Former TNI commander Gatot Nurmantyo is grateful that several of our activists have been arrested: no need to commiserate

JAKARTA, KOMPAS TV – Former TNI commander, General (retired) Gatot Nurmantyo, spoke out on the arrest of several activists from the Coalition for Action to Save Indonesia (WE).

Gatot, who is also the United States Presidium, said his party asked the public not to feel sorry for the American figures and activists who were arrested by police.

In addition, Gatot said, the public should also not worry about the arrests of several activists who are still being held at the Police Criminal Investigation Unit.

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On the other hand, Gatot invited the public to be grateful for the incident. The American activists who were arrested, Gatot said, were fighters, not Karbitan.

“Don’t make a fuss about our friends who are being held in Bareskrim. They are all non-Karbitan fighters,” Gatot said in Jakarta on Wednesday (10/14/2020).

Gatot explained that the formation of the American movement in Indonesia was indeed high-risk. Even when OUR members may be arrested.