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National scene: No additional police to be dispatched to Poso
The National Police has no plans to dispatch more personnel to join Operation Tinombala, launched to capture members of the Santoso terrorist group in Central Sulawesi, police chief Gen
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he National Police has no plans to dispatch more personnel to join Operation Tinombala, launched to capture members of the Santoso terrorist group in Central Sulawesi, police chief Gen. Badrodin Haiti said on Wednesday.
Badrodin made the statement following the death of one police officer in a shoot-out with alleged members of the terror group in South Poso on Tuesday.
Two alleged members of the Santoso group died in the incident.
Police have yet to identify the two suspects and whether they were new recruits in the terror group.
The incident happened in Saigginora village at 8 p.m. on Tuesday when police stopped a car with two suspected terrorists inside.
Hundreds of Indonesian Military (TNI) special forces officers have been deployed to join the manhunt.
The elite troops joined police units, such as the Mobile Brigade and counterterrorism unit Densus 88, that had earlier joined the security operation.
Prior to Operation Tinombala, police had conducted The Camar Maleo I to IV operations, starting in January last year.
The operations failed to capture Santoso, also known as Abu Wardah, who is also believed to be the leader of the Islamic State (IS) movement in Indonesia.
