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Indonesians suspected of links to IS still free from charges
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Members of the National Police's anti terror squad Densus 88 raid a house of alleged terrorists in Batam, Riau Islands province on Aug. 5. (Antara/M. N. Kanwa)
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ndonesian citizens who were detained by the National Police's Densus 88 anti-terror squad upon their return from Turkey still remain free from being charged as suspects for their alleged links to the Islamic State (IS), a top official with the National Police says.
National Police spokesperson Insp. Gen. Boy Rafli Amar said the investigators could not charge former Finance Ministry mid-ranking official Triyono Utomo and his wife Nur Khofifah, who last week got reported by Turkish authorities, for allegedly trying to join IS in war-torn Syria.
The probe into 17 Indonesian citizens, including eight women, who had been detained by Densus 88 upon their arrival from Turkey on Jan. 21 at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Banten, has not proven the allegations that the citizens had helped IS in Syria, Boy said.
(Read also: Social Affairs Ministry handles 55 Indonesian deportees linked to Islamic State)
"The preliminary result of interrogation is almost complete. However none of the deportees have been charged as suspects by the investigators," Boy told journalists on Tuesday.
Boy added that the police interrogation was ongoing regarding Triyono along with his wife Nur and their children, at the Social Affairs Ministry's shelter in Bambu Apus, East Jakarta. (dmr)
