WATCH: Protesters at anti-Ahok rally filmed verbally and physically abusing Christian woman

A disturbing video has been circulating online purportedly showing several protesters at a rally to denounce Jakarta Governor Basuki “Ahok” Purnama, held on Tuesday at the site of Ahok’s blasphemy trial, verbally and physically abusing a woman in public.

The video does not make clear why the protesters – some of whom were dressed in Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) uniforms – were harassing the unidentified woman. But the footage shows them accusing her of being one of Ahok’s pawns. They then pressured her to show them her KTP (ID card) and mocked her after finding out it identified her as a Christian.

After the woman pleaded, “Any religion is allowed, sir,” one of the FPI members pushed her head and uttered a profane word about her before the video ended.

The particular incident shown in the video seems to have slipped under the radar of the Indonesian media, but Kompas did write a news report involving the woman in the video.

As reported in Kompas, the woman was one of three people who were “questioned” by the anti-Ahok protesters, which largely consisted of members of various hardline Islamic groups under the umbrella group GNPF-MUI (National Movement to Safeguard the MUI’s Fatwa), outside of Ahok’s blasphemy trial in South Jakarta on Tuesday.

“We took three people to safety, two men and one woman,” said South Jakarta Police’s head of Operations, AKBP Donny Alexander.

Donny said that the three people got close to the protesters and took photos of them. This supposedly angered the protesters who went on to interrogate the three.

But, as it turns out, the people who were interrogated were just doing their jobs.

“After we questioned them, it turns out that they are journalists. They even showed their KTP and Press IDs,” Donny said.

The three journalists were then released by the police after questioning. There are no reports of criminal charges being filed against the protesters.

Back in 2014, a member of the FPI allegedly sexually harassed a female Tempo journalist at an anti-Ahok rally. No criminal charges were filed then either.