Neta took example of recent violence Pandeglang, Banten province, last Feb 7 where mobs attacked Ahmadiyah minority Islamic sect followers and killed three and six others injured. He hoped police would soon reveal those responsible for the attack.
On Feb 11, only five days after the sectarian violence in Pandeglang district that claimed at least three lives, Banten police chief Brig.Gen.Agus Kusnadi was replaced by Brig Gen Putut Bayu Sena, Banten provincial police`s spokesman Adjunct Senior Commissioner Gunawan said recently.
Besides Agus, the chief of the Pandeglang district police and the director of the Banten l police`s intelligence division had also been replaced, he said.
"The replacements have been confirmed by a National Police Headquarters` telegram that we received on Friday," he said.
In connection with Sunday`s incident that killed at least three Ahmadiyah followers in Umbulan village, Cikeusik subdistrict, Pandeglang district, Banten province, police investigators had questioned a number of local police officers.
Among them were outgoing Banten police chief Brig.Gen.Agus Kusnadi, chief of the Pandeglang district police Adjunct Senior Commissioner Alex Fauzi Rasyad and Director of Banten police intelligence division Senior Commissioner Adityawarman.
The police investigators had also named four new suspects in the Cikeusik incident. They were only identified as KE, KM, KMH, and YA alias I. The police had previously named UJ as a suspect.
In Sunday`s attack, at least three Ahmadiyah followers who believed to be Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, founder of the sect in 1889, as a prophet after Muhammad (peace be upon him), were killed.
In the meantime, Muslim scholars or ulemas in Aceh province have supported the disbandment of Ahmadiyah as one of the options offered by Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma Ali.
"We support the disbandment of Ahmadiyah as offered by Minister Suryadharma Ali on the ground that the teaching of Ahmadiyah is heretic and misleading," Secretary General of the Aceh Ulemas Association (HUDA),Faisal Ali,said.
He said the disbandment was the best of three options offered by the religious affairs minister because it could prevent undesired things from happening in Indonesia in the future.
Faisal Ali said the government should protect religions that had been recognized by the state, and Ahmadiyah teachings were blasphemous to Islam which was the religion of the vast majority of the Indonesian population.
"Unless disbanded, I would like to suggest that Ahmadiyah declare itself as a religion apart from Islam and stop using Islamic symbols such as mosques," he said.(*)
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