"I will soon report it to Komnas HAM and probably also to the National Police Commission (Kompolnas) as well as other related institutions," Wahyu Nandang Hernawan of YLBHI stated during a press conference here, Tuesday.
The arrest violated the existing law, he pointed out.
Secretary General of AGRA Mohamad Ali noted that the arrest took place on Monday, at 3:30 p.m. local time, when 26 AGRA activists from 17 provinces were on their way to the US embassy for holding a rally.
The 18 activists were taken to the Jakarta Police Headquarters by a truck. After being grilled by the police officers, they were released at 9 p.m. local time.
The police asked them to sign a statement promising that they would not hold a rally again, but they refused to sign it.
Ali said they had intended to stage a rally in front of the US embassy since they considered that the ongoing Asian-African Conference 2015 deviated from the spirit of the first Asian-African Conference held in 1955 in Bandung that advocated anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism.
AGRA rejected any intervention by the United States in the Asian-African Conference being held in Jakarta from April 19 to 23, 2015.
"Foreign investment will pose a threat to the farmers land," he pointed out.(*)
Editor: Heru Purwanto
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