According to the Jakarta Post the 27 men were released on Saturday as the police found out that in fact the march was legal after all.
However the leader of the group, Muhammad Mukmin, has said his men will keep trying to hand out the questionnaires to westerners in Bandung. Anyone found to be “hostile toward Islam” will be ordered out of Indonesia, he said.
The police have vowed to prevent the militants from accosting foreigners. Bandung Police chief Edmon Ilya said:
They do not have any authority to do this. If they were allowed to just do what they liked, everybody would be able to do whatever they wished as well. The security of foreign tourists must be ensured to prevent our image from being tarnished internationally.
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