Jakarta – Dozens of people grouped under a group known as Kendal Community Solidarity for the victims of the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) violence, staged a mass rally on Tuesday demanding the FPI to disband, as they deemed the Islamic hard-line group to have acted arrogantly as vigilantes.

The group asked the police to arrest FPI Central Java branch representative Sihabudin and bring him to trial for committing a series of violent acts.

Rally coordinator Erwin Pasule then cited the latest clash between the FPI and Sukorejo residents and said the FPI's charge that the clash had been orchestrated by local hoodlums was untrue.

"Those who were involved in the clash were local residents who had had enough of the FPI's violence," he said as quoted by kompas.com.(fan/dic)