Bandung – The hard-line Islamic Defenders Front is calling for those convicted of corruption to lose either their head or their hands, depending on the severity of the crime.

"How do people steal money, like Rp 600,000 ($67)? With their hand, right?" FPI leader Muhammad Rizieq Shihab said on Tuesday. "So their hand should be chopped off. How do corruptors steal state money, like Rp 6 trillion? With their brain, right? So the thing should be cut off is their necks."

Rizieq said that his support for the death penalty for corruption stemmed from his belief that it was an extraordinary crime that needed to stamped out in Indonesia.

"How many companies have gone bankrupt because of corruption, and how many Indonesian people have lost their jobs because they were then laid off," he said. Rizieq said that he believed enforcement efforts against corruption were weak and selective.