Mustaqim Adamrah, Jakarta – A journalist says he is avoiding local police and has filed a complaint with the National Police claiming that the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) disrupted services at the Batak Protestant Christian Union (HKBP) Filadelfia church in Bekasi, West Java, on Sunday.

Tantowi Anwari, a member of the Association of Journalists for Diversity (Sejuk), said he filed his complaint on Sunday night, just after members of the hard-line group allegedly assaulted him.

The journalist told the police that several men under the FPI Tambun's branch allegedly detained, questioned and abused him for wearing a t-shirt that said "Say no to tyranny of the majority."

"My back was scuffed, my hair was pulled and my hands were scratched. I don't know who did what to me because it was so chaotic," Tantowi told The Jakarta Post.

"There was actually a police officer from the Tambun precinct next to me when they [the FPI] interrogated me, but he could do nothing because we were outnumbered."

The FPI's members also allegedly forced him to take off his t-shirt, as well as to produce his ID card to make sure he was a Muslim, Tantowi said.

Tantowi said he filed his report with the National Police following what he said were inaccurate statements made by Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Rikwanto.

Rikwanto previously said that Tantowi was not assaulted, but was "almost hit", because he wore a "provocative" t-shirt, and that a group of people who attacked Tantowi did not come from any particular mass organization.

Tantowi said he gave police a hospital report listing the injuries and trauma he sustained from the FPI on Sunday. "The medical record says I sustained trauma from blunt force," he said.

Tantowi said a female churchgoer, identified only as Rajagukguk, and the congregation's head, Rev. Palti Panjaitan, also filed reports with the National Police. He said one of the Public Order Agency officers (Satpol PP) allegedly "threatened" Rajagukguk should she refuse to leave.

"A group of people and a number of public order officers chased her, and one of the officers asked her if she already had kids or not," Tantowi said. "The officer said to her, 'if you don't want to leave, you may lose your life here'."

Meanwhile, Palti said he told the police about the ban his congregation had to deal with every Sunday. "The [Bekasi] administration and mass groups have banned us from praying. This is what we reported to the police," he told the Post.

Palti said that several members of the crowd shouted that he was to blame for the congregation's woes. The construction of HKBP Filadelfia's church was halted by the Bekasi administration in 2010, claiming that residents living near the church site objected to it.