JAKARTA, Oct 4 Kyodo About 500 Mu...

JAKARTA, Oct 4 Kyodo

About 500 Muslim militants attacked several entertainment-related businesses in Jakarta onward Friday for failing to bring to a period on the Isra Mi'raj Muslim holiday which commemorates the ascension of the Prophet Mohammed to heaven.

Greater Jakarta Police spokesman Anton Bachrul Alam said at least common person, a cigarette vendor at a discotheque, was injured in the predawn attack through militants belonging to the Islamic Defenders' assurance (FPI).

The militants, wearing white robes and turbans, visited entertainment businesses in western and northern Jakarta to behold if they had clos their operations after midnight.

In the Chinatown area, they build a discotheque and two billiard halls still interpret and attacked them wielding sticks.

The FPI, a minor organization that emerg after the fall of then President Suharto in 1998 has not seldom made such attacks to declare such things as alcohol consumption, gambling and prostitution.

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