Jakarta (ANTARA News) - National Police Chief Spokesman Insp Gen Abubakar Nataprawira said on Thursday the nine teror suspects arrested in South Sumatra during the past two days had links with terror networks in Singapore and wanted top terror suspect Noordin M Top.
In Singapore, the networks included the group of Mas Slamet Kastari (Singapore national). Kastari (45) escaped from a jail on Whitley Street, Singapore, some time ago.
He had been held since 2006 on charges of terror offenses, namely planning an attack on government buildings, airport and foreign representative offices in Singapore in 2001.
Kastari was also once detained in Indonesia in 2003 for an immigration law violation. After walking free in 2006, he was extradited to Singapore.
Abubakar said the South Sumatra networks were known to have links with the Singapore rings after police arrested a suspect identfied as HM (35) in Sekayu sub district, Musi Banyuasin district, South Sumatra, on June 28, 2008.
"The police arrested MH after they obtained a tipoff from Singapore that he was involved in terror activities in that country," Abubakar said.
After obtaining information from MH, police arrested nine other suspects, namely AT alias M alias K alias I (35), SG alias S alias R (22), AM alias Z (26), W alias Y alias R (35), AG alias G (36), HP alias H (25), AS alias AH alias UG (42), SA alias AB and AMT alias AT.
The nine terror suspects who were arrested on Wednesday by anti-terror police in Palembang were at 9 am on Thursday flown to Jakarta.
Tightly escorted by police officers, the nine men were herded into a police aircraft at Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport in Palembang.
The nine were rounded up in anti-terror raids conducted in Palembang on Tuesday and Wednesday.
In a raid on a house on Jalan Papera, police discovered and seized eight partly-assembled bombs and 13 fully built-up bombs, and 50 kilogram of explosive materials.
The police left the house belonging to the late Rustam Alamsyah in a mess as they had to search the house intensively before finding the dangerous objects and materials hidden in the house`s loft.(*)
In Singapore, the networks included the group of Mas Slamet Kastari (Singapore national). Kastari (45) escaped from a jail on Whitley Street, Singapore, some time ago.
He had been held since 2006 on charges of terror offenses, namely planning an attack on government buildings, airport and foreign representative offices in Singapore in 2001.
Kastari was also once detained in Indonesia in 2003 for an immigration law violation. After walking free in 2006, he was extradited to Singapore.
Abubakar said the South Sumatra networks were known to have links with the Singapore rings after police arrested a suspect identfied as HM (35) in Sekayu sub district, Musi Banyuasin district, South Sumatra, on June 28, 2008.
"The police arrested MH after they obtained a tipoff from Singapore that he was involved in terror activities in that country," Abubakar said.
After obtaining information from MH, police arrested nine other suspects, namely AT alias M alias K alias I (35), SG alias S alias R (22), AM alias Z (26), W alias Y alias R (35), AG alias G (36), HP alias H (25), AS alias AH alias UG (42), SA alias AB and AMT alias AT.
The nine terror suspects who were arrested on Wednesday by anti-terror police in Palembang were at 9 am on Thursday flown to Jakarta.
Tightly escorted by police officers, the nine men were herded into a police aircraft at Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport in Palembang.
The nine were rounded up in anti-terror raids conducted in Palembang on Tuesday and Wednesday.
In a raid on a house on Jalan Papera, police discovered and seized eight partly-assembled bombs and 13 fully built-up bombs, and 50 kilogram of explosive materials.
The police left the house belonging to the late Rustam Alamsyah in a mess as they had to search the house intensively before finding the dangerous objects and materials hidden in the house`s loft.(*)
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