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MINISTER TO SUMMON N SUMATRA GOVERNOR OVER COUNCILOR`S DEATH
Jakarta, Feb 4 (ANTARA) - Home Affairs Minister Mardiyanto said he will summon North Sumatra Governor Syamsul Arifin over the death of the provincial legislative council's chairman in a violent rally in Medan on Tuesday.
The rally was staged by people demanding the administrative transformation of Tapanuli district into a province.
Speaking to the press on the sidelines of a working meeting with the House of Representatives (DPR)'s Commission on domestic administration and regional autonomy affairs on Wednesday, Mardiyanto said his meeting with the North Sumatra governor would take place on Thursday.
The minister said he would ask the governor to clarify various issues surrounding the violent rally and discuss the question of what measures the government would take with regard to the case.
In this connection, Mardiyanto said he had assigned the ministry's director general of national unity and politics, Sudarsono, to go to Medan, capital of North Sumatra province.
Up till now the ministry was still collecting facts related to the incident, he said adding the governor's clarifications would complement the facts in an effort to establish the chronology and background of the affair.
He said the ministry's analysis of the case so fas was only based on information from the police.
Thousands of people staged a rally outside the North Sumatra provincial legislative council on Tuesday asking the council to approve the elevation of Tapanuli region's administrative status to that of a province.
Apparently angered by a lack of positive response from the legislators, the demonstrators forced their way into the building where they beat up, dragged and trampled on the council's chairman, Abdul Aziz Angkat.
Police who were guarding the rally later took Angkat to a hospital where he died.
Six people have been named suspects in the violent rally after 13 witnesses were questioned from Tuesday night until Wednesday morning, National Police Chief Gen Bambang Hendarso Danuri said on Wednesday.
"Of the 13 witnesses who underwent the questioning, six were eventually named suspects and put under arrest," Danuri said adding two of the suspects refused to be questioned on the ground they had to wait for their lawyer.
Meanwhile, head of the National Police's Criminal Investigation Department, Commissioner General Susno Duaji, said the six arrested suspects were identified by their initials as CO, VS, DS, BR, GS, and PS.
"The number of suspects will probably increase because the investigation lasted from Tuesday night until Wednesday morning," Susno Duaji said.
He added that the police were still hunting a number of other people for their alleged involvement in the cace.
The rally was staged by people demanding the administrative transformation of Tapanuli district into a province.
Speaking to the press on the sidelines of a working meeting with the House of Representatives (DPR)'s Commission on domestic administration and regional autonomy affairs on Wednesday, Mardiyanto said his meeting with the North Sumatra governor would take place on Thursday.
The minister said he would ask the governor to clarify various issues surrounding the violent rally and discuss the question of what measures the government would take with regard to the case.
In this connection, Mardiyanto said he had assigned the ministry's director general of national unity and politics, Sudarsono, to go to Medan, capital of North Sumatra province.
Up till now the ministry was still collecting facts related to the incident, he said adding the governor's clarifications would complement the facts in an effort to establish the chronology and background of the affair.
He said the ministry's analysis of the case so fas was only based on information from the police.
Thousands of people staged a rally outside the North Sumatra provincial legislative council on Tuesday asking the council to approve the elevation of Tapanuli region's administrative status to that of a province.
Apparently angered by a lack of positive response from the legislators, the demonstrators forced their way into the building where they beat up, dragged and trampled on the council's chairman, Abdul Aziz Angkat.
Police who were guarding the rally later took Angkat to a hospital where he died.
Six people have been named suspects in the violent rally after 13 witnesses were questioned from Tuesday night until Wednesday morning, National Police Chief Gen Bambang Hendarso Danuri said on Wednesday.
"Of the 13 witnesses who underwent the questioning, six were eventually named suspects and put under arrest," Danuri said adding two of the suspects refused to be questioned on the ground they had to wait for their lawyer.
Meanwhile, head of the National Police's Criminal Investigation Department, Commissioner General Susno Duaji, said the six arrested suspects were identified by their initials as CO, VS, DS, BR, GS, and PS.
"The number of suspects will probably increase because the investigation lasted from Tuesday night until Wednesday morning," Susno Duaji said.
He added that the police were still hunting a number of other people for their alleged involvement in the cace.
