Jakarta – Police have interrogated Permadi, a politician from the Great Indonesia Movement (Gerindra) Party and a well-known psychic, as a witness in an alleged plot against the government involving a group of senior politicians, activists and ex-army generals, who were arrested en masse earlier this month.

Permadi was brought in to the Jakarta Police headquarters on Friday (16/12) to explain his involvement with senior politician and activist Sri Bintang Pamungkas, one of the alleged plotters.

"I have been made a witness in the case against Sri Bintang Pamungkas," Permadi told the press after the interrogation.

Permadi said he had never attended any meeting with the alleged plotters, "People who say I have joined these so-called plotters couldn't be more wrong," he added.

Permadi claimed he was ill and had to stay at home when the plotters allegedly met in a series of meetings to discuss their plan. However, he admitted to joining a meeting at the Bung Karno University in Central Jakarta.

"I was at that meeting to discuss the 1945 Constitution. We need to return it to the original version [without amendments]," Permadi said.

Police said the meeting could be considered an act of treason. "If that's what the police think, I can't do anything about it. Ever since I became a member of the MPR [People's Consultative Assembly], I have always rejected the amendments [on the constitution]," Permadi said.

According to the always black-clad psychic, no one had planned a plot against the government at the meeting. "If trying to return [the 1945 Constitution] to its original version is an act of treason, then so be it," he added.

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