INDONESIAN POLICE: TWO JAD LEADERS AMONG MILITANT SUSPECTS ARRESTED
Indonesian police have arrested six
suspected militants from Islamic State-linked Jemaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD),
including two of the group’s leaders in East Java and some “closely related” to
a family behind the deadly 2018 Surabaya church bombings, a police spokesman
said Monday.The suspects were arrested by the Densus 88 police anti-terrorism
unit in separate locations in East Java between Thursday and Saturday, national
police spokesman Dedi Prasetyo told reporters.
Two of them, identified only by their
initials, H.S. and B.L., were allegedly JAD’s emirs, or leaders, for Madura and
Lamongan regencies, respectively, Dedi said. “Some of these people are very
closely related to the Surabaya bombing suspects, at least know the planning
process of the Surabaya bombings, both at the places of worship and the
Surabaya resort police attacks,” Dedi said.
He was referring to a series of attacks in
May 2018, when two families carried out suicide bombings on three churches and
a police station in Surabaya, killing 24 people, including children as young as
9 who joined their parents in the attacks. Indonesia, the world’s largest
Muslim-majority country, has been hit by a string of terrorist attacks in the
past two decades.
Attacks in recent years have been blamed on
JAD, a local militant network affiliated with Islamic State. JAD founder and
ideologue Aman Abdurrahman was sentenced to death last year for his role in
some of the attacks. The group was also declared illegal in July last year.
Dedi said H.S. and B.L. had attended
several meetings organized by JAD, including one in the East Java city of
Malang in 2014, which was also attended by Saiful Muthohir, who is serving a
nine-year sentence for a January 2016 attack in the capital Jakarta. The gun
and bomb attack in Jakarta’s central business district killed four of the
attackers and four bystanders.
Police said B.L. had taken part in military
training led by Saiful in Batu, East Java, in 2015. Three other suspects,
identified by their initials K.J., S., and I.P.S., were aware of the purchase
of firearms by Anang Rustianto, a JAD militant who was arrested in June last
year, Dedi said. A sixth suspect, identified as Y.T., was arrested after he allegedly
robbed a gold shop in East Java’s Magetan regency on Saturday. The suspect
asked for money from a gold shop attendant while pointing a toy gun and was
given 10 million rupiah (U.S. $701) by the cashier, police said.
He then left with five gold rings and three
bracelets but was arrested in the parking lot. Police seized two cans thought
to be homemade bombs, one bayonet, an airsoft gun, and two boxes of air rifle
bullets from the suspect. “There are also liquid objects that are still being
studied in the laboratory, to find out whether they contain chemicals including
TATP (triacetone triperoxide, a high explosive),” Dedi said.
Source: Benar News– 24 August 2019
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