Jakarta, Indonesia (News Today) - Indonesia’s counterterrorism squad arrested five terrorist suspects in West Java, a local police chief said Sunday, a day after the country’s president said he had received reports that certain groups in areas of the province intended to do him harm.
West Java police chief Insp. Gen. Sutarman said police also confiscated high explosive materials during four separate raids on Saturday in the province’s capital, Bandung, and Subang district.
On Saturday, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who was visiting Bandung, said he had received reports that certain groups in the province intended to do him harm. He did not elaborate, or refer to the arrests. On Sunday, his spokesman, Julian Aldrin Pasha, did not rule out that the suspects’ alleged target was the president.
“It could be assumed that their activities were aimed at (attacking) the presidential entourage,” Pasha said.
Sutarman said two suspects were arrested by the special anti-terror force in Sukaluyu hamlet on the outskirts of Bandung. Bomb squads had to detonate a bomb found within their house after failing to defuse it, Sutarman said. One suspect managed to escape.
Two others were arrested in Cilenyi and Padalarang districts, also on the outskirts of Bandung, Sutarman said, adding that the fifth suspect was arrested in a raid on his house in Subang district.
In May, police said they foiled a plot to assassinate the president and other top officials in Mumbai-style terrorist attacks focused on the Aug. 17 Independence Day ceremony. In August last year, police said they had evidence of a plan to assassinate Yudhoyono by detonating a car bomb close to his motorcade.
Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim nation, has battled Islamist militants with links to the Southeast Asian network Jemaah Islamiyah since the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people, most of them foreign tourists.
Source : kompas
Monday, August 9, 2010
Indonesia's Anti-Terror Police Arrest 5 Suspects
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