnas HAM's) probe into the recent fatal shooting of six slain FPI members and the recommendations it had publicly announced.
The national police still awaits the commission's official letter, National Police spokesperson Insp. Gen. Raden Prabowo Argo Yuwono stated here on Friday while commenting on the commission's reported results of the investigation.
Yuwono remarked that in conducting a probe into a case, the police investigators had relied on the accounts of witnesses and suspects, as well as substantial pieces of evidence and directives.
"All obtained during the police investigation must later get proven during court proceedings," he emphasized.
The police are also probing the fatal shooting of these six members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) that occurred during an encounter between them and police officers on December 7, 2020.
However, Komnas HAM's team of investigators, who began conducting their probe into the case since the December 7, 2020, had publicly announced the final report of their investigation results on Friday.
The commission recommended that the recent fatal shooting case be tried transparently at a criminal court since the deaths of four of the six slain FPI members were categorized as a violation of human rights.
"The (fatal shooting) case cannot be handled internally. Instead, it must be resolved through a law enforcement mechanism at a criminal court," the commission's team of investigators’ head, Choirul Anam, stated at a press conference.
The commission revealed that the deaths of four of the six slain guards of the group's leader, Habib Rizieq Shihab, during an encounter at KM 50 of the Jakarta-Cikampek Toll Road on December 7, 2020, constituted a violation of human rights.
Anam asserted that the fatal shooting of the four FPI members amounted to a violation of human rights since on-duty police officers had allegedly gunned them down without making any attempt to prevent more fatalities.
Two other slain FPI members died as a result of a sideswipe collision between their car and the police vehicle on the road and an exchange of fire between them and the cops, he pointed out.
Komnas HAM has identified the executors of the slain FPI members, Anam remarked, adding that the commission had additionally recommended that a comprehensive probe be conducted over the FPI members' alleged possession of handguns.
The commission further concluded that 18 gunshot wounds were found on the bodies of the FPI members -- Muhammad Reza (20), Muhammad Suci Khadavi (21), Faiz Ahmad Syukur (22), Lutfi Hakim (25), Ahmad Sofiyan (26), and Andi Oktiawan (33).
On the day of the incident, they were involved in securing a motorcade of the group's top leader, Habib Rizieq Shihab, from the Sentul area in Bogor District.
The commission's team of investigators also found facts collected from witnesses' accounts and outcomes of their analysis on CCTV cameras and recorded conversations that several cars had tailed Shihab's motorcade starting from Sentul.
Two of the cars, identified as a black Avanza van, with registration license plate of B-1739-PWQ, and a silver Avanza van, with registration license plate of B-1278-KJD, were observed actively tailing the FPI leader's motorcade.
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