Rangga Prakoso & Gita Aqso – The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI)'s aggressive efforts to "defend" Islam have won it growing notoriety, but the hard-line group apparently doesn't consider a graft-ridden Koran procurement project important enough to make a fuss about.

The Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) announced on Friday that it had named two suspects in the graft case surrounding the Rp 35 billion ($3.75 million) project of the Religious Affairs Ministry.

They are Zulkarnaen Djabar, a Golkar Party lawmaker and a member of the House of Representatives' Commission VIII overseeing religious affairs, and the president director of KSAI, the company that handled the project, identified only as D.P.

In a break from recent campaigns embarked upon in the name of Islam, the FPI doesn't seem to have had its feathers ruffled in this particular instance – a corruption case that has angered many Muslims here, including Indonesia's second largest Muslim organization, Muhammadiyah.

"This is not a religious issue. It is not the holy book that is being corrupted," FPI spokesman Munarman said in Jakarta on Friday when asked about his organization's opinion on the graft case. "There is nothing special. It is just another corruption case; just eradicate it," he added.

The statement comes as a surprise, given that the FPI has been notorious for aggressively raiding nightclubs, rejecting "vulgar" performances of entertainers – including US singer Lady Gaga – and engaging in other thug-like activities against what they consider threats to morals and attempts to taint Islam.

Muhammadiyah secretary Agung Danarto slammed the alleged corruption on Friday, saying, "They [the perpetrators] can't even differ between that which is sacred and which is not; this is very saddening." (BeritaSatu/JG)