Jakarta – The Islam Defenders Front (FPI) says it was not behind the Tuesday attacks on three churches and the court building in Temanggung, Central Java.

"Our organization has one command system; and there was no order to go [to Temanggung]," FPI Central Java-Yogyakarta branch chief Bambang Tedi said Wednesday as quoted by tempointeraktif.com.

Bambang denied allegations that the group was involved in the attacks, reiterating that the FPI had sent no one to Temanggung and that it would punish anyone found committing actions not approved by the organization's leaders.

He added that the FPI always reported its activities to the police before it went ahead with them, and that it obeyed existing laws and never committed acts of anarchy.

If there was no response from police and its warnings were ignored, the FPI would take "firm action", Bambang said.