INDONESIA: ANGRY MOB OF FUNDAMENTALIST MOSLEMS RAMPAGE THROUGH EXCLUSIVE JARKARTA SUBURB ATTACKING PUBS AND RESTAURANTS

Record ID: 628997

  • Title: INDONESIA: ANGRY MOB OF FUNDAMENTALIST MOSLEMS RAMPAGE THROUGH EXCLUSIVE JARKARTA SUBURB ATTACKING PUBS AND RESTAURANTS
  • Date: 23rd June 2000
  • Summary: JAKARTA, INDONESIA (JUNE 23, 2000) (REUTERS) WIDE MOSLEMS TRASHING WINDOWS OF RESTAURANT MV MOB TEARING DOWN BLINDS (2 SHOTS) MV MOB SMASHING DOOR WITH POLES (2 SHOTS) MV/SLV MEN CARRYING BEER CRATES OUTSIDE BAR/RESTAURANT (3 SHOTS) WIDE OF MEN WALKING OUT, SMASHING BEER BOTTLES SLV MOB FORCING THEMSELVES IN TO ANOTHER RESTAURANT SLV MOB RUNNING ON STREET TOWARDS BEER SIG
  • Embargoed: 8th July 2000 13:00
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  • Location: JAKARTA, INDONESIA
  • Country: Indonesia
  • Topics: Crime,Politics,Religion,Religion
  • Reuters ID: LVACB6YKUZUUA9CU9OQAS1S2PM7Q
  • Story Text: An angry mob of Fundamentalist Molsems has rampaged
    through an exclusive Jakarta suburb, attacking pubs, discos
    and restaurants.



    The mob, chanting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and
    wearing white shirts and white Islamic caps, smashed
    shopfronts, beer signs and beer bottles with bamboo sticks and
    iron bars in the residential suburb of Kemang.

    The plush southern suburb is home to many foreign
    families.

    The group had earlier attacked the human rights commission
    headquarters, protesting over the slow pace of an investigation
    into a massacre of Moslems in Jakarta in the 1980s.

    The action was organised by the Defenders of Islam Front.

    Dozens of police stood by as the mob attacked businesses
    along the main street through the suburb.

    Hardline Moslem groups have trashed and torched scores of
    bars and discos in and around Jakarta in recent months.

    But Friday's rampage was the first attack on such a
    prominent and central area, home to so many foreigners and
    wealthy Indonesians.

    Thousands of expatriates fled during the political and
    social turmoil that swept Indonesia in 1998 and the country is
    still struggling to convince foreign executives and investors
    to return to help resurrect the battered economy.
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