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Four arrested, two being hunted in Jakarta bombing plot
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On alert: Police personnel guard a neighborhood in Bekasi, West Java, on Saturday after the National Police’s Densus 88 counterterrorism squad found a high explosive bomb in one of the houses in the area, along with a woman who was allegedly designated to detonate the bomb at the State Palace compound in Jakarta. (Antara/Risky Andrianto)
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he National Police announced on Sunday that they had now arrested four suspects linked to a plot to bomb a major target, believed to be the State palace, in Jakarta.
Speaking in a press briefing, National Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Awi Setiyono said the National Police’s Densus 88 counterterrorism squad had arrested a man in Karanganyar, Central Java, on Saturday evening, in addition to two separate arrest operations in Bekasi, West Java, several hours earlier.
“The four suspects received instructions from BN to create a small terrorist cell,” Awi said, referring to the initials of Muhammad Bahrun Naim Anggih Tamtomo, aka Bahrun Naim, a leader of the Katibah Nusantara militant group, a regional affiliate of the Islamic State (IS) movement.
(Read also: Suspects in plot to bomb State Palace part of IS-affiliated network)
Densus 88 arrested on Saturday two men and a woman in Bekasi, West Java, for allegedly plotting a bomb attack at the State Palace in Central Jakarta.
The first two suspects, identified only as MNS (previously identified as NS) and AS, were arrested at around 3:40 p.m. on Saturday on the Kalimalang overpass, while another suspect, a 27-year-old woman identified only as DYN, was arrested 10 minutes later in a rented house in Bintara Jaya subdistrict.
In the house, the police found a high-explosive bomb weighing around 3 kilograms packed into a pressure cooker.
The fourth suspect, a man identified as S, was arrested in Karanganyar at around 6:30 p.m.
Awi said the police were also hunting another suspect other than Bahrun Naim in the case.
Awi said the bomb had been made by MNS and S in Karanganyar and delivered to Jakarta on Saturday in a rented car by MNS and AS.
AS, meanwhile, was initially set to drop DYN in Jakarta on Sunday morning where she would carry out a suicide attack, Awi said.
In January, a terrorist attack on Jl. MH Thamrin, Central Jakarta, left four terrorists and four civilians dead, and more than 25 injured. It was allegedly masterminded by Bahrun Naim. (hwa)
