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Jakarta Post (5/15/2001 2:32:28 PM)
Laskar Jihad chief takes National Police to court
JAKARTA (Agencies): A leader of the militant Laskar Jihad Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah Muslim group took the Indonesian police to court on Tuesday, alleging that his arrest and detention since May 4 was unlawful.
Some 300 supporters of Ja'far Umar Thalib, leader of the Java-based Laskar Jihad, attended the tightly-guarded South Jakarta District Court.
They greeted each article of his legal action with cries of Allahu Akbar (Allah is great)".
His lawyers demanded that the court "declare the plaintiff's arrest, based on an arrest warrant carried out by National Police Headquarters, unlawful and legally flawed, and therefore the plaintiff should be released", AFP reported.
The court was also asked to declare the detention legally flawed since it was based on an illegal arrest.
The lawyers demanded a halt to the questioning of Ja'far by police and his immediate release from jail.
They said that the court should also order the police to issue a written apology to Ja'far which should be published on the front page of three major dailies in the capital.
Ja'far is currently detained at the National Police (Polri) Headquarters here after being arrested in Surabaya, East Java, on May 4.
Police have charged him with "public display of contempt and hatred toward a particular religious group" and "negligence causing the death of another person".
The second accusation referred to the execution by stoning of a Laskar Jihad member, sentenced under Islamic law after being found guilty of adultery in Ambon earlier this year.
Each charge carries a maximum sentence of five years imprisonment.
Five police lawyers, who took turns in reading their defense, said that the arrest was legal because it followed reports from police dating as far back as February, as well as the deposition of a witness to the stoning.
"The move to arrest the plaintiff is legal because it is based on substantial initial evidence," the police defense read.
The police said that, based on the evidence, the detention and questioning of Ja'far were also legal.
Judge Syamsul Ali said that the court would resume its hearing on Wednesday.
Conflict between Christians and Muslims erupted in Ambon in January 1999 and spread rapidly to other islands in the Malukus, otherwise known as the Spice Islands.
The Laskar Jihad sent hundreds of Muslim youths with paramilitary training to the Malukus on what they claimed were humanitarian missions. More than 4,000 people have died in the bloody communal conflict over the past two years.
Based on documented reports, foreign and local rights activists have said the Laskar Jihad joined the fighting there and had, in some cases, been supported by government troops.
More than half a million of Maluku's three million inhabitants have fled their homes for refugee camps or other islands in the wake of the bloodshed.
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