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Jakarta, CNN Indonesia –
Former DKI Jakarta Governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama aka Oh, okay claimed to have received news of the planned return of the Imam of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) Rizieq Shihab to Indonesia on Tuesday (11/10). The president commissioner of PT Pertamina (Persero) also welcomed Rizieq’s return.
“Welcome back to our homeland,” Ahok told CNNIndonesia.com via short message on Wednesday (11/4).
Ahok and Rizieq have an unhappy relationship. Rizieq, who led a wave of anti-Ahok actions because he was seen as insulting Islam after quoting verse 51 of Al Maidah in late 2016.
The wave of anti-Ahok actions that began in October 2016 was driven by various Islamic organizations such as the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), the Forum of the Islamic Community (FUI) and the Muslim Brotherhood of Indonesia (Parmusi).
They demanded that Ahok, who was then governor of DKI, be legally tried.
After being named a suspect and brought to court, Ahok was found guilty of religious blasphemy. The politician PDI-Perjuangan was sentenced to two years in prison for violating article 156a of the Penal Code on blasphemy.
In the middle of the Ahok case, Rizieq was caught in several cases, one of which was the alleged pornographic content on Polda Metro Jaya. He also left Indonesia in mid-2017.
Since then, Rizieq has been temporarily living in Saudi Arabia.
Before leaving the country in 2017, he was one of the most vocal in demanding that Ahok be tried in a religious blasphemy case.
The speech about Rizieq’s return to Indonesia has been raised repeatedly. This announcement of his return was recorded to be the seventh since he left for Saudi Arabia in April 2017.
However, until Ahok was released and returned to office in government circles, Rizieq did not return home, although he often expressed his desire to return to Indonesia.
Most recently, Rizieq said he would return to Indonesia on November 10 from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
“God willing, my family and I on Monday November 2020 at 09:30 Saudi time will fly from Jeddah airport with Saudi Arabia Airlines flight number SV 816,” Rizieq said in a statement broadcast on the YouTube channel. Front TV, on Wednesday (4/11).
Rizieq said the plane he was traveling on was expected to arrive at 09:00 WIB at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Terminal 3 on Tuesday (11/10). Rizieq admitted that he would go directly to his home in Petamburan, in central Jakarta.
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