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Police find IS flag after arrests in Surakarta
AntaraPolice personnel found a black flag associated with the Islamic State (IS) group during their counterterrorism searches at a number of locations around the Kliwon market in Semanggi, Surakarta, a witness has said
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Police personnel found a black flag associated with the Islamic State (IS) group during their counterterrorism searches at a number of locations around the Kliwon market in Semanggi, Surakarta, a witness has said.
'The police picked me up at my home and they asked me to witness their search. I witnessed them search a musholla [small mosque] and a goat pen belonging to Yus Karman. They confiscated a black t-shirt and a black flag, with letters ISIS written on them,' said Agus Sumaryawan, the chief of neighborhood (RT) 005 in community (RW) 003 in Semanggi sub-district, on Thursday.
Yus Karman, 30, was one of the two men arrested by the National Police's counterterrorism squad, Densus 88, on suspicion of terrorism on Wednesday.
Apart from Yus Karman's house, Agus said, the police also searched the home of Sugiyanto, 35, the other suspected terrorist arrested on Wednesday, which is also located near the Kliwon market in Semanggi, Surakarta.
The police also searched several locations at RT 004/RW 003, in Semanggi. The area's community chief, Sriyono, said the police searched the home of Ika, the mother-in-law of Udin, 18, another suspected terrorist who is still at large.
Sriyono said the police were still pursuing Udin. 'Udin was working as a mobile phone credit vendor in Sangkrah. I don't know what the relationship is between Udin and the terrorism arrests. From the house of Udin's mother-in-law, the police confiscated cardboard boxes though I don't know what they contained,' said Sriyono.
He further explained that during the searches, a number of fully equipped police personnel were on guard around the search locations. The police prevented local residents from approaching the locations, as they loaded the evidence they confiscated during the search into the Surakarta Police's Indonesia Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (Inafis) vehicle. The police have not yet released any official information about the arrests and the searches. (ebf)(+++)
