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Man arrested for calling Jakarta bombings police plot
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Workers clean and repaint fencing at the Transjakarta bus stop in Kampung Melayu, East Jakarta, on Monday following a bomb attack that caused minor damage to the premises last week. (JP/P.J.LEO)
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ational Police arrested Ahmad Rifai, 37, for allegedly spreading fake news through a Facebook post in which he said the suicide bomb attack that killed three police officers and injured 16 others in East Jakarta last week, was a police plot.
"ARP [Ahmad Rifai] is a resident of Rao Pasaman. He was apprehended by the National Police’s cybercrime squad on Sunday afternoon," National Police deputy spokesman Sr. Comr. Martinus Sitompul was quoted by tribunnews.com.
According to Martinus, ARP is an employee at an all-female Islamic boarding school in Padang Pajang Barat, West Sumatra.
Police investigators said they were delving into Rifai's motive behind his fake news spreading. (dmr)
