Jakarta: Dozens of Islamic Jihad Front (FJI) members visited the Al Fatah Islamic boarding school for transgender students in Sayangan hamlet, Kotagede district, Yogyakarta, with the school pledging not to bow to acts of intimidation.
“We just wanted to check whether they were conducting deviant acts. We wanted to straighten it out,” FJI commander Abu Hamdan told journalists upon finding the school empty after the students were evacuated by police for security reasons.
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