Farouk Arnaz – Police have still not arrested any suspects a month after Muslim hard-liners broke up a meeting because they claimed it was a communist gathering, a legislator said on Friday.

"Investigations are going painfully slowly," Ribka Tjiptaning Proletariati, of the Indonesian Democratic Party for Struggle (PDI-P), said after being questioned as a witness in the case.

"Not a single suspect has been named by the police. It's not just the FPI [Islam Defenders Front] that needs to be punished. The police must also be punished because they did nothing to prevent the FPI from threatening legislators and breaking up the meeting."

The June 24 meeting, called by PDI-P legislators Ribka and Rieke Dyah Ayu Pitaloka in Banyuwangi, East Java, was disrupted by as many as 15 members of the Islamic Ummah Forum because they believed it was a communist gathering. The FPI is alleged to have incited the raid.

The incident was reported to the police and has led to numerous calls from individuals and political organizations to disband hard-line groups.

Ribka presented as evidence video recordings to back her claims that the local police did not lift a hand to prevent the hard-liners from using force to break up the meeting.

Ribka, chairwoman of the House of Representatives' Commission IX overseeing health, and commission member Rieke had been meeting with locals to inform them about free health care services when the members of the Islamic Ummah Forum barged in and demanded the meeting end and the participants, most of whom were from families affiliated in the past to the banned Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), disperse.

"That meeting had nothing to do with the spread of communism," Ribka said.

The police have denied accusations that they have not done enough to prevent hard-line groups, including the FPI, from conducting illegal raids to intimidate others.

A number of rights groups, including Islamic organizations, have urged the police not to tolerate religious hard-liners, which they say use violence and intimidation under the guise of piety.

"We are worried about several recent incidents and the fact that the police have not done anything to stop the violence and uphold the law, no matter which group is involved," said Usman Hamid, a coordinator from the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence (Kontras).

The FPI has continued to deny any involvement in the raid.