REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA -- The former Indonesian president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, was reported to the Criminal Investigation Unit of the National Police, on suspected religious blasphemy case. The police said it would be followed up as other reports. 

The National Police Chief, Gen. Tito Karnavian, said the report would certainly be followed up by investigators. As the report in general, the process would begin from the investigation.

"Every report, we certainly would do an investigation. This is the attempt of the police to search for and to find whether an incident included into a criminal case or not," said Tito at the Police Staff College (PTIK), South Jakarta, Wednesday.

Tito said, if in the process of investigation, strong evidence were found, the investigator could raise the status to the investigation. In this level, the investigator should find out the suspects of the case. "But if in the investigation process no evidence was found, the police cannot raise it. The examination would be stopped there. Once more, we do the investigation to determine whether the report made by the complainant were indicated to be criminal or not," he said.

As information, the Chairman of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDIP) was suspected of doing religious blasphemy in her speech, in the PDIP 44th anniversary on January 10, 2017. Mega was reported by the Children of the Nation Alliance on Monday (January 23) with allegation insulting Muslims' pillars of faith, especially regarding the faith in the final days.

In her political speech, Megawati said, "The leader who embrace closed ideology positioned themselves as the messenger of self fullfilling prophecy, the fortune-teller. They eloquently predicted what will definitely happened in the future, including the life after the mortal world. In fact, they themselves have never seen it.

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