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Bomb maker still at large, police pursue
The National Police's counterterrorism unit Densus 88 launched a manhunt for a 23-year-old bomb maker, identified only by the initials SI, in connection with a planned terror attack on the Myanmar Embassy in Jakarta
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he National Police's counterterrorism unit Densus 88 launched a manhunt for a 23-year-old bomb maker, identified only by the initials SI, in connection with a planned terror attack on the Myanmar Embassy in Jakarta.
"SI allegedly helped to assemble the bombs," National Police spokesperson Brig. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said on Monday in Jakarta.
It is alleged SI -- along with two accomplices Sefa Riano, 28, and Achmad Taufiq, 29 -- prepared five bombs for the assault, which was planned to avenge the persecution of the Rohingya, a Muslim ethnic group in Myanmar.
Sefa and Taufiq were apprehended on Thursday while they were traveling on a motorbike along Jl. Sudirman, Central Jakarta. Densus 88 confiscated a backpack containing five bombs.
After the arrest, the counterterrorism squad questioned Syaripah, Sefa's wife, and searched his rented house on Jl. Bangka, South Jakarta.
"Our forensic team found chemical substances, batteries and bullet projectiles. We believe that those were used as bomb components," Boy said.
In an effort to locate SI, four members of SI's family in Pamulang in South Tangerang, Banten, had been questioned. Boy shrugged off speculation that the three suspects were linked to major cells. "They had no criminal records. This is the first time they had committed criminal acts," Boy said.
