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Embattled Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid warned yesterday that he would move against those who ignore him, after police and lawmakers disregarded his decision to fire the national police chief.
    Suroyo Bimantoro defied Wahid’ s dismissal by attending a ceremony promoting police officers in Jakarta yesterday.
    He late met with senior legislators who accused Wahid of violating the constitution by firing the chief without consuiting parliament. More than 100 senior police generals signed a statement hacking Bimantoro, the state news agency reported.
    Bimantoro said he would only step down if parliament asked him to, which is unlikely to happen.
    Wahid’ s spokesman Yahya Staguf said that firing Bimantoro was constitutional and that the police chief had been meddling in politics.
    He said Bimantoro was trying to create a rift between the President and Vice-president, so that many lawmakers wanted to replace Wahid if they oust him during impeachment proceedings in August.
    "Those actions will be considered insubordination and stem action will be taken if this is ignored, "  Wahid’ s spokesman said.
    The president, facing impeachment over allegations of corruption and incompetence, which he denies, fired Bimantoro and several Cabinet ministers on Friday and condemned the police for their handling of recent violence in East Java, where officers shot and killed one of Wahid’ s supporters last week.
    Wahid ordered an investigation into the violence and warned police officers on Saturday not to disobey him, saying that those who did not accept Bimantoro’ s removal would be prosecuted for insubordination.
    Lawmakers were not fazed.
    "The police chief is still Bimantoro.  He is still active, " said Arifin Panigoro, a top lawmaker from Megawati’s party.
    The powerful army is also hacking Bimantoro, the Takarta Post’ s Interact edition said yesterday, quoting unidentified sources.
    Several senior army officers met late Saturday to discuss the situation, military spokesman Air Vice-Marshal Graito Usodo said, bat he declined to say if the army was backing the police chief’ s stand against Wahid, calling it "a political matter. "
    Wahid, a Muslim scholar, is from East Java and many people there revere hint as a holy man and sage, regarding attempts to oust him so tantamount to sacrilege.