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View all search resultsDensus 88 arrests one terrorist suspect in North Sumatra, three in West Sumatra
,The four suspects used social media as the main vehicle to spread violent ideology and entice other people to get involved in terrorism, Densus 88 said.
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Former members of Jamaah Islamiyah (JI) perform asar (afternoon) prayers on the sidelines of an event held to declare the disbandment of the terrorist group at the Convention Hall of the Tirtonadi terminal in Surakarta, Central Java, on Dec. 21, 2024. Some 1,200 former JI members from the greater Surakarta area, as well as 6,800 members from other parts of the country participating in the event online, declared their readiness to rejoin the Unitary State of the Republic of Indonesia. (Antara/Mohammad Ayudha)
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team from the National Police’s Counterterrorism Special Detachment 88 (Densus 88) has apprehended a man suspected of being a terrorist at his rented house in Tanjung Balai city, North Sumatra, on Monday, while three other suspects were arrested in West Sumatra.
The man, identified only as RR, was taken into custody without any resistance on Jl. Suka Jadi, RT (neighborhood unit) II, Pahan subdistrict. RR is suspected of being involved in a terrorism network in the West Sumatra provincial capital of Padang.
RT II head Aziz Muslim said the Densus 88 team arrested RR as he bought breakfast near his house at 8:15 a.m. RR was taken to his house for a search.
Aziz said the Densus 88 team seized several items during the search, including a camouflage vest, a book on the Islamic Caliphate, a cape, a hat and the logo of the Islamic State (IS) movement.
“Those things were seized from RR’s rental house. The information given was that RR is suspected of being involved in a Padang terrorist network,” Aziz said after witnessing the search.
He said that RR and his wife had stayed in the rental house for about two years. During that period, they did not socialize with their neighbors.
“They have never socialized, they even did not report their presence to me as RT head,” he said.
